sorry, i disagree with you.
I'm not critiquing how good the songs "sound" or his lyrical content, but what irks me is his blatant use of other people's musical composition's. There's a difference between being "inspired" by other artist's works and straight jacking the work and layering some vocals over it.
To be inspired is to appreciate what someone has done, and in turn it can influence you in your music. Taking arrangement ideas, rhythms, lyrical delivery, etc..that's cool. But come on man, straight jacking the exact rhythm, beats, and sounds and looping it is not really cool in my books.
Your not any different than some dj who throws an accapella he likes over instrumental beats he enjoys. That technique is what makes mixtapes so popular and also keeps the clubs hopping.
But to do that shit on the scale of a major release to make money and gain appeal?? that ain't cool.
There was another track musiq also did that really irked me. Before people start pitching a fire to burn me, i don't know if this sample came from somewhere else, but there's a sample musiq used that i know was a track Beck had. I heard that Beck track at least 3 years ago. I can't remember the name of the musiq song or the one that Beck did. Either way, that was another Straight jacking of someone else's work.
Musiq might as well call himself "DJ Musiq" and throw shout-outs throughout all the tracks ala DJ Clue style. 'Cause there's no difference between what musiq does in his tracks than DJ Clue. The only difference is that at least DJ Clue isn't perpetrating like he's an "artist".
I'm not out to dissect Musiq per say. I'm saying this in regards to this reoccurring trend amongst hip-hop & r'n'b artist's regurgitating other people's popular material.
Shit, I totally wasn't cool with Erykah using the Beats from a Dr.Dre track. Thing about that was that dre's track was still fresh in people's minds when she dropped it.
So in regards to musiq, once and for all, call a damn spade a spade. Enough with the "angles" of what/who he is respecting.
I'm not hating on all his tracks, just the ones that are obvious
peace