Sounds right to me. I could see this playing on something like KEXP out of Seattle/New York, which plays old school hip hop and "world" music (though I can't remember any Apop on there, now that I think about it).

BTW here's the vocals for I Love You:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vb2TVXPZg

Even though the melody doesn't sound "foreign" to me, it does sound weird somehow. Like the church harmonies on "I love you" are different from the harmonies on the rest of the song.