D’Angleo’s aim, he said, was to reclaim R&B. Though inspired by the birth of his children and trips back to Virginia, Voodoo’s roots are in 1960s, ‘70s and ’80s funk and soul a nostalgic nod to the ideas and inventions of black music trailblazers powered by avant-garde hip-hop and jazz-influenced rhythms. In the interim he’d fathered two children, switched managers and jumped to a new record label. But since its release, D’Angelo had become distracted by weed and weightlifting, he’d been shaken by the deaths of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. 1995’s debut Brown Sugar had already strategically positioned D’Angelo-born Michael Eugene Archer and Virginia-raised to a Pentecostal preacher father-as the next Hendrix-like deity in black music, after Prince and maybe Lenny Kravitz. The album is the product of perfectionism, obsession and paranoia. But the first great album of the new millennium was born in the 1990s, and its muggy grooves capture the sound of premillennial anxiety. Voodoo hit store shelves on January 25th 2000, just a few weeks after the New Year celebrations to end them all.
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