Wheres the Soul?

I was originally gonna call this post "where the divas at?" focusing on the female neoSOUL singers that have pushed out genius, solid, and sometimes CLASSIC (mamas gun anyone?) efforts over the past few years and have just...laid low for more than a minute...But then i started to think about the fellas..WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?? while lauryn is publicly making an ass of herself and erykah is taking 4346565 years to work on an album, that im sure will have 5 tracks on it. No word from the Bilals, Maxwells, Dweles and D'angelos....

Why is it that in a world where rihanna can release an album everytime she decides she wants to do jay-z's laundry she can, but if an artist with substance, a voice and oh yea..TALENT wants to..its like pulling teeth? im honestly not sure..could it be the fact that the artist is praised SO MUCH that they become full of themselves and feel like releasing another album would be SOOO brilliant and SOOO influential it would mark the return of Christ? (lauryn it aint that serious boo, come back)...OR the artist go back into the studio thinking that they can be TRUE artist and make music without gimmicks and their record label reminds them that, without a gimmick or sellin sex, they will continue to go double plexyglass on the charts? and there for DROPS them? (its ok res, ur still the bees knees to me!)...again, im not exactly sure...OR! OR! OR!!!... wack artist of today feel they CONSTANTLY need to prove themselves as SERIOUS artist that they MUST release an album every season?....whatever the case may be, i wish the SOUL would make a triumphant COMEBACK..not saying it ever left, with great artist like; Lina, Angie Stone, Anthony Hamilton, India Arie, Rhian Benson, Donnie and Amel Larriuex holdin us down...but i MISS back when everything was new and neoSOUL artist were getting the props they deserved..ofcourse there was the typical grammy snub...india and jill were done WRONG, and whom-intheFUCK-ever thinks that Beyonces "dangerously inlove" was a better R&b album (or good for that matter)than "comin from where im from" by Anthony Hamilton can lick a stove burner!..smh now i just got myself all worked up..now pardon me while i go sip a capri sun, watch my buffy the vampire slayer dvd and goto my happy place....