In the year since Daniel Caesar released Freudian, he has become a premiere vocal talent on the global R&B circuit. Even in the years leading up to Freudian, he was already one of the most talented musicians alive. Leading the next generation of impossibly talented songwriters who specialize in the emotionally-evoking and the sexually-sensitive, what makes Caesar so special, and his peers so timeless, is that he amongst they is particularly possible. There is nothing to be stripped from his talent. His vocal prowess is clear. 

 

But, amongst a sea of some of the best young vocalists in R&B history, Caesar’s rise to the top has been derived from the charm of his imperfection. A voice with a broken delivery that instills understandable emotion into each note. Subject matter and lyricism that relates to the awkwardness and realism of our everyday lives.

 

Daniel Caesar is the best R&B musician alive today because he has been able to take the most unobtainable and unrelatable genre that’s subject matter could only be realized in our most raunchy of dreams and has in turn made it uniquely honest. 

 

At last, Caesar has responded to the tens of millions of fans earned since Freudian’s 2017 release with an effort that displays he is the same young artist with same imperfect silk and the same relatable force on a torrent to change not only R&B, but music forever. With a spot feature from T-Pain and experimental spin on his darkly romantic approach, we are left with only one question for young Mr. Caesar: Who Hurt You?