About damn time: New D'Angelo album *** "Black Messiah" Out Now on Itunes! *** (Stream)

[TheGodling]

Breh put it on and i grabbed my girl and my dog and the 3 of us danced together

That's my nikka Gosling, the coolest mafukka on earth!

@TheGodling

I came in here hella confused wondering why I was tagged in a D'Angelo thread.

Time to download the album though.

 

[Ukbrotha]

After playing Really Love, went to the kitchen looking at my mrs like

She was like

 

[I love Latina women]

not saying sly wasnt a part of it, it was a lot of groups and people, including parliament funkadelic etc. but its pretty much unanimous amongst musical historians that james brown is ground zero in the funk revolution. of course other cats came along and expanded upon his idea, including sly and them. but papas got a brand new bag, cold sweat are like the original templates for this music.

greg tate is probably the best writer/thinker on black music since amiri baraka. here was his obituary for brown where he talks about his influence

http://www.villagevoice.com/2006-12-26/music/eulogy-for-black-caesar/

Truth be told, JB remains the one Black truth we can all agree to agree on as a life-giving essential. Just ask Sly, Jimi, Miles, Fela, and Marley, because by the time the '70s rolled around they were all convinced James was the Answer. You can hear that for yourself in Fresh, Band of Gypsys, JackJohnson, Africa 70, Exodus, and everything that flowed from those funk-saturated templates. All the way to heaven, all the way to Parliament-Funkadelic, all the way to hiphop. No surprise that everybody attributes the way hiphop music sounds to JB—the Godfather, Jimmy Nolen, Clyde Stubblefield, and Maceo Parker knew they had built a rhythmcentric beast, a perpetual-motion-making machine whose gifts couldn't help but keep on giving. But dig, if you will, this picture: The streetwise poesy of hiphop lyrics is all his inspiration too. JB's every economical, anthropological utterance legitimized and laid bare the thought process of the 'hood's hardknockschooled philosophers, those organic Black intellectual Bamm-Bamms whose only book might be the Bible, but whose chiseled, charismatic bullet-point language was their bloodsoaked own. Point-blank, the vernacular priesthood of the MC begins with Mr. Brown, a man whose savior-like social vision, bottomless erotic optimism, and boundless capitalist ambition all found expression in his dolla-bill raps, his gangsta raps, his love raps, his protest raps, and his party raps for damn sure.

oh i know, trust me. my pops is one of the biggest james brown fans there is, so i grew up listenin' to and learnin' all about james brown and his place in music

but i also know how much sly's impact and influence in funk doesn't get as much credit and tends to get overlooked by some whenever there's talk of funk music

that's a really great write up, thanks for the link bruh

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Wiirdo]

This shyt is so fukking crazy. Gonna write a big piece on it soon to sum up all my feelings

 

[Budda]

This guy is up there with the greatest artists of any time, the level of music this man has produced, 3 straight game changing classics, him Erykah Badu Nas and Lauryn Hill are the best to come out of the 90's.

 

[Budda]

Really Love my be creeping up to my 5th favourite D'angelo song, after Africa, Lady, Brown Sugar and Devils Pie.

 

[Budda]

Prayer

 

[Wiirdo]

The Charade

Crawling through a systematic maze
And it pains to demise
Pain in our eyes
Strain of drownin', wading into your lies
Degradation so loud that you can't hear the sound of our cries (doo, doo)
All the dreamers have gone to the side of the road which we will lay on
Inundated by media, virtual mind fukks in streams

[CHORUS]
All we wanted was a chance to talk
'Stead we only got outlined in chalk
Feet have bled a million miles we've walked
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade

Perpetrators beware say a prayer if you dare for the believers
With a faith at the size of a seed enough to be redeemed (doo doo)
Relegated to savages bound by the way of the deceivers
So anchors be sure that you're sure we ain't no amateurs

[CHORUS]
All we wanted was a chance to talk
'Stead we only got outlined in chalk
Feet have bled a million miles we've walked
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade



[BRIDGE]
With the veil off our eyes we'll truly see
And we'll march on
And it really won't take too long
And it really won't take us very long



JESUS CHRIST

 

[Adam3000]

Is it good or a time waster?

 

[thaKEAF]

Off of more listening my favorites are:

Really Love
Back To The Future PT 1
Til Its Through
Another Life

 

[R=G]

I would rather listen to One In a Million...a real classic.

 

[shutterguy]

This hasn't left my cd player since 1am.......... . Betray My Heart is just amazingly funky..........

 

[Woodrow]

If this happens

 

[Da Rhythm Rebel]

The Charade

Crawling through a systematic maze
And it pains to demise
Pain in our eyes
Strain of drownin', wading into your lies
Degradation so loud that you can't hear the sound of our cries (doo, doo)
All the dreamers have gone to the side of the road which we will lay on
Inundated by media, virtual mind fukks in streams

[CHORUS]
All we wanted was a chance to talk
'Stead we only got outlined in chalk
Feet have bled a million miles we've walked
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade

Perpetrators beware say a prayer if you dare for the believers
With a faith at the size of a seed enough to be redeemed (doo doo)
Relegated to savages bound by the way of the deceivers
So anchors be sure that you're sure we ain't no amateurs

[CHORUS]
All we wanted was a chance to talk
'Stead we only got outlined in chalk
Feet have bled a million miles we've walked
Revealing at the end of the day, the charade



[BRIDGE]
With the veil off our eyes we'll truly see
And we'll march on
And it really won't take too long
And it really won't take us very long



JESUS CHRIST

came in here to post about this track

BREHS
"THE CHARADE" IS THE EPITOME OF BLACK EXCELLENCE

the way the drums are being played THROUGHOUT the track

at the 3:00 minute mark the way he says "ALL WE WANTED WAS A CHANCE TO TALK"

This is Black Superhero Music right here

I walked to work and had this on repeat and was each time I brought it back.

#BlackExcellence