My respects to a Great.
Return to the Lord, my g, and thank you for your service and your art

just watching his live performances on youtube is f***ing me up bad man

It was life changing. I’ve seen plenty of artists live, and seeing D was just EVERYTHING. There was never a dull moment in his set and it was just a great show from beginning to end. He was (still can’t seem to wrap my head around speaking about him in past tense) a hell of a performer.

Music Lessons with John Mayer
This Month's Lesson: An open letter to D'Angelo

by John Mayer | Dec 01 '04

Dear D'Angelo,
My name is John Mayer. You might know me from that "Your Body Is a Wonderland" song, or perhaps our mutual friend, Roots drummer ?uestlove, mentioned me to you. I'm writing to ask you to put out a follow-up to one of the few records to change my life forever, Voodoo .

When Voodoo came out in 2000, I stood in line at Tower Records in Atlanta at midnight to get it. Turns out, it set the gold standard for modern "neo" soul music. It's 2004, and I'm no less excited by it today than I was when I played it full blast in my mother's Plymouth Voyager on the way to my bullshit job. I drive a nicer car now, but I still listen to Voodoo and wonder what my albums would sound like if I took a bite off your style and what R&B would be like if you came back.

In contrast to the present age of gunmetal-gray hip-hop, with perfectly aligned beats and blips, Voodoo throbs. It's skin in the place of plastic. ?uestlove's drums serve as an atomic clock, while Pino Palladino's bass playing taunts the drums by showing the bar line just how late it can wake up and still arrive to work on time. I'm not even going to detail your impeccable vocal layering. You know what you did.

Yes, Voodoo isn't laced with perfect pop hooks, but then again it's so devoid of them that I never assumed you were worried about appeasing radio anyway. Its beauty is simplicity, a Japanese rock garden of hip-hop and R&B, and it's because of the negative space that I can still listen to it. There's nothing frivolous to get stuck in your head, so there's nothing to want out.

If you haven't recently committed any of yourself to tape, I'm begging you to put your suit and cape back on. Your contemporaries aren't going to ask you to come back; they're scared of having to be perched next to you. Only a lanky white boy like me can call you out of hiding. And if you need any help with those tunes, you know who to call. ?uestlove's got my number.

Are there any full live performance sets I can watch? Not just individual songs

The outpour of love from artists saying how much he influenced and inspired them is actually crazy, never seen anything like this

Yeah literally taking over every timeline

Original Pimp C story about the ASR 10

r.i.p.

Not since prince & mike

Can’t even listen to his music rn I know I’ll break down again

Reading the outpour of love is at least healing for now

voodoo is deadass my second favorite album oat bro i admire every second of this s***.. out of body experience

Was relistening to Devils Pie from Voodoo and it might be one of the greatest hybrids of Neo-Soul and classic Hip-Hop ever. He added his distinctive flavor to that song while allowing Premier his space to deliver what made his production magic back in the day.

@aristilde keep posting friend, im following everything

this isnt even the type of musician that passes and you go “damn we’ll never get more music now”

its beyond the music, he’s so established and his impact is eternal. rest in peace a real legend

NOOOO

If heaven exists, I hope he somewhere with Dilla, riffing ideas on the fly while Dilla programs a sick chop on his machine

Im one of those people who has heard of his greatest hits throughout life but never listened to a full album of his

Now listening to Voodoo with tears in my eyes.
No words
No words at all

You’re in for one hell of a ride