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

[We Major]

I've never really listened to D'Angelo much but I picked this up earlier and my god

 

[S.W.A.G.]

Still early days but....

96 on Metacritic...

http://www.metacritic.com/music/black-messiah/dangelo

 

[criminology]

As a producer, it makes me wanna throw my laptop in the trash

If I was a musician I'd probably feel the same way. Musically it's just an amazing album.

But remember it took 14 years + all the years before that mastering his craft + all the years of collective experience of other people working on the album. But most of all, you don't get to hear all his failures from the last decade like you do for your own work.

 

[Papa LaBas]

How much is the At I'm at target?

13.99

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Y'all are severely overatting this...
Not even close to the first 2 albums. Production is not amazing.

 

[Rapmastermind]

D'angelo got Nick Jonas putting his young fans on, lol:

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Nick Jonas ‏@nickjonas 4h4 hours ago
This record is out of control. #inspired D'Angelo & the Vangaurd #NP Betray My Heart http://instagram.com/p/wrmy1hkVfd/

 

[wire28]

This is Black Superhero Music right here



#BlackExcellence

copping off the strength of this and the cover

 

[Ensi]

The instrumentation is so good.

 

[FlyRy]

Still early days but....

96 on Metacritic...

http://www.metacritic.com/music/black-messiah/dangelo

"Black Messiah doesn’t sound like anything else this year, or maybe even the last decade. It’s an album that pays homage to the history of black music, from blues, funk, and soul through to hip-hop and modern R&B while remaining in touch with current socio-economic and political struggles. Maybe that’s because those modern struggles aren’t so different from the ones in the past. Black Messiah confirms that music holds the power to challenge and comfort, to take us someplace spiritual, political, and existential. It’s beautifully, devastatingly human."

 

[Eternal Tecate]

Real talk D has to have one of the top 5 voices of all time

 

[awkwardblackgirl]

Listening to this album on a quality system takes the experience to another level

 

[PFranco]

Reading that pitchfork article on why he rushed the album.. honestly so touching. Really makes the socially conscious songs that much better for me.

http://pitchfork.com/news/57870-dangelo-rushed-to-release-black-messiah-following-police-protests/

 

[PFranco]

"Black Messiah doesn’t sound like anything else this year, or maybe even the last decade. It’s an album that pays homage to the history of black music, from blues, funk, and soul through to hip-hop and modern R&B while remaining in touch with current socio-economic and political struggles. Maybe that’s because those modern struggles aren’t so different from the ones in the past. Black Messiah confirms that music holds the power to challenge and comfort, to take us someplace spiritual, political, and existential. It’s beautifully, devastatingly human."

Can't even explain how accurate this is man.

 

[NormanConnors]

If I was a musician I'd probably feel the same way. Musically it's just an amazing album.

But remember it took 14 years + all the years before that mastering his craft + all the years of collective experience of other people working on the album. But most of all, you don't get to hear all his failures from the last decade like you do for your own work.

hell of a post

 

[The G.O.D II]

Another life on a hunnid thousand trillion