*According to music icon Raphael Saadiq, his pal D’Angelo is close to releasing his long-awaited fourth album.
“D’s in a good space,” Saadiq said on the new episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “He’s excited. He’s like, ‘you gotta play bass. I’ve got this track. I’m telling you, you got to get on it. It got your name all over it.’ … He’s working on six pieces right now and he seems super excited.”
One of the tracks D’Angelo is working on is a song recorded years ago by Linwood Rose, the supergroup he was briefly part of that included Saadiq, and rapper Q-Tip.
“I think it’s going to be a record on D’Angelo’s new album when it comes out, a record that we all did together,” said Saadiq. “Linwood Rose lives. I’m playing bass, D’s playing, me and D is singing backgrounds. It’s funky as hell, too. It’s like, D is a bad boy. … It’s aged well. Good music ages well.”
Saadiq and D’Angelo initially bonded over their mutual love of gospel music. The duo have been working together since D’Angelo’s debut album, and Saadiq produced and co-wrote the R&B crooner’s biggest hit, “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” from his “Voodoo” album.
Listen to Raphael Saadiq’s whole episode here.
D’Angelo told Rolling Stone in 2015, “I do want to put a lot of music out there. I feel like, in a lot of respects, that I’m just getting started.”
In 2019, he gave fans a peek into his life in the documentary “Devil’s Pie: D’Angelo.”
Directed by Dutch filmmaker and photographer Carine Bijlsma, the film combines rare and never-before-seen footage with interviews from the singer’s family, management, and collaborators such as Questlove, who offer insight into D’Angelo’s personal and professional life, Complex reported.
The film highlights D’Angelo’s substance abuse battle and the circumstances that prompted him to take a 14-year hiatus following the release of his “Voodoo” album in 2000.
Watch the trailer below.
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