“I think that there’s a lot of feel-good music in the south, but in today’s R&B, you don’t have that real joy to me. Motown made people feel things, and these days, I don’t see the tears, the love or the emotion. Slow dancing is missing for the young kids now, and I want to bring those good feelings back. There’s a place for everything, so I don’t really criticize anybody’s music because I listen to it all, but urban black music is the music that everybody in the world likes, whether they’re black, white, latino, whatever they are. Look at Lil Wayne, that’s as black as you can get, but it’s also the most pop that it could be, because he’s doing himself since the very beginning.”
-excerpt from an Interview done by Soultracks
