Thursday, December 19, 2002
15. "hot night," me'shell ndegeocello featuring talib kweli
and from one to watch to one I've been watching for nigh on a decade, now. ndegeocello's soulful funk, her sheer sense of the groove, is so effortless as to practically render comparisons irrelevant. she's her own artist now, aping no one - but you can pick up influences, and they're a funk/soul dream team encompassing prince, clinton, fela kuti, roy ayers, and gil scott-heron. I can't imagine that another major-label artist sampled angela davis this year, either. and where most artists working in the r-and-b idiom today would insert kweli as just another rapper doing a cameo, ndegeocello works and twists him into her mix, making him part of the, well, groove of it all. she's one of the finest, and most consistent, artists of the last decade.
and from one to watch to one I've been watching for nigh on a decade, now. ndegeocello's soulful funk, her sheer sense of the groove, is so effortless as to practically render comparisons irrelevant. she's her own artist now, aping no one - but you can pick up influences, and they're a funk/soul dream team encompassing prince, clinton, fela kuti, roy ayers, and gil scott-heron. I can't imagine that another major-label artist sampled angela davis this year, either. and where most artists working in the r-and-b idiom today would insert kweli as just another rapper doing a cameo, ndegeocello works and twists him into her mix, making him part of the, well, groove of it all. she's one of the finest, and most consistent, artists of the last decade.
# posted by Thomas : 3:52 PM
