 On its musical style, music critic John Bush wrote that "Kamaal the Abstract" "pays homage to the last gasp of organically produced mainstream pop in the '70s and '80s, paying a large compliment to Prince and Stevie Wonder".The album has been compared by writers to soul and funk-oriented albums such as D'Angelo's "Voodoo" (2000), André 3000's "The Love Below" (2003), and Prince's "Musicology" (2004), as well as the hip hop/neo soul work of the Soulquarians collective.In his book "To the Break of Dawn