Writer Miles Marshall Lewis on seeing Bilal in Paris

Commanding the stage in a wifebeater, black Ray-Ban-like shades and low-slung tattered jeans, Bilal did his thing for a packed crowd without the benefit of having dropped a new album in nine years. (Interscope Records shelved 2006’s Love for Sale for leaking onto the web; Airtight’s Revenge is due in September from indie label Plug Research.) His kamikaze style and dredlocks long gone, Bilal put in a riveting set of largely unknown songs: only “Sometimes,” “For You” and “Soul Sista” were culled from 1st Born Second.

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