Neo-Soul is far from dead

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Ph. D student, Marcus Shepard, has a high passion for Neo-Soul music.  Neo-Soul is a mixture of hip-hop and 60s/70s soul traditions that became popular in the early 90s.  Shepard sees this female-dominated genre as a rebuttal to the misogynistic narratives of rap music.  Some say that Neo-Soul is dead, but Shepard argues otherwise.  Neo-Soul may not be on the mainstream charts as it was in the 90s, but the genre has a major online presence and singers such as Jill Scott, Ledisi and Erykah Badu are keeping the genre alive and thriving.