I'm wondering if anyone's feeling his new song Radio.
It's not happening to me. He totally went left field on this one.
There's a small article on him in sister 2 sister where he is
snapping on people who don't like snap and crunk music. He also snaps
on people who don't like ringtone music. His new single is crunk
influenced. You reckon it has anything to do with him living in
Atlanta now.
Well if he chooses to sell out that way and leave his soulful philly
roots behind more power to him but i wouldn't spend a dime on
this bullshit if my life depended on it.

Im gonna check this song out. I pray that he has not been influenced
by crunk. He was one of the few R&B artists that I could count on to deliver
a pretty solid effort.

Ok I just heard it If the album is anything like this he wont be getting
any of my cash.

I like this song because it is a departure for him. I just hope the entire project is not like this.

My God the song sucks smelly monkey balls! I give him props for wanting to change up his style but not like that. He sounds like he's desperate for a hit. It's just plain terrible and I am not buying this CD thanks to this one song alone. YUCK!

what kind of fuckery is this?
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I don't know what the hell y'all are talkin' bout and why y'all keep saying "he". The only Musique I know of were some females gettin' off singing....

Push push in the bush
Push push in the bush

This cat is OVA.

vainandy said:

We are referring to Musiq Soulchild.

Who????? Who in the fuck is that? Hell, for a minute there, I thought y'all were ready to start jammin' up in here.

my cousins went to Chaka Khan's show in Atlantic city over the weekend where Musiq opened up. She said he was horrible. but chaka khan was great.
maybe he was having an off night but she thinks he's not a good live performer.
i've never seen him live but i still believe in his talent.

and for this new song..i'm perplexed. what direction he's going with this?
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vainandy said:

This cat.....He's a little too "new" for your taste. I think he debuted in 98 with "Sunny (Just Friends)". His last hits were "Teachme" and "B.U.D.D.Y." that utilized the sample of "Heartbeat" from Taana Gardner.

wonder505 said:

I've heard the same thing about him live. Of course, after hearing him sing on the ONA live set, I decided quickly that I would not invest in any of his live shows.

His second album is really, really good.


This, however, is just as someone above just mentioned: Fuckery.

Here are some of his more memorable tunes vain

Just Friends(Sunny)



Half Crazy



My personal favorite is Who Knows but i had trouble
posting the video from youtube

chuckaducci said:

I haven't liked but one of his albums and that is the latest one. To me, it was the most consistent.

The only albums that I can tolerate by him is his latest CD, Luvanmusiq and Juslissen. The rest is just crappy, by-the-numbers, generic contemporary R&B mixed with hip-hop. I never really understood why people considered him to be a true neo soul artist. It seemed that when record execs thought it would be wise for him to cut his hair and slicken his image, they made him conform to something he wasn't. This new song is just everything that is wrong with much of black music right now. Like some said, He just needs money and is desperate for a hit, since all of his albums since his second one have flopped.
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I didn't really care much for the debut album. Juslisen was cool but i thought
soulstar was his best. I know i'm in the minority but to me that album
lived up to it's title and probably was the reason it was so under the radar
because of today's music climate. There was absolutely no hip hop or guest
rap stars on the album. He had some very slick soulful ballads on this album like who knows,the reason,whereareyougoing,and the stevie wonderesque songs
her and givemorelove. I also dug you love me, forethenight, and romancipation.
I'm surprised his soulstar album don't get no love from the org.
As far as luvanmusiq i only could tolerate buddy, dug teach me a lot, and
one other uptempo cut from the album. The rest to me was just bland.
I guess he is desperate for a hit if he have to resort to something as awful
as radio just because he moved to ATL.

silverchild said:

I agree. I enjoyed his last album. It was very consistent. It amazes me that he has sustained a career this long. He has an ok voice, but, overall, is not a good singer. What has been his saving glory are this tracks.

daPrettyman said:

I think he's a good songwriter. His tracks are usually good so I agree with that. His voice is okay but most of the artists I grew up on had "okay" voices. The stringent singing constraints of nowadays to sound stereotypical are part of the reason why R&B sucks. His biggest problem in my opinion is that his material is almost all ballads. B-U-D-D-Y is about as fast as he gets.
And yes, this new track is very bottom-of-the-barrel for him. On 106th and Park, he made sure to mention that this is just one song on the CD and the whole CD is not like this, so I bet that the choice to release this song as a single was not his or else he wouldn't have had to qualify his music like that.

DirtyChris said:

I know right. I used to kinda like this little dude.

Oh, I've heard of him y'all. As a matter of fact, I think he's on one of Prince's aftershow CD's in which a friend made a copy of for me. I just thought it was funny as hell that not only can these little youngsters come up with their own music, now they can't even come up with their own name.

BlaqueKnight said:

Egads, you think Musiq's a "good songwriter?"...why?


I think his voice is his best quality. He's more of a vocalist than a songwriter, imho. I don't watch TV but if Musiq did utter those words on 106 & Park, then yes, he's certainly letting his true fans know that the entire album doesn't sound like shite.

If I do recall correctly, I do remember Musiq, upon the release of his second or thid album, saying something along the lines that he doesn't see the need to switch up his style; he's got a formula and he's sticking to it. Now, people can certainly change their minds - and have a right to, damnit - but that type of statement coming from a musician goes hand and hand with his new tune.

But, I've gone over the allocated "Musiq discussion time" I've set aside each year so on to the next quickly fading R&B crooner.

chuckaducci said:

I've explained this before. There was a thread on Omarion's "Icebox" and on that thread I think I spoke on how well thought out Musiq's lyrics are. While most other lyricists focus on slick wording, his lyrics ring of sincerity. Peep the lyrics to Teach Me. That's real talk! Its reminiscent of Marvin Gaye. Its none of that slick "check out how many ways I can say I wanna fuck you" talk but its a sincere conveying of most men's inability to communicate in relationships mixed with their contrasting desire to do so but lacking the understanding of how to.
Check "Love", where he uses the dichotomy of Love as being a woman and an emotion as he talks to it/her. Sometimes you have to look beyond the surface to appreciate the work.

This is going to be the 4th best song of his career in ringtone sales (at least).


It's going to hurt his "deep, and sensitive quasi-post neo-soul" fans, but the "thug-club 2-steppers" are going to love this one!
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pretty obvious he's giving them what they want, there is a hint of sarcasm there if you listen..can't beat em join em

Just heard this.....

WTF is this Omarion/Chris Brown sounding shizzzz?
What is Musiq going through?

Holy mid-career crisis!

I haven't seen someone sellout this blatently since Jewel slutted things up for hear shaving cream theme song

This is his Radio/In The Club joint, the kids will love this I'm sure.

Abdul said:

They aren't so far. The song has been at radio for over a month and hasn't done a thing.