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And so, with me having all that just sitting here in my arsenal, this time I just decided to bring it OUT! You know, those were the kind of visions I had in my head while composing the music for those songs. You know, I listened to him so many times while I was growing up.

Plus I also liked the fact that the song then kinda has three generations of musicians from three different eras on there - first Larry, then me, then her - which for me kinda ties it all together And so in that way I do find indie-rock very appealing. When I came back home, the music for this album flowed organically, naturally, and since I have my own studio I was able to perfect it and take my time to make it right.

I was able to live with it day after day, and I think that had a lot to do with how the album turned out. It took about four months to put it all together. Stax did that, and so did Motown and the Beatles: artists who made real popular songs that touch my soul.

It's the music that brings people together, the music that can even make animals stand there and listen. I always like to make music that will appeal to other musicans, as well as to people who listen to very commercial music; the cool cats of 40 to 50, the cool kids of 15 to 16, the cool black rapper — I want to bring all of those people together, because that's how music should be instead of how it is right now, which is really segregated.

I wanted to make a track that would get the lowriders. People talk about the division between Latinos and blacks, but we all grew up together loving the same music. This song is a reminder of how we do when we get together. I was just being me. I wasn't trying to do a Temptations song or a Smokey song — by the time I snapped my fingers and tapped my feet on the floor, I was there.

I really lived it. I wasn't immersing myself in a role. It was like having a great dream and not wanting to wake up. That's why when people ask, 'What's your next album going to sound like? This is me. It's me, more than anything else I've ever done. In fact, making it has made me feel like I've never even done another record. I'd come up with some riffs, sing the song in my head, and I basically did this on my own. I would love to bounce ideas off other people, do some writing with them, take the material to my band and say, 'OK, let's cut it,' with the orchestra already there.

That's my dream. I'd crank records out weekly if I had staff writers like they did at Stax and Motown, whereas right now, given the state of the industry, I had to sit in a room all by myself except for Chuck Brungardt, sing each song to myself while playing the drums, and then play the guitar over the top of that, play the bass, play some basic piano, do the vocal and record the strings later. Evidently uninterested in being associated with neo-soul -- the marketing term turned subgenre he unintentionally instigated -- Saadiq branded the back sleeve of the expansive LP with the label "gospeldelic.

In the middle of this flurry, released through Pookie, the two-disc live performance All Hits at the House of Blues , a career-spanning celebration with a short set of Tony! Pookie was also the outlet for the proper Instant Vintage follow-up, Ray Ray. Issued in October , the funkier, blaxploitation-inspired LP allowed room for a second Tony! Teedra Moses , who had just debuted with the Saadiq -assisted Complex Simplicity , sang on two songs.

The album entered the Independent Albums chart at number three. Between solo projects, Saadiq expanded his side discography with contributions to another round of hit LPs, including titles from Anthony Hamilton , Mary J.

Supporting work continued apace with Stone , Blige , Ledisi , and Rick Ross the primary beneficiaries of Saadiq 's free time. Faster than normal, even with touring and additional creative obligations outside music studios, Saadiq was able to conceive and complete his fourth LP, Stone Rollin' , for arrival in March Retaining some of the same players from his previous session while performing more of the instrumentation -- not just four- and six-string guitars, but Mellotron, clavinet, and some drums as well -- Stone Rollin' was a comparatively immediate and rawer throwback synthesis.

Over eight years passed between Saadiq 's fourth and fifth solo albums. The artist still seemed occupied for the duration, as he surfaced on recordings by collaborators crossing cultures and generations, from Larry Graham , Booker T. Most prominently, he was a key factor in Solange 's number one album A Seat at the Table -- the co-writer and co-producer of eight songs, including "Cranes in the Sky," and also credited beside the singer as executive producer.

Saadiq and Stinson then worked with Mary J. Blige on the Academy Award-nominated "Mighty River," written and recorded for the period drama Mudbound. The following year, he and composer Laura Karpman collaborated on the score for the television series L.

Saadiq also produced and sang on the compilation Stand Up for the international advocacy organization Global Citizen.