By the mid-'90s, most urban R&B had become rather predictable, working on similar combinations of soul and hip-hop or relying on vocal theatrics on slow, seductive numbers. With his debut album, Brown Sugar, the 21-year-old D'angelo crashed down some of those barriers. D'angelo concentrates on classic versions of soul and R&B, but unlike most of his contemporaries, he doesn't cut and paste older songs with hip-hop beats; instead, he attacks the forms with a hip-hop attitude, breathing new life into traditional forms. Read More
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