I'm sorry, I don't get why she was called "legendary" in an ad hyping her new cd

scriptgirl said:

you pretty much answer yourself there

I mean I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything. I mean, yes, old girl can sing, but it's regular church sanging, nothing special.

It's just an ad to get people to buy her album

But don't most people just know her for being D'Angelo's ex, anyway?

i dont like her

scriptgirl said:

She dated D'Angelo!?!

midiscover said:

Yes

Where have you been? They have a son together, Michael. In the Send it on video, that little boy D'Angelo is putting the hat on is Michael. Angie says D dumped her due to industry and label pressure, saying they kept telling her he should be with a model type chick instead of her.

Um wow, I didn't know that

D also allegedly put a beating on Angie's ass as well

scriptgirl said:

Well if he could let the industry pressure him into making a decision about his personal life, then there wasn't true love there, now was it? She dated Calvin Richardson too. I liked her first cd, but after that, I haven't really followed her music. I don't think her stuff is legendary though.

She's boring.

This is what Angie told Essence-how is she gonna take credit for Crusin when Smokey wrote it?

"Angie broke it down..

“When I was dating him he wore glasses, had short hair and his pants were hanging down to his butt. He was just a 19-year-old kid with big shorts and nobody cared and no one saw his beauty but me. And I told him, “You are beautiful. I promise you when your record drops your lips are gonna become famous, your eyes - everything will become famous.

But he couldn’t see it because his self-esteem wasn’t where it is today. He didn’t even have an image and his hair was really short so I braided his hair with thread for his first album cover.

It wasn’t until Brown Sugar came out that people actually took a good look at him and said, “You know what? He’s fine.” Then all of a sudden, he’s so fine he shouldn’t be with me.”

She’s dead on with the success = fine theory. I’d add Mark Cuban’s rumored quote from a few years back. He was at a club and told his friends to call some girls to the table.. “Tell them I’m a billionaire.” Then laughed, you know how it is, “For every million my dick grows an inch.”

Angie also talked about her contribution to his debut album.

“To set the record straight, D’Angelo is a genius and he doesn’t need Angie or anybody to make him who he is. What people need to know is that we were in love with each other so my presence, my spirit, my gift, all of that flowed into our relationship.

We dated for four years and when you’re with someone you become them, we started to become each other and pick up each other’s musical habits. So where he was in his life as an individual had a lot to do with how he expressed those songs.

The only thing I can take credit for is “Cruisin,” which he couldn’t get done without me. I also wrote “Jones in My Bones.” � The rest of the world has placed this stigma between D’Angelo and me, but the truth hasn�t been told until now.

If anything, the beautiful part of Angie - the best friend, the confidant, the songwriter, the supportive lover - inspired his music.”
"

scriptgirl said:

is she speaking in third person about herself, referring to herself as Angie?

scriptgirl said:

Hmm, I've read this before, I think she said this around the time he was doing "Untitled" and the Voodoo album had just dropped. Sounds like she was really heartbroken.

yes. and was she hooking up with him when he was 19-isn't she old enough to be his mama?

scriptgirl said:

Yeah, but if they truly loved each other, then age is just a number. Older women go out with younger guys all the time, as long as he was over 18, then she was straight. Yeah it does seem weird to us, but to them it didn't I guess. My thing was, they didn't seem mismatched because of their age, it was just that they just didn't look right together.

scriptgirl said:

She was 12 years old when D'Angelo was born.

babybugz said:

And has a child by him.

19 and 31-too much of an age difference. If I was his mama, I woulda beat Angie's ass

I think Angie is very talented. I think she has done some really good songs (solo and her previous projects). My only problem with Angie is that her albums are so hit and miss.

daPrettyman said:

Well I don't really care for her latest single so that counts me out on buying this album.

She never was.

Yes, she is all that and then some. Everyone should buy her new album, it's really good! I loved how she showed respect through song to Miss Chaka tonight during the Soul Train Music Awards,

Fuck yeah! Columbia,SC baby

scriptgirl said:

Damn could've fooled me especially since he's been dormant
since 1999 with the exception of doing guest spots on
rappers cd's. I think Angie Stone is on the lips of more
people than D'Angelo these days.
[Edited 11/29/09 22:23pm]

Voodoo came out in 2000

scriptgirl said:

You stand correct. The top part of 2000 if my
memory serves me right.