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So at least, yeah, he he's, he's right there.

I hear him.

He's correct.

For sure.

I don't know.

Maybe my timelines are wrong, but I can't really remember Neo Soul...

really becoming a thing until i think like music soul child yo you took the words right out my mouth like music and uh what's uh india ari yeah yeah like you know like yeah i'm not my hair was definitely the neo souls song that was on the radio like i'm again i could have my time but i don't remember really hearing people even say the word neo soul

until music soul child because obviously the success that he had with his sing his first single and you know his first album and things like that um but before that it was r&b it was you know i mean it was hip-hop it wasn't you know maybe jazz obviously jazz and soul but it wasn't neo so i don't remember people even saying that i mean i i always when i was younger i always put when did music soul child's first album come out it's the first time i'm sure but if you'd

2000?

Yeah, I Just Wanna Sing was 2000.

So yeah, around that time... Which is a fucking classic album.

That's where... See, a blend of R&B, neo-soul, funk... Like, I didn't really start hearing the word neo-soul until...

What's so funny about that, I kind of remember... Maxwell, maybe.

Maybe a little bit you heard the word neo-soul, maybe.

I think that's why that became a thing.

Cause I'm saying these artists are maybe 500,000, maybe a million, you know what I'm saying?

But like, I think Maxwell was still very much identified as an R and B artist.

I mean, OK, I hear what you're saying.

It's still it was still a way.

It was like a code word in the marketing meetings of how much money to allocate to the budget for this particular artist and sound, which was like it's kind of unfair because it's like, yo, why are you just trying to create smaller budgets for this sound?