Blige was turning anguish into hip-hop soul. The truth is that, in 1997, R&B did not need any saving: Aaliyah’s music lived in the future. But in carving space for this retro sound, the music world presented neo-soul artists as saviors who were bringing R&B “back to basics,” which dismissed the innovation that was already driving the genre. Their musical and artistic identities affirmed the mutual bond between Black love and liberation. Heralded as prodigies, they made lush serenades and instrumental jam sessions with a political center. They are full of control and surrender at the same time, confident in their search for answers even when there are none.īadu’s musical style had roots in the smooth harmonies of ’80s groups like Mint Condition and Tony! Toni! Toné!, along with the early songs of Meshell Ndegeocello, but it wasn’t until the late ’90s that neo-soul crystallized into a subgenre with a foundational crew of rebels: D’Angelo, Maxwell, Badu, Jill Scott. There’s a throughline to albums like Solange’s 2016 opus A Seat at the Table, which similarly harnesses the power of Black music as a salve. It stripped the act of soul-searching down to its philosophical elements, mining abstract concepts like self-love, romantic love, and spirituality. Baduizm was an instant hit of intimate existentialism. The record went double platinum by summer and that year won the Grammy for Best R&B Album under the banner of a divisive new subgenre, neo-soul.
Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.Out of those demo sessions came her February 1997 debut, Baduizm, bookended by the original recording of “Rim Shot,” split into an intro and outro. Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. You can watch a clip of her performance above.
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