Being that so much of the music, no matter what name it is given, rap, hip hop, R&B, gangsta rap, Neo Soul, seems to stem from Hip Hop. Is there some sort of separation due to instruments, beats per minute. What are your thoughts on this, please way in
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8. "Some neo-soulers were explicitly influenced by the hip-hop ethos" In response to Reply # 0
(D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, etc) others were not (Maxwell, Eric Benet--yep, he was neo-soul at one point).
So no... I don't think you could make a broad categorization of neo-soul as being hip-hop.
But what of those who DID evince the hip-hop influence? Could you call their music hip-hop? I mean, 15 has made the argument that the true founders of neo-soul were A Tribe Called Quest. And D'Angelo's first album was probably more of a homage to the Low End Theory than to Parade...
9. "Ali Shaheed personally informed that sound" In response to Reply # 8
when he did Brown Sugar once that happened it was pretty much a done deal, people try to credit Dilla with that sound but it all started as far back as Low End it took Midnight Marauders for people to figure out how to put it with more oomph
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10. "also who the fuck is this guy that posted this shit" In response to Reply # 0
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