Innervisions: Raphael Saadiq Interview [BlackSheepMag]
Published WorkPublished May 14, 2009 at 12:24 AM No Comments
Despite describing The Way I See It as “probably some of the best material I’ve ever toured with,” one gets the feeling Raphael Saadiq is still waiting for the peak in response to his latest album.
“Still, for me, the best promotion is going out playing your record,” he tells me. “You know I’m not like a Top 40 teeny bop pop act that’s gonna be here tomorrow then gone in three months…Most acts that come out right now have a new deal – I’ll be around after they’ll be done. [They'll be] be out for a year and a half… Since I’ve been out I can’t tell you how many groups came out and they’re gone. So I like to take the back road, it’s a better road for me.”
Implying lukewarm promotion for his project, Saadiq explains, “I was kinda inherited through Columbia in the States. A friend of mine he signed me but he got released and he works at Def Jam now…When you’re inherited nobody really wants to touch it because they don’t want to be responsible for it – but people started talking about it and it’s starting to form a life of it’s own.”
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