RIP D'Angelo

[supanegro]

damn im late finding this out but this death hit me hard. this dude was the man growing up but he stayed low key. My childhood is quickly disapearing but i feel for his son. lost his parents months apart.

 

[Flight]

RIP to a legend

 

[Lord Beasley]

RIP to the legend.

 

[DaMos Supreme]

R.I.P.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[altruicsense]

R.I.P

 

[Electric Relaxation]

Damn, I’d forgotten all about this episode of Atlanta, gotta watch it again.

“We are D’Angelo.”

 

[Mr Clean]

RIP

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[JustCKing]

My introduction to D'angelo was his Soul Train debut. That was the first time I heard "Brown Sugar" and was hooked. Not only did I like the song, but my mom did too. That was rare because my parents were brought up on the 60's and 70's music. I was 9, but I loved that song. Then he dropped "Lady", which was also a favorite of mine. The original and the remix were crazy.

Some of these artists pass and it is a simple R.I.P. and keep it moving, but being affected by their music is something else when they pass away.

 

[Majestyx]

one of my favorite hip hop/r&b remix fusion

 

[Air Nikes N Hats]

RIP to a Legend in D'Angelo. Also condolences to his son (with Angie) who has now lost both of his parents in a 7 month span.

 

[Midwest]

Simply one of the them ones! Devil pie is a vivid movie on wax! Listen D will never get his credit for his time here! RIP to one of my goats! Soul of soul power brother

 

[Piff Perkins]

Has to be mentioned how this process is downplayed or advised against. We had a really recent thread asking why “neo soul” died and much of the focus was on blaming the artists for being weird. But the actual reason was that eventually the white interest level moved on and labels couldn’t make money off it. So you go from these artists winning Grammys and being all over late night shows to nothing.

And we also have to talk about black people constantly moving on from “the past.” Prince lost his black audience and tried to win it back. Same way James Brown lost his. At some point there’s a moment where funk gets too close to other genres (like rock) and certain white people love it while black people move on to other grooves (rap, simple r&b, etc). Then white execs say see, this shyt is dead so we should focus on rap and r&b.

There’s not a lot of creative space for black artists to explore black music without execs getting frustrated.

 

[Peak]

This didnt feel real yesterday and has only really sunk in now. We're never gonna hear from old boy again...damn