so I apologize for misreading that part.

As for Sweetback, you're talking to a dude who actually bought their non-Sade album back in '96/97.

And it pretty much sucked outside of 'You Will Rise' with Amel Larrieux, probably because like in the case of Sade they actually got a singer engaging enough to overcome the Cinemax-After-Dark trappings of Stuart & Company's sound.

I'm more of a fan than Badu than D personally even back then but I don't begrudge anyone in the 90s to think that D would have a better career.

I can't kill her for not forseeing D choking & then becoming a drug addict who doesn't drop an album for going on 12 years after his follow-up.

This is an article based on her own opinion & observations at the time and should be treated as such.