D’Angelo is back with a secret album, and he is back in shape. Itunes describes D’Angelo as “D’Angelo was one of the founders and leading lights of the neo-soul movement of the mid- to late ’90s, which aimed to bring the organic flavor of classic R&B back to the hip-hop age. Modeling himself on the likes of Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Curtis Mayfield, and Al Green, D’Angelo’s influences didn’t just come across in his vocal style — like most of those artists, he wrote his own material, and frequently produced it as well, helping to revive the concept of the R&B auteur. His debut album, Brown Sugar, gradually earned him an audience so devoted that the follow-up, Voodoo, debuted at number one despite a five-year wait in between. The wait for his third album — at one point tentatively titled James River — was much longer.” Listen to “Really Love 2014.” Lifted from the new album project titled “Black Messiah.” in full below.
