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The son and grandson of Pentecostal preacher men, D’Angelo was raised up on church music. His first professional music contract was a publishing deal. And his first work of note was the anthem “U Will Know” - written for the movie Jason’s Lyric, sung by an all-star group under the moniker B.M.U. (Black Men United), and featuring Gerald Levert, Brian McKnight, Aaron Hall and Stokley of Mint Condition, among a sea of many more soul men.

However, once D’Angelo began recording his own music, he deftly integrated defiant slabs of hip hop attitude, collaborating with DJ Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest on his debut “Brown Sugar,” rappers Redman and Method Man on “Left & Right,” and Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson - leader/drummer of The Roots - a heavy presence on D’s sophomore Voodoo sessions. Perhaps most potent of anything in his canon is “Devil’s Pie,” a scathing yet swinging rundown on runaway hedonism - produced by DJ Premier of Gang Starr, introduced in the urban flick, Belly, and a worthy successor to the soundtrack classics of Curtis Mayfield.

Also of note were D’Angelo’s obvious homage to the sensual vocal layering of Marvin Gaye, the falsetto flights of Prince, and the bulls-eye of Al Green’s unfettered soul. Then there were his lyrical gifts, such as the sticky-icky/sexy-sexy double-entendres of “Brown Sugar” and the more literally lovely “Me and Those Dreamin’ Eyes of Mine.
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  • dseals wrote:
    yesterday evening
    1000 deaths.

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  • parasol_ty_luju wrote:
    yesterday afternoon
    yeah cause tags n terms is all u feel in music

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  • street_dawg wrote:
    Saturday morning
    nothing wrong with that neo-soul tag

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  • Garbagemx36 wrote:
    Thursday evening
    It's a perfectly valid term. Neo-soul tends to infuse bits of hip-hop into it, which distinguishes it from soul of the 70's.

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  • Funkadelicer wrote:
    Thursday afternoon
    neo-soul, that stupid term...

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  • SayAhhh wrote:
    Thursday morning
    D! D!! You need to SERIOUSLY make a comeback ASAP. We need more singers like you now. Singers with soul. Only dude we got out now in comparsion to you is Maxwell. And he ain't giving me what i want when it comes to Neo-Soul. Only you and Lauryn did it the best. Brown Sugar - CLASSIC.

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  • Garbagemx36 wrote:
    Wednesday evening
    Still crossing my fingers this will come to something nice, though.

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  • pisyandr wrote:
    Wednesday afternoon
    lol yeah! it was me who uploaded it... i feel kinda sorry now, maybe it disappointed him and now he is all up on vodka again xD

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  • Garbagemx36 wrote:
    Wednesday morning
    oh btw 1000 Deaths is taken off of Youtube. " This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Michael Archer." which is kind of exciting, because if this is important enough to him to take the leak down, perhaps it truly is coming soon?

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  • Garbagemx36 wrote:
    Wednesday morning
    O_O shit you're being serious? how awesome.

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  • pandrzp wrote:
    Wednesday morning
    one mo' gin - all instruments (besides bass) by D'angelo

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  • Garbagemx36 wrote:
    Wednesday morning
    It blows my mind how Questlove goes straight back to the original beat in One Mo'gin after he's done with that little break-down.

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  • Garbagemx36 wrote:
    Wednesday morning
    Listening to Voodoo again I can't believe I used to think this was boring. I remember I called it "lifeless" in particular. It's probably because all I'd really known up til that point was rock music, so it was still new to me. Once I did warm up to it though, this is one of the easiest albums to throw on and just chill out.

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  • pisyandr wrote:
    Wednesday morning
    has someone managed to understand the lyrics to 1000 deaths? the chorus at least?

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  • pisyandr wrote:
    Wednesday morning
    quest said a long time ago that sex pistols are also part of the influence... maaaan, some punk rock and fat sounding guitars will do just fine! to me d'angelo is incapable of producing something incohesive... every outtake, every guest appearance, every live, every song and every album is perfect and i don't get tired of listening to them again and again for almost 10 years now... and it is so great to witness him take soul music to another level again! aaah, what a freaky individual he is :)))))) no matter this summer, this autumn, this winter... even if it's 2011 or 21.12.2012 i'll be waiting and spinning voodoo every day, or every week at least :)))))))

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  • pisyandr wrote:
    Wednesday morning
    :)))))) i've joked about "free your mind", though i would like to hear some really bugged out lsd thing from him one day :))))) he covered parts of "good to your earhole" too when live, but i'll stay wasn't that hard... she's always in my hair was THAT thing for sure... guitar work is awesome :))) i hope he goes in that direction... + lengthy guitar solos and a lotta screaming will do just fine! :)))) d'angelo's albums were always conceptual soundwise so if 1000 deaths gonna be on the album i must speculate that all the drums gonna be done in the similar way (riot, inspiration information)... also it seems like he's gonna use not only a lot of guitar but synthesizers and drum machines... that bassline, these psychedelic effects in the beginning of the song (from 1:22...) which he augments by vocals second time they appear... i hope he explores this idea a lot more, this is really psychey %)

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  • Vhien wrote:
    Wednesday morning
    xD I expect it to sound closer to America Eats Its Young or Standing on the Verge of Getting It On. Plus, it's not like the first time he's taken a hard Funkadelic sound (considering that uh...cover of I'll Stay on The RH Factor's album, "Hard Groove"). I think even his cover of "She's Always In My Hair" was a good indicator of a new direction. Let's just hope that one, the CD comes out, and two, that it's as cohesive as Voodoo and Brown Sugar. ^^

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  • pisyandr wrote:
    Tuesday evening
    yeah... let's hope! but what do i know :))) one thing i know for sure is that everybody should listen to the whole funkadelic discography five times and then ten times again while d is finishing the album xD 1000 deaths' already scared all the sluty girls away... now wait till he drops something like "free your mind... and your ass will follow" for us real men to appreciate! hahaha :)))

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  • Garbagemx36 wrote:
    Tuesday evening
    Oh that gets me excited again then, perhaps this Summer 2010 thing is possible? =D

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  • pisyandr wrote:
    last week
    Garbagemx36, this version of the song didn't leak in 2007... questo mentioned it in 2007 on okayplayer saying that he heard it and bunch of other "inside" people did also, but then he wrote this few days ago: “for the record i had absolutely nothing to do with this leak. i have a version of this but this was back in 2005. this is way more developed than the version i had. so *shoulder shrug* my guess is (based on the clarity —well more clear than what i had–) this was a 2008-9 Ruff demo?”

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