D’Angelo Is Operating on Unutilized Tune, Raphael Saadiq Says: ‘D’s In a Excellent Field’

Raphael Saadiq lately perceptible that he’s studying find out how to play games piano and that D’Angelo is one in all his largest supporters — and that the elusive singer is making brandnew track.

“D’s in a good space right now,” Saadiq mentioned all through an look at the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “I talk to him a couple times. He’s excited. We don’t talk much, but when we do talk it’s crazy, like, ‘Oh, you gotta hear this!’ 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.’”

Saadiq added: “He’s working on six pieces right now and he seems super excited. He’s in control of his own destiny at this point. He has a management team, but they can’t make him do anything that he don’t wanna do. He knows it’s on him now and I think that’s a different angle that he’s coming from.”

A kind of songs is from their Lynwood Rose days, once they shaped a short-lived workforce with A Tribe Called Quest‘s Q-Tip. “I think it’s taking to be a file on D’Angelo’s brandnew copy when it comes out, a file that all of us did in combination,” Saadiq mentioned. “Lynwood Rose lives. I’m playing bass, D’s playing, me and D is singing backgrounds. It’s funky as hell too. D is a bad boy. … It’s aged well. Good music ages well.”

The singer has popped out right here and there since liberating his most up-to-date copy, Dull Messiah, in 2014. In 2018, he contributed to the Crimson Lifeless Redemption 2 soundtrack (he’s a big fan of the series) with the music “May I? Stand Unshaken” next Rockstar Video games despatched him the sport to check. He did a Verzuz on the Apollo in 2021 that was once necessarily a solo prepared that includes a few of his pals, and he additionally contributed to some other soundtrack along Jay-Z on “I Want You Forever” from The Keep of Clarence exempt ultimate moment.

You’ll pay attention to all the episode here.