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Raphael Saadiq<\/strong> has been soulfully killing it since his days in the underrated Tony! Toni! Tone!<\/strong>, but he has gone on to break away from the R&B peloton with a revelatory solo career.\u00a0 In March of this year he released yet another standard-setting album (his fourth), entitled “Stone Rollin’.”<\/strong><\/p>\n From this album, Saadiq’s song Go to Hell <\/strong><\/em>takes us back to the great Soul Summer of ’71<\/strong> and simply shouts summertime radio (good luck finding it on the dial though these days).\u00a0 Saadiq takes Motown’s old soul and brightens its corners.\u00a0 Tell your wife, husband, kids, grandparents and friends–soul is back courtesy of Saadiq.\u00a0 Despite the song’s title this is no F-you<\/strong> (a la Cee-Lo<\/strong>), but instead a hard look in the mirror and an invitation to loving living.\u00a0 Preach it, Raphael!\u00a0 Check it out, and then the title track,\u00a0 Stone Rollin’, <\/strong><\/em>below it.<\/p>\n Inspirational Verse from Go to Hell<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n “Here\u2019s the situation, yes the devil knows me well I can feel it getting closer, closer every day I can see my name written across the sky,
\nSee I\u2019m trying to do my best not to go to hell!
\nI\u2019m counting all my blessings, as I walk the narrow road,
\nVictory is near, that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been told!<\/p>\n
\nI wanna be a warrior of everything I say
\nThere\u2019s trials in the valley, take me upstream.
\nI need to feel this water falling down over me
\nFalling down over me!<\/p>\n
\nRavens started flying, I saw tears in their eyes.
\nThere was fires in the mountains, and storms in the sea,
\nWinds in the valley, rushing into me.<\/p>\n