D'Angelo D'ejected

-- Don King of the Mountain, September 26th, 2005.

Obviously, he feels broken up.

But enough joking - it doesn't sound good at all.

Earlier this month, he received a suspended prison sentence after being convicted of cocaine possession. Archer had faced three years in prison.

I know. Sorry. All fingers crossed.

xpost!

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050926/capt.rm10209261655.people_d_angelo_rm102.jpg

Doesn't he realize Kanye West already used getting in a car accident as a gimmick..? Sheesh.

at least they didn't run this story with a picture of fat d'angelo

"Had [D'Angelo] known what the repercussions of 'Untitled' would've been, I don't think he would've done it."

perhaps you thought no-one would notice the greatest post in the history of ILM, but, sir, you were mistaken

That interview is horrifying:

I mean, everyone's insecure, but he's insecure to the level where I felt as though I had to lose myself and play cheerleader. Some nights on tour he'd look in the mirror and say, "I don't look like the video ['Untitled,' which featured nothing but a chiseled, naked D'Angelo from the waist up.]" It was totally in his mind, on some Kate Moss shit. So, he'd say, "Lemme do 200 more stomach crunches." He'd literally hold the show up for half an hour just to do crunches. We would hold the show for an hour and a half if he didn't feel mentally prepared or physically prepared. Some shows got cancelled because he didn't feel physically prepared, but it was such a delusion.

He's recording. I heard he's got, like, four songs done. I know him, he'll stop at song twelve. But what he wants is to get fat. He doesn't want his braider braiding every nook and cranny of his hair. He doesn't wanna have to have ripples in his stomach. He doesn't want the pressure of being "Untitled" the video.

God I miss D'Angelo. WAKE UP

strongo otm.

Long-absent R&B singer D’Angelo will have a busy year, if all goes according to plan.
by Craig Belcher

As Michael “D’Angelo” Archer faced legal problems in recent years that threatened to permanently derail his career, the promise of new material from the platinum-selling R&B singer seemed fragile. An album rumored to be called “James River” never surfaced. New music from the singer remained “in the works” and not in the stores. But earlier this month something happened. One of the three D’Angelo projects scheduled for this year actually came out.

“The Best So Far,” a collection of songs from both of his previous albums, coupled with songs from soundtracks and a DVD of all his music videos, was released earlier this month. Later this year, deluxe versions of his debut “Brown Sugar” and the follow-up “Voodoo” are scheduled to hit stores. Predictably, these releases will cover a lot of familiar territory, without the slightest hint of what the singer sounds like now. One person who’s heard the new music isn’t telling much.

“He’s written enough for three or four albums,” says his manager, Lindsay Guion. The music industry veteran is quick to discuss the singer’s new record contract with RCA, his recent weight loss and his studio work ethic. But if you want to know about the music, you’ll have to wait.

“I’m not at liberty to discuss song titles at this time,” he says.

The as-yet-untitled project features collaborations with producer Raphael Saadiq, John Mayer and Cee-Lo Green and is being recorded in San Francisco and Los Angeles. A single is scheduled for a fall release, with an album of new material to follow in early 2009. That would make four releases within a year for the singer, an effort that requires cooperation from different record companies, a committed artist and someone with solid connections to make sure everything’s on point. Luckily, D’Angelo has that special someone.

Enter Clive Davis, a respected music industry executive who guided the careers of Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys and many others. Davis signed D’Angelo to RCA Music Group and J Records shortly after his most recent legal problems stemming from a 2005 car accident, concluded in a Powhatan County courtroom. With an industry heavyweight like Davis on his side and a new record deal, a career restoration seems entirely plausible, even though the legendary star-maker has since stepped down as the chief executive of Sony BMG Music Group.

Guion says D’Angelo has made some changes of his own since his 2006 court appearance, the last time he was photographed by the media. He’s lost about 70 pounds, thanks to a regimen of weightlifting, diet and martial arts. Also, the 34-year-old singer, who often ran into trouble behind the wheel, now has a driver, he says.

“I think he’s very focused right now,” Guion says. “He looks good, he feels good and he’s performing better.”

Guion says the release of D’Angelo’s older material will position the Pentecostal minister’s son for a triumphant return.

“The timing was perfect for Virgin/EMI to release ‘The Best So Far,’” he says. “Once that happens, his audience is going to be ready for new music from him.”

After almost a decade between releases, his audience is just hoping the new music will be ready.

Link from Richmond's Style Weekly:
http://www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=17241

some day i will shoot a video with ned enacting the "untitled (how does it feel?)" clip.

-- strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:30 AM

I didn't hear he picked up Davis.
The leaked music I heard on the 'yoda' street tape sounded interesting, but the quality was so bad I couldn't tell. D'Angelo's a favorite, I really really really hope he's going a good direction again.

try and find the song a 1000 deaths. its got dilla/q-tip amplified-ish production.

i notice that the article doesnt really address the drugs

You often see that Clive Davis "guided the careers of Bruce Springsteen and Janis Joplin." How true is this? His tenure as president of Columbia ended in 1973, when he was fired, and Springsteen had released exactly one album at that point, & it didn't sell very well. Did he continue "guiding his career" after Columbia fired him? Janis Joplin's entire career as a recording artist lasted a little over two years, and her solo run was pretty much a mess. Yes, the records sold pretty well, but they were by no means blockbusters (though sales of Pearl took off after she died). How did she benefit from his guidance, when her only real success happened after she OD'd?

Gotta give him Alicia Keys, Rod Stewart, and Santana, though.

I HIGHLY advise the book Hit Men by Frederick Dannen to get a full (and seemingly unbiased) story on Clive Davis and the inner struggles of CBS over the years

http://www6.mygazines.com/magazines/view/882/?offset=10&page=2

really interesting article; I would pay good money to hear a cee-lo/ d'angelo duet.

i just want a new album. :(

anyone know how old his cover of 'she's always in my hair' is? sounds like ?uestlove on there so i assume it's pretty old, but so good.

ive never heard voodoo and i wasn't really listening to r&b at all when he was big but that's a great article

listen to voodoo.

the Prince cover was on the Scream 2 soundtrack in '98, so it's from between the first two albums. never heard it but I really should, I love the original.

Jordan you're not allowed to post to ILX until you hear Voodoo.

Voodoo is amazing, easily the best r&b album of its decade

listen to voodoo.

-- Jordan, Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:04 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Voodoo is amazing, easily the best r&b album of its decade

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 24 July 2008 18:07 (22 seconds ago)

I dunno about all that... certainly not "easily" but it is an excellent album.

yeah, i like Voodoo but y'all need to simmer down.

and he's coming out with a new album next year on Jive.

(may be worth noting that I think the vast majority of r&b from the 90s is unlistenable crap)

weren't ppl talking about it recently on ilm? i read the 3 d'angelo threads and there wasn't anything from like the past 2 months. distinctly remember max talking about it

well, 1. ur ridiculously rong and 2. voodoo came out in 2000

lolz for some reason I thought it was '98 or '99

(not that 00s r&b is all that much improved from the 90s or anything)

when sexual objectification happens to an entertainer I wonder what the world is coming to

(no hater here, love D'Angelo, but I swear half the women who ever got into the music biz must have put up with considerably worse objectification scenarios and not gone nuts about it, and if they did, they'd get called whiners)

you can hear the prince song here: http://www.rapsterrecords.com/controversy/

actually i agree with shakey, i've never heard anything quite like voodoo.

"actually"

(no hater here, love D'Angelo, but I swear half the women who ever got into the music biz must have put up with considerably worse objectification scenarios and not gone nuts about it, and if they did, they'd get called whiners)

only half?

yeah John's right, there's way more Axl Rose "delicate genius" bullshit keeping him from releasing an album for 8 years than the psychological scars indirectly caused by making a sexy music video.

his behavior/career arc is completely predictable

only half?

estimate higher and get called "shrill"

yeah John's right, there's way more Axl Rose "delicate genius" bullshit keeping him from releasing an album for 8 years than the psychological scars indirectly caused by making a sexy music video.

-- some dude, Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:20 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

this is basically what the article says. ppl saying that he wants to make the album by himself since there he still has insecurities about being a sex object over an artist but now he has no editors and a bunch of yes men. brought up years ago badu as a parallel (minus the sex object part)

She's Always in My Hair is great; supersolid cover. Prince and D'Angelo hung out for awhile; I think Movie Star is supposed to be about him?

Other obscure D worth tracking down: Talk Shit 2 Ya off the Baby Boy soundtrack, Tell Me with Slum Village, I Found My Smile Again on the Space Jam Soundtrack(!), an awesome cover of Water No Get Enemy on Red Hot and Riot, Your Precious Love with Erykah Badu (!!!) on the Marvin is 60 tribute album, Everyday with babymama Angie Stone...

His live stuff is pretty untouchable as well.

Jordan, if you'd benefit from a solid mp3 disc of obscurities and live stuff, hit me up off ILX.

hey me too!

Aren't you britisher? Holla but bring a postman.

lolz never been mistaken for a britishes before! I R 'Murican

an awesome cover of Water No Get Enemy

!!!

I'm still not totally convinced that the 3 songs D'Angelo did with Raphael Saadiq ("Lady," "Untitled" and "Be Here") aren't better than everything else he did w/o Saadiq.

Water No Get Enemy is cool but I think he just plays keys on that?

saadiq is awesome, i wish that band that they were going to do together had worked out.

forks, is your ilx e-mail legit?

Should be legit email.
He sings on that Water track as well.
This is a knockout live acoustic piano version of Africa that he did for a radio station (I think) prior to the release of Voodoo; so sweet and kind and amazing. enjoy.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V40JRCY6

And one more, cuz it's slow at work: Spanish Joint from the same session:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=25MSXIXN

nice. his keyboard chops are better than i thought!

Doesn't Tony Allen play on that "Water..." cover also? That Red Hot & Riot CD was great.

wow, thanks forks

nice

"He's coming back. And he looks great, by the way."

:D

:D

:D

:D

:D

:D'Angelo

yes!D

this is great news! ive been thinking about voodoo a lot recently.

lol. ill believe all that when i actually hear something new.

WHY WOULD BILLBOARD.COM LIE

D:

did no one else see the words "mark" and "ronson" in that

i hope prince isnt singing on their collabo (he could just play guitar like on that common track from ec)

i hope he is!

at first i was like "aww, mark ronson" but who cares. i'd rather have d'angelo singing over nu-retro soul tracks than no d'angelo at all.

this album will prob be a lot more commercial than what hes done in the past. hes going to have to do something big to get peoples attention (and to show them why anyone still cares after this long). hopefully ronson will give him something that doesnt sound like the new mastersounds produced by dangermouse.

this and the new outkast triple album are the things I'm most interested in hearing in 09; both are shimmery like mirages.

do triple albums ever materialise? ;)

Prince released 2 of them!

thats prince though. i dont know if i even want a triple from outkast at this point though - id rather they just do one really tight single and go out in (concise) style.

rumor last i heard was that there'd be a big boi album, followed by a dre album followed by an outkast album but that was all supposed to happen in Q4'08 so who knows.

This is waaaay into believe it when I see it territory.

oh ye of little faith.

chinese democracy came out, obama is president, anything can happen, the future is now, etc.

damn straight.

(Beatles reunion inevitable?)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0603/ButchG17/Ammo%20pics/556vs223.jpg

i kid, i kid

chinese democracy came out, obama is president, anything can happen, the future is now, etc.

― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:29 AM Bookmark

Yeah, and I believe those things.......now that I've seen them.

excerpt from new ?estlove interview...

DO YOU MIND COMMENTING AT ALL ON THE RECENT BUZZ THAT JAMES RIVER IS COMING OUT IN THE NEXT MONTHS?

He's not calling it James River and in a pleasant surprise, I'm one of the last elements to be added. Which basically means he's at least more than halfway done, which in D'Angelo speak is a miracle.

I'VE HEARD VARIOUS THINGS, LIKE, IT HAS A MORE ROCK ELEMENT, IT'S THIS, IT'S THAT. CAN YOU COMMENT AT ALL?

I can only go on, the material I've worked ... the last I touched this record was in 2004 and that was when he was going all the way rock. However, I am to believe at least in our conversations that he did 100 percent just actually a clean slate. I knew that Erykah's New Amerykah was real inspirational to him, so perhaps he's taken a more esoteric turn. But I'm actually not going to hear none of the material until I get to Los Angeles the day after tomorrow.

hmmm.. influenced by New Amerykah....

I actually do believe that this is coming out this year btw.

Yeah, sounds like it could happen.

i've never heard this before, but it's pretty dirty and amazing. cover of roy ayer's "everybody loves the sunshine"

http://basilikacoop.textdriven.com/inner/sunshine/

Super excited if a.) new d'angelo happens anytime soon and b.) sounds anything like New Amerykah whatsoever

"he was going all the way rock"

:(

I have a feeling "all the way rock" to D'Angelo and ?uestlove means sounding like Funkadelic.

yeah, i imagine that sounding like their cover of "she's always in my hair", which is awesome btw

oh man, we just booked like 14 shows with the roots along with "special guests" ah hope D shows up ah hope ah hope

http://www.zshare.net/audio/7832052239bf2e4c

new snippet of his song with mark ronson

impossible to tell much about it cos its so short but sounds very diff for him, though it still sounds like him after all the effects oddly.

TV on the D'Angelo.

Better than that, sorry.

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/Audio-Mark-Ronson-Glass-Mountain-Trust-feat.-DAngelo.html

oh god sounds like sub-Ceelo :(

mark ronson, great.

*sigh

D'angelo S'ucking

omg this is terrible

at least he's still got his voice and stepped foot in a studio, i don't think he can be blamed for the quality of the material

D'Angelo D'elisted

Man this sounds NOTHING like D'Angelo
it is also not good
but i'm with Jordan: anything that involves him with finished product has my attention

can someone clear this up real quick-- is this LITERALLY the first thing he's been on since Voodoo?

no, he's definitely done some guest work since. At least one thing with Saadiq.

omg that's execrable.

Probably the worst song on that Ronson record.

did a song w/ j dilla too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdZK0HeYkwM

also this (great song):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdZaQMocMpU

^^^otm

ronson's producing his new album rite?? aiyyyyiyi

old post-voodoo fave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxhNNKFg6s

http://www.soulified.com/2010/06/dangelo-a-sad-state-for-a-great-talent/
^six mixtapes of obscurities, remixes and live stuff

you're welcome.

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/dangelo-pleads-guilty-hooker-case?wpisrc=obinsite

:(

Based on that mugshot, I'm guessing he doesn't have the physique he once did.

guys 2005 called, it wanted to tell you that D'Angelo's out of shape

this fat fuck's never gonna make another record, is he?

D'Angelo D'onuts

Perpetua's on the RS vice beat

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dangelo-pleads-guilty-to-prostitution-charge-20110314

Were those weight-based insults? Take it to the Gilbert Godfried thread.

the degree of sadness i have on the collapse of D'Angelo's promise is leviathan

this guy. will he ever release anything again?

he looks like he ate Questlove

a couple years ago Raphael Saadiq said he was recording at the same studio as D'Angelo and he seemed to be doing well and getting ready to put out an album, between Erykah and Maxwell both coming back strong from long breaks it seemed like a good time for him to get back out there, but now it feels like that moment has passed.

sad. he's the new Sly Stone.

he should do a record with matthew sweet

haha his music always prompted comparisons that were prematurely grand, so it goes with his non-musical struggles and absences (xpost)

from overhyped to over-over-weight. poor guy.

i dont believe anything i hear anymore about how hes in the studio and has a load of material just ready to go. or maybe the material is just poor. who knows. i guess its good mark ronson managed to get something out of him. good luck to anyone else.

i'm not writing him off till he's dead but the leaked material i heard was noodly and not so great

he looks like he ate Questlove

I lol'd

that'd give you a hell of a hairball

this guy. will he ever release anything again?

yeah he was on the last Ronson album

that song kinda sucked

he's in shape!

http://lovesoulbounce.tumblr.com/post/8956329103/dangelo-x-raphael-saadiq-x-ali-shaheed-muhammad

i want to believe...

drudge fucking siren

http://twitter.com/#!/questlove/status/106947022199848961

*tries not to be cynical about this*

*fails*

repeat after me: "it's being mixed. it's being mixed. it's being mixed. it's being mixed. it's being mixed. it's being mixed..."

i...want to believe.

i want... to believe.

i want to be ... leave

I want to be...in my vagina?

how does it feel?

lol ship/forks

good work every1

Every few months I could have sworn I saw some update from ?uestlove about working with D'Angelo again, punctuated with stories of him being arrested again. I guess this can go on for years more.

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201206/dangelo-gq-june-2012-interview?printable=true

d'angelo - voodoo - classic or dud?

ah yes.

d'angelo d'efiant