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D’Angelo & The Roots Rock The House At Bonnaroo [VIDEO]

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It was a reunion of sorts for R&B singer D’Angelo and hip-hop band, The Roots at The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Tennessee. Drummer…

D’Angelo & The Roots Rock The House At Bonnaroo [VIDEO]

D’Angelo Talks To GQ About Gettin’ Off That Blow And Just Saying No To Madonna

Can you believe this is his first interview in 12 years??? D’Angelo has cleaned up his act and is preparing to finally release another album and he talks about his past struggles with fame and the road to his return with GQ. We’ve got some excerpts for you here: R&B Singer And Mother Of D’Angelo’s Son Angie Stone Recalls When Fame Started To Take Over : Stone remembers an event in Manhattan in September 1996 that was billed as Giorgio Armani’s tribute to D’Angelo. Stone—thirteen years older than D—was three months pregnant with their son. They headed to the event together in a limo, but as they neared the venue where D was going to perform, it suddenly pulled over. “He was asked to get into another car, where he would be escorted by Vivica Fox,” Stone says, her voice breaking slightly. The lissome Fox had just appeared with Will Smith in the blockbuster Independence Day. “It was a Hollywood moment. They wanted a trophy girl. I had to walk in behind them to flashing cameras. It started the wheels turning of what was yet to come.” D’Angelo Turned Down Madonna: When Madonna turned 39, she asked him to sing “Happy Birthday” at her party. One press report had her sitting on his lap and French-kissing him. In fact, two sources say that ultimately D rebuffed her advances at another gathering not long after. At that event, the sources say, Madonna walked over and told a woman sitting next to D, “I think you’re in my seat.” The woman got up. Madonna sat down and told him, “I’d like to know what you’re thinking.” To which D replied, “I’m thinking you’re rude.” Sorry but we love that one! The Energy Behind “Untitled” Was Less About Sex Than Food : Paul Hunter, the director hired to make the video, says his work was misunderstood: “Most people think the ‘Untitled’ video was about sex, but my direction was completely opposite of that. It was about his grandmother’s cooking.” I’ve stopped by Hunter’s office in Culver City, California, to hear how D’Angelo came to be filmed bare-chested (but for a gold cross on a chain around his neck), wearing only a pair of precariously low-slung pajama bottoms, looking like a wolf circling a b!tch in heat. Illuminated from every angle, he spins very slowly as the camera fetishizes his every ripple and drop of sweat. I’ve imagined a lot of things that inspired the song’s rousing lyrics (Love to make you wet / In between your thighs cause / I love when it comes inside of you), but collard greens weren’t among them. Hunter is quick to explain that he, like D, was raised in the Pentecostal church. “When I used to sing in the choir,” Hunter says, “after the rehearsal, you go in to eat. I remembered seeing the preacher looking at a lady’s skirt one week and then, the next Sunday, talking about how fornication is wrong.” Such mixed messages about the pleasures of the flesh were intertwined with the pleasures of the palate—part of the same sensual stew. “So I was like, ‘Think of your grandmother’s greens, how it smelled in the kitchen. What did the yams and fried chicken taste like? That’s what I want you to express.’ “ The video may have looked like foreplay, but it was actually about family, Hunter insists—about intimacy. Later, when I tell D’Angelo this, he says, “It’s so true: We talked about the Holy Ghost and the church before that take. The veil is the nudity and the sexuality. But what they’re really getting is the spirit.” That’s interesting right? Hit the flip for more D’Angelo quotes about the cost of fame and how he self destructed…

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?uestlove: “D’Angelo Taught Me To Embrace Sloppiness” [EXCLUSIVE]

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?uestlove spoke to fans of The Roots about their new album undun last night in New York City, and D’Angelo and sloppiness came up in the conversation. AllHipHop.com Founder and CEO Chuck Creekmur moderated the Q&A session, and ?uesto wasn’t talking about D’Angelo’s appearance when he used the word “sloppiness.” Prior to the release of The Roots’ album Illadelph Halflife in 1996, the group was criticized for not having music that was “dirty” enough sonically, ?uestlove explaned. At the time, the Wu-Tang Clan was riding high, and gritty beats were favored by most hip-hop fans. But The Roots were making warm and melodic music on their first two albums. D’Angelo Album In The “Home-Stretch” ?uest took the criticism to heart and wanted to make music that was felt like a “cold sounding machine.” But working with D’Angelo helped ?uestlove find the right balance between perfect production and the imperfect “sloppiness” of live soul music. ?uestlove Wants Black Thought To Get His Male Lauryn Hill On [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW] D’Angelo’s unabashed soul brought ?uestlove away from the mechanical sound The Roots had drifted towards, and helped bring the crew back to their foundation. The Roots are currently riding of wave of great publicity with the release of their outstanding and critically acclaimed album undun , which is in stores now. Check it out and hear ?uestlove and The Legendary Roots Crew embrace “sloppiness.”

?uestlove: “D’Angelo Taught Me To Embrace Sloppiness” [EXCLUSIVE]

D’Angelo Album In The “Home-Stretch”

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In addition to finishing up The Roots new album, ?uestlove has been working on D’Angelo’s anticipated comeback project. Even though there still isn’t an official release date for D’Angelo’s album, ?uesto told Billboard that it’s almost a wrap. “He’s in the home stretch right now,” said ?uestlove. “I know that Fred Wesley and the JB Horns just did a cut that Q-Tip did; I know he’s doing his vocals right now.” Get more info on the D’Angelo project here . RELATED POSTS: ?uestlove Says He’s Back In The Studio With D’Angelo D’Angelo Pleads Guilty To Disorderly Conduct After Soliciting Undercover Cop For Sex

D’Angelo Album In The “Home-Stretch”

D’Angelo Pleads Guilty To Disorderly Conduct After Soliciting Undercover Cop For Sex

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D’Angelo has entered a plea of guilty to disorderly conduct stemming from his March 2010 arrest in New York City for soliciting a cop who was undercover as a prostitute. Top 9 Music Videos Of The 2000s Samples of History: Inheriting Prince’s Funk D’Angelo, born Michael Eugene Archer, appeared in a Manhattan court room today to enter the plea to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct. Prosecutors say that D’Angelo’s offense was a violation and not a crime and that the star satisfied their conditions. No details about the deal they worked out have been released though. If the prosecutors were smart, they would’ve included a stipulation that demanded an album from the reclusive R&B singer who last released an album in 2000. #JustSayin… Spotted @ HipHopWired.com RELATED: D’Angelo Busted For Soliciting Oral Sex From Undercover Cop RELATED: D’Angelo Pleads Not Guilty To Solicitation Charges

D’Angelo Pleads Guilty To Disorderly Conduct After Soliciting Undercover Cop For Sex