Exactly - D'Angelo's not some pretty-boy songster who needs a team of producers to write his material. Dupri cannot write "The Root (Pt.2)."

namepeace said:

Actually I prefer his debut album when he was still a little heavy to the follow up cd where he looked like a playgirl playmate.

i found it ironic he complained in an innerview that he was viewed as a sexual object-DUDE you just freely admitted you'd trained with the military for that tour and the untitled video

put some clothes on-eat a few burgers then see how fast voodoo drops off the top 100

I still insist that D is the one who gave Prince those pills in 96.

i think if prince can procure a giraffe at 3am on xmas eve he can get his hands on a few sleeping pills.....

PSSSST princy-looka what i got

yo whats that?

these are called...DRUM ROLL..sl eee ping pills-take em with lots of wine-make you feel good

DONT BE SO FUCKING SILLY

I INSIST YOU GIVE ME THE FACTS-cmon now..dont make a dumbass claim and dont back it up

Prospect said:

oh hell-to-the-yeah!!!

D is coming back, D is coming back.....YEAHHHHH

I know my man Raphael Saadiq is a must producer on D's next album....JD can't even fuck with Raphael & D when they collaborate...and thats a fact.
[Edited 8/5/06 8:45am]

jonylawson said:

Surely you jest Davros! Lemme see - Marvin Gaye was 33 when he released What's Going On, Curtis Mayfield was 30 when Superfly came out, James Brown 37 when Sex Machine came out. Miles Davis was, urm 43, when he recorded In A Silent Way ... Age is really but a number when it comes to creativity. If you're great once, you can be great again.

Anyway, all this is immaterial - how old are YOU, botox boy?

I expect maybe one more good album from him..


hope that creative vibe hasn't been lost in his transformation

i knew id get shot down-im 33-marvin,james,miles had a great body of work before them-shit it took p 5 or six albums to reach masterpiece status

thats all im saying-james brown was really 37 when he did sex machine-well good gawd

Fuck his weight, when D´Angelo started in 1994 he wasn´t exactly skinny or athletic, he was chunky, and that´s OK, it´s the music that counts.

I don´t understand all the hate on this board, he´s one of the few real talented and original musicians out there...saw him in concert in 2000 and he was great, couldn´t have cared less about his weight or his looks, even though he was muscular back then it didn´t really make any difference for the show.

Jermaine Dupri is the only thing in this news that I´m worried about, that dude is annoying as hell.

Didn´t Alan Leeds also say here on the org that D´Angelo had tons of album material waiting to be released ? It wasn´t just Questlove.

D´Angelo is cool ,give the man a chance, all he needs is a bit of support, a couple of weeks in the gym and he´ll be fine...life consists of ups and downs, happens to the best of us.
And so what if he´s 32 ?

KoolEaze said:

exactly

None of you realise that you stop being creative on your 361st day of your 29th year. That's a fact, although it's not actually been proven.

Ifsixwuz9 said:

Yeah, but six, you ain't "most people."

jonylawson said:

33! Jesus' age when he went to Calvary!

I know where you're coming from though, Johnny. I should've qualified my statements about age vs output. JB had already had one entire groundbreaking career and invented funk in the time it's taken pothead D'A to not make his follow-up to the still innovative Voodoo. Ditto Marvin and Sly. In the six years since Voodoo, Miles would've recorded ten double albums worth of atom-splitting material.

But, in fairness, D'Angelo has had record company issues, and he's also a pothead, which impedes productivity. He's from the George Michael school of creativity. I anticipate he'll call his next album Thanks For Waiting. That said, it's bound to be the most innovative, imaginative, sexy and dark slice of soul you've heard since ... "Voodoo". I can't wait. But then I will.
[Edited 8/5/06 13:57pm]

KoolEaze said:

I agree. What is this body image bollocks? Barry White was orca fat when he made EVERY SINGLE ONE of his greatest singles. Solomon Burke is and always has been a big man - you're doubting his musical prowess. And while we're talking fat guys, roll on Fats Domino. You anorexic celery crunchers can't fuck with Blueberry Hill. And, sorry skinnies, but 70s Elvis never sang better. And then there's Pavarotti. And Brian Wilson was a roly poly man when he made Pet Sounds and Smile. And John Coltrane was a pretty big guy when Love Supreme came out. Still, if you think skinny = great music, you should all go off and listen to some Paris Hilton outtakes.
[Edited 8/5/06 14:06pm]

Shapeshifter said:

Yall do realize that the only reason Jermaine Dupri is being mentioned is because he's head of Virgin Records Urban Division, right? I'm pretty sure that will be the only reason his name appears on the credits...

And I fully co-sign with KoolEaze... and Shapeshifter

the just read Shapeshifter's comments edit
[Edited 8/5/06 14:13pm]

Dangelo is a one album wonder

He is not the good on the keys, he mumbles, his lyrics are hit and miss, and a poor work ethic

He has few fans left, specially now that he is looking like the late ODB



However I smell an Emancipation of Dangelo type project coming out with a bunch of guest, etc, some corny rap collabs with Common, etc.

workingupahiyellasweat said:

As of right now, you're correct... if by "one" you mean "two."

workingupahiyellasweat said:

workingupahiyellasweat said:

Aww shit, here you go

D'Angelo is gonna do his thang again and again. the brother is a true talent.

Wagner couldn't play the piano to save his life - you don't have to be an instrumental virtuoso to write songs.

BSK3601 said:

Good point.

we shall see....

all this talk has made me refeed my stereo voodoo!

Prospect said:

As I'm reading this...I just got finished watching D'Angelo's performance of "Devil's Pie" and I'm laughing @ the naysayers. That performance was singlehandedly one of the most incredible performances by a black artist on national TV - ever! If you are a true student of funk and soul then you would easily recognize the early funk/rock vibe of Funkadelic, Band Of Gypsys, Cameo, and Dirty Mind-era Prince that was in that performance. It's from the MTV Movie Awards of 2000 and he was riding high with the success of the Voodoo. See, to really appreciate D'Angelo you gotta go to the show, or at least have witnessed it. The Voodoo tour carried all the elements and D'Angelo borrowed a lot from James, Prince, George, and Fela Kuti. Let's take our minds off the long hiatus for a second and remember this artist as a cat who took some very necessary chances in soul music during a time when many were forced to believe that Sisqo should be within the same sentence as someone like D'Angelo. D'Angelo gots some demoms to face and conquer and we can only hope that he pulls back in a major way - I know he can. All the greats that went through the fire always come back with some incredible music doubling as a big middle finger to the doubters. You gotta think....this man came into the industry during a time when there was a dire need of something new and truly soulful and dude came through with the Tribe Called Quest style production stacking live instrumentation on top and had the songwriting to go with it. The Prince influence was more than obvious, but it was done so incredibly slick that you really could not front! We would have killed to have Prince do an album like that back then; like if Prince would have did some reverse Milli Vanilli shit an actually replaced D'Angelo vocals and instrumentation with his own and dropped that album in place of "The Gold Experience" (all of this of course is just to make an example. We all know too well that Prince would never have to do something like that, but that's simply an easy way to describe D'Angelo's vibe during that time.....). His vocal and musical arrangements on that album took things to the next level and inspired other different soul artists to remain "different"(Musiq, Dwele, John Legend, trust me....D'Angelo convinced a lot of cats that they can be themselves or "like him" if you take a look at some of these cats - without saying no names...). The word for the longest time is that he's been honing his guitar chops and he wants to come back showcasing those skills and putting them up front in his new music. I say all of this because it all goes back to that performance I mentioned earlier in this post. He took it there and I feel like we are going to get an album showing more of that side of him in addition to the organic soul stuff that he normally does. We all know about his problems with the drugs and the alcohol, but I also know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has had his struggles with the label in allowing him to do what he really wants to do which is put out an album of his own personal liking. That will make anyone wihtdrawn and frustrated to a point of self-destruction and dude had got to have his reasons for being incognito for so long. He's not so concerned with making his label or anyone else wanting to hear him do a typical "Neo-soul" album....this cat is much too deep to play that card forever. D'Angelo's thing is all about timing and we just have to wait and see what he's gonna do.

This is my dream for a new D'Angelo project: work with Lewis Taylor, Karriem Riggins, and Meshell Ndegeocello. Make it 10 songs long. Lewis for a rock joint, Karriem for a hip-hop joint, Meshell for a funk joint, and D on everything else throughout the rest of the album. Lose the weight and get cut again. Cut the cornrows and get a James Brown style 'fro that's a bit shorter in length and keep it nappy. Rock the full beard, keep it trimmed down but keep the goatee a bit thicker. Get seriously funky on the threads....some full-on rock star shit complete with shades.

KoolEaze said:

Prince fans are still mad at D for "Untitled". Prior to that, they believed that Prince was the only one who could drop something like that till D showed them differently. Ever since then its been...well. you see.
I'll be peeping his next venture out for sure. The haters will, too. They can say what they want. They'll be listening.

i cant see any hate on here-just a few viewpoints-prince fans hate d'angelo-are you high on crack?

D has got nothin but love on this site.