...why the hell should he devote recording and performing time to covers?<P>I mean I'm a musician myself, and everybody who's ever been around knows that I'll play EWF, pre-JT Kool and the Gang, WAR, Ohio Players (Westbound and Mercury) and CTI stuff all day!! Hey, ALL OF US like to do that!<P>BUT...<P>The brotha has a musical identity of his OWN that hasn't even been fully explored and realized, but yet folks are pullin' up lists of OTHER people's songs they want to hear him cover or re-make (yeah, there's a difference between the two; ask me and I'll explain). <P>Now, a cover song in a concert is fine; maybe one per album or something...but, for me, I'd rather hear what D'Angelo could do of his own. Not everyone can fuck with somebody else's song, but not everyone can make a contribution of their own either. Just because he might have a resemblance to the great soul brothas of the past doesn't mean that I want to hear him do THEIR songs.<P>Hell, if anything, let him do HIS thing so that other people will be trying to cover and re-make HIS stuff. Let him leave HIS mark...or make a deeper one.<P><BR>