After making a splash on the Lucy Pearl album, as well as Guru’s new Street Soul, Bilal could be the proverbial next big thing in R&B crooners. Certainly, he’s got good production behind him as the ubiquitous Raphael Sahdeeq drips honeyed soul on the slow groovin’ track. Bilal shares a faint resemblance to the falsetto tone of D’Angelo, but won’t confuse anyone. There’s a small element of Sam Cooke’s earnestness in his tone but none of the overblown theatrics that have sometimes overpowered other artists “Soul Sista” won’t bounce the club goers but it might get them in the bedroom mood, knawmean?