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

[Knicksman20]

The chorus to 1000 Deaths:

"I won't nut up when we up thick in the crunch, Because a coward dies a thousand times, But a soldier only dies just once, Once, once."

 

[Adam3000]

Tied for 3rd all time among highest Metacritic scores for new albums with the minimum 15 reviews necessary to make their year end lists


Only albums scored higher are:

Brian Wilson "Smile" (technically was a new album but people had been listening to bootlegs for almost 40 years so it really was more of a reissue, which always inflates the score)

Loretta Lynn "Van Lear Rose" (the only country album I have ever bought, its that good)

Outkast "Stankonia" (tied with Black Messiah at 95)


@Big Mel

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Brehs - if you can find them - The Voodoo Outtakes are

Stumbled across some the other day - D playing 'Ex To The Next' by Gangstarr and 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden

 

[010101]

when sound nurtures nourishes and heals

d' is a spark but the true christ of this current/contemporary/pop music shyt is yet to emerge*

 

[ThaRealness]

What the fukkkkkkkkkk. Where did he record this shyt? must have been on the island of the lotus eaters. I aint e'en know that shyt was real

 

[ThaRealness]

They should have D'angelo playing on loudspeakers throughout the middle east

 

[Arnold]

I'm afraid I'm going to get tired of the album; I can't stop listening.

 

[XxBboyxX]

 

[Drew Wonder]

Aside from Another Life, I was underwhelmed upon the first listen. but I gained a new appreciation after reading all the lyrics. Real talk, Charade might be the best song about the black American experience I've ever heard. just perfectly sums up the post civil rights era disillusionment

[Verse 1]
Crawling through a systematic maze to demise
Pain in our eyes
Strain of drownin', wading through the 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 relay on
Inundated by media, virtual mind fukks in streams

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

dude is a genius

 

[blazn101]

Aside from Another Life, I was underwhelmed upon the first listen. but I gained a new appreciation after reading all the lyrics. Real talk, Charade might be the best song about the black American experience I've ever heard. just perfectly sums up the post civil rights era disillusionment



dude is a genius

That entire first verse is just...

 

[Drew Wonder]

That entire first verse is just...

Aside from Jay Elec, Mos or Lupe I don't think there's a socially conscious rapper out there today who could spit a better verse than that

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Is this album any good? Is it a concept album? I should prob cop it since he's from Chesterfield.

 

[awkwardblackgirl]

Anyone going to see him at the Apollo Theater? I just bought my ticket!

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

@Walt You heard this joint yet?

 

[dem bath salts]

really love still on repeat.
best rnb song in years