I got an advance copy of D'Angelo's excellent new album
"Voodoo." It will be released on Tuesday (1/25) in the US.
In the CD booklet, there is a commentary about the poor
state of today's music and the lack of artistic inspiration.
This section mentions Prince. It states,"I'd pay to see
Prince's face when he listens to this album (Ahmir,? of the
Roots, said that the Artist lets black people call him
Prince). Do you think he'd feel robbed or inspired? My
opinion, over the years as I've sat in countless conversations
about why it is that The Artist puts out half the shit he
does (you know the half I'm talking about) is because he lacks
any new inspiration. Once again an artist is faced with the
reality of having to serve as their own inspiration after they
have worn out all of their Sly, Jimi, Marvin, Stevie."



*Please note*
This unindentified commentary follows D'Angelo's
own commentary. I do not believe this to be part of
D'Angelo's commentary because it speaks of him as D'Angelo
or D.



Buy this album and hit the repeat button. It's like one big
jam session.



Finally, the drumming (by ?uestlove) on the song "Africa"
sounds very similar to "I Wonder U." ?uestlove has said that
"I Wonder U" is his favorite Prince song.