This post is a total waste of typography. I can not believe that you, Mr. Johnson, has a problem with Quest's drumming? Questlove saved my life! Until I heard The Roots and Erykah I thought the use of live drumming in "R&B" (I use this term loosely) had died. I didn't want to reply to this post, because for some reason I always seem to reply to yours. But, I came back to it after the Y2K, and I have to say: You are critical of the wrong folk. I know, I know, I shouldn't talk. I have something to say about everything, but MONONTONOUS?! You have obviously never heard monotony. If you did it wasn't on Voodoo. And it sure wasn't from Questlove. With the exception of Tony, Toni, Tone (Tim Wiggins), and Mint Condition (Stokely, Chris Daddy Dave), you won't hear live drums on black radio. <P>Yeah, you can get into the science of drumming and all that, but I haven't heard a song like "Untitled" on the radio since 1990. If I did it was probably on the Quiet Storm or some shit like that. I mean this song has reached chickenheads hearts. Do you know the impossibility of that? I think radio could be onto something here. So if it takes what you think are monotonous drums to do it, so be it. Most of the "great" songs by Prince, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Commodores, etc., "suspiciously" have similar drum patterns. I'm a singer. "Suspiciously" my voice has the same pattern, but I pray to God no one notices.

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