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Ne-Yo, Keri Hilson and the style that lasts: R&B

September 06 06:05:01 AM,

Raphael Saadiq, Eric Benet and others are also part of a bumper crop of releases due this fall. LOOKING classic-casual in a summer blazer, gray fedora and matching silk scarf, Ne-Yo leaned over his laptop in a West Hollywood recording studio one mid- August afternoon, playing selections from "Year of the Gentleman," his third solo album, out Sept. 16. "The thing that sticks out on this record is the drama," said the 25-year-old singer-songwriter and soul ace as he pushed a button and the swirling ballad "Lie to Me" blasted out of the room's stereo system. "You can almost see it."

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