If you don't "get" Pal Joey (real name Joseph Paul Longo III) immediately upon encountering his 🔥 jazzy/dusty/stripped-down house tracks in the club, you are from the suburbs. Sorry... I don't make the rules.
(For the full experience, dig up his career-spanning "Somewhere In New York" mix CD — https://www.discogs.com/release/2198593-Pal-Joey-Somewhere-In-New-York)