I noticed alot of the black creative artists are like that. Its like paralysis by analysis
Dangelo
Andre3000
Sade
Lauryn
Badu
Mos
All of these people that get the genius label seem to not want to release shyt. Dangelos baby mama said he was mad his label releases Black Messiah. Many of those songs was 10 years old.
Yup
I’m sure it’s intimating once that that type of spotlight is on you and the industry, fans and critics are looking at you as the answer to all things and seek your music as guidance, enjoyable, fun, powerful, moving then you feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders and that’s a lot of pressure
I knew that a lot of those songs from Black Messiah were old because I remember hearing “Really Love” and “1,000 Deaths” years before they came out.
I also remember ?uestlove saying years before Black Messiah, how D’Angelo had a lot of the music done, it was like instrumentals without much lyrics and that he still needed to finish writing the songs.