i'm not tryna be a dick. but i'd just like to hear things from your perspective.

>But again, I'M NOT SAYING D' DOESN'T CREATE, AT ALL. I'm
>saying Bilal just does
>it way more, even to his own detriment, imo.

okay, what are some songs where bilal creates something new? i remember "second child" struck me as something quite new when i first heard it. "sometimes" too. really not getting that feeling on "a love surreal" though.

or even on a more technical level, are there any bilal songs where he uses some new chord progressions? vocal techniques/phrasings? (probably a lot there)
or some patches of his own creation?--d'angelo has been doing the latter since "brown sugar".