Bilal is Jon Hendricks + Walter Junie Morrison + Melvin Wilson (The New Birth) + Jeff Buckley + Donny Hathaway + Ronnie Dyson + Glenn Goines + Joey Dee (Cymande) + Jay Kay + Bobby Debarge + Andy Kauffman + George Duke + Oscar Brown Jr + Angelo Moore + David Byrne+ the unexpressed trauma experience of Trans Atlantic Africans & the accumulated marvel of our magic in a voice.
For real.
I know it’s hard for someone to make a move without some sort of insurance of satisfaction. I mean let’s face it did Million Dollar Baby sit there on the shelf alone & you gravitated to it? Or did you (like me) see all your peeps riding the wave having fun on their socials & you get fomo?
No shame in that.
But sometimes you just gotta support religiously people that deserve the Royal Treatment. We live in a world in which an artist like Bilal possesses a talent so majestic it’s almost seen as a hindrance or a stain that will keep him from getting his just desserts because he is so advanced math it’s almost UNcommon.
It don’t have to be that way: Bilal &
@robertglasper &
@boombishop &
@common & I came to
@glasshaus & jammed in the living room w 100 of our peeps & made a fine piece of art.
Is this hip hop’s
#MoneyJungle ? a quiet summit meeting that will make “best of” lists some 20 years down the line?
get on the train NOW! See what we known for DECADES!