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Raphael Saadiq is having quite the career resurgence. Of course, he never floundered in the music business. After starting out playing bass for Sheila E for Prince’s “Parade Tour,” reaching stardom with Tony! Toni! Tone!, taking part in Lucy Pearl, and then going solo, Raphael Saadiq has always been pretty busy. And when the 50-year-old is not making his own music, he’s writing and producing for countless other talented musicians. As of late, he’s been everywhere, though. He was executive producer of Solange’s critically-acclaimed A Seat at the Table album. He also appeared on Netflix’s popular show Luke Cage and is composer for Issa Rae’s hit HBO comedy, Insecure. As Saadiq put it while speaking with Billboard recently, “I work every day — I barely see daylight unless I go out to get something to eat.”
Because we are geeked about all of the love Saadiq has been receiving as of late (it’s oh so overdue), we wanted to share a few of our favorite songs written (co-written in some cases) by the talented musician. In no particular order, of course.
“Ask of You”
“Ask of You” is still Saadiq’s biggest solo hit. The song from the Higher Learning soundtrack deserves to be in heavy rotation on any true R&B fan’s slow jam playlist.
