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D’Angelo and The Vanguard – Black Messiah

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D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah

D’Angelo and the Vanguard – Black Messiah

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Black Messiah is D’Angelo’s third studio album, released 14 years after his sophomore effort, January 2000’s Voodoo. During the Voodoo Tour in 2000, D’Angelo felt that his sex symbol status eclipsed his credibility as a talented musician. When the tour was finished, he hid from the public eye in his Richmond, Virginia home, beginning his near fifteen-year hiatus.

The highly-anticipated follow-up to Voodoo suffered numerous setbacks, mainly due to D’Angelo’s personal issues: alcoholism, a DUI, drug possession, and deaths to close friends and relatives.

D’Angelo began working on his third studio album in 2002, but the progress made was “slow” according to his engineer Russell Elevado. Elevado provided an update on the album’s progress in January 2011, with ?uestlove teasing the album in December 2011, with a presumed 2012 release date, which was not met.

Black Messiah was intended to be released in 2015, but due to its political nature, the release date was brought forward following the death of Michael Brown and Eric Garner by the hands of white police officers. D and his label RCA Records spent a month working many all-nighters to be able to finish the album as soon as possible.

Black Messiah debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 117,000 copies in its first week. Two singles were released from the album: “Really Love” which peaked at #43 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and “Betray My Heart” which failed to chart. The album ranked #118 on Billboard’s 2014 year-end chart and #12 on Billboard’s 2014 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums year-end chart.

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