Doing What I Can

[00:51.95] Raphael Saadiq, formerly of Tony! Toni! Toné
[00:54.95] Founder of Lucy Pearl
[00:56.48] Is setting up to release his first solo album of his career
[01:01.12] Instant Vintage
[01:03.33] (Very athletic man)
[01:06.03] Great musician
[01:08.89] He's got this Gospeldelic soul
[01:15.53] You think of the word Gospeldelic
[01:17.00] You only think of one person
[01:19.92] Raphael Saadiq
[01:21.24] Raphael Saadiq
[01:23.98] I'm only trying to be the best that I can
[01:27.27] But I don't (don't) understand, I'm just doing what I can
[01:35.45] The life of Raphael Saadiq has been one of quiet struggle
[01:39.49] As the product of a large family with roots
[01:41.83] In Louisiana, Mississippi, and Chicago
[01:44.67] Saadiq would be the only child born in Oakland
[01:47.26] Where an unfortunate string of mishaps
[01:49.45] Would eventually take the lives of three brothers and a sister
[01:53.53] Your life and my life is not so predictable
[01:58.75] Me and you gotta know which way we wanna go
[02:03.74] My life has been an up and down struggle
[02:08.80] But now today, I know which way I gotta go
[02:13.97] Go, go
[02:17.37] (I'm just doing what I can) what I can, yeah
[02:22.61] (I'm just doing what I can) what I can
[02:27.88] (I'm just doing what I can) I'm just doing what I can
[02:32.95] Ooh, I'm just doing (oh my, oh my)
[02:38.01] (I'm just doing what I can) what I can)
[02:40.03] (Doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it)
[02:43.12] I'm just doing what I can
[02:44.87] I'm just doing it (oh why, why?)
[02:48.49] (I'm just doing what I can) what I can (doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it)
[02:54.79] I'm just doing it (oh why? Oh, why?) Oh, why, why?
[02:58.89] Oh why, why? What I can y'all (doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it)
[03:03.82] I'm just doing what-
[03:05.03] I'm just doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it-
[03:10.28] What I can y'all (doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it)
[03:15.25] I'm just doing (oh my, oh my)
[03:17.94] Oh why, why? Oh why, why? (I'm just doing what I can)
[03:21.30] (Doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it)
[03:23.19] Ooh, I'm just doing what I can (I'm just doing it)
[03:26.53] (Oh why? Oh why?)
[03:29.38] I'm just doing what I can (doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it)
[03:36.35] Why, why?
[03:37.52] Raphael's an ancient future brother
[03:41.11] Unconventional (I want unconventional)
[03:43.92] Doing it his way
[03:45.79] And doing it well
[03:49.47] Gospeldelic
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