


I make (my lyrics) very simple to show that you don’t have to get deep and heavy to express a realistic point, you just gotta talk about it.†Hopefully, expressing what I know may have a positive effect on people.

"I just hope and pray that people take a more realistic approach in expressing themselves through music because that actually has a lot to do with people’s perception of what relationships are. I think that it’s important that the two people that are in the relationship identify what it is between each other and agree to what it is, as opposed to one person thinking that it’s one way and the other person is in the dark,†he explains. The album, a collection of songs touching on mature experiences of life and love, covers topics of self-improvement and struggles with emotional vulnerability in relationships, whilst the lead single ‘Buddy’ tackles a need for honest definitions of relationships: “There are implications and attachments that have been put on the idea of relationships, and I think a lot of people get caught up in those things. Men and women alike appreciate Musiq’s honest reflections in what he describes as a realistic approach to “things that happen every day†a tried and tested formula that continues to work as his fourth album, 'Luvanmusiq', swoops into the top position of the US charts.

The comprehensible simplicity of his lyrical phrasing is his trademark feature, and since the release of his debut album 'Aijuswanaseing' in late 2000, the expressive and down-to-earth soul star has widely appealed to the repressed emotions of young men - many of whom didn’t formerly listen to soul. Musiq Soulchild, born Talib Johnson, entered the airwaves as an accessible gateway between modern RnB and the more soulful end of the scale - much like fellow Philadelphia soul artist Dwele.
