“So, um, Questlove, Bilal, Common,” she counted the names on her fingers and frowned, trying to remember, “J Dilla—rest in power—um, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, Roy Hargrove, D’Angelo … um, James Poyser, Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, and Pino Palladino.” She laughed on an exhale and clapped her palms together. “These brilliant, brilliant artists formed a neo-soul collective in the late nineties. They produced some of the sexiest, most provocative music to date, in my not-so-humble opinion.”
