Joi's Amoeba Cleansing Syndrome imo stands up to Mama's Gun...and it was never released.

Joi was there from the beginning...yet she probably has more acclaim for being part of the Dungeon Family than for her solo work.

Erykah is everybody's funk queen...but what's fucking with Joi's version of "Lick"?

I think the other thing is that when he released Soul Sista, it sounded like a lot of things that were already out. We tend to focus on Brown Sugar....but "me and those dreamin' eyes" sounded like nothing else that was out....whereas "Soul Sista" 'sounds' like "Lady".

So Bilal's issue isn't the quality of his music, its a combination of stuff that wasn't released and the fact that D'Angelo was accorded the status of "first" or "trailblazer" when it comes to this genre...and Joi's fate was similar in relation to Analogue Girl...