Music
June, 2000
R&BArtistically Ambitious and carefully executed song cycles disappeared from black music after Prince's Sign o' the Times and Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation. Since then, the pickings have been slim. Most black pop albums are now defined by hit singles that can be turned into MTV videos. But D'Angelo's second album, Voodoo (Virgin), is a throwback. Five years after his celebrated debut, the Virginia-born singer-songwriter returns with a collection steeped in marijuana smoke, midtempo to slow rhyt...
