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whose music ignited a generation—and reasserted the power of rock and roll

Steve Matteo delves deep into the complex history of these sessions

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D’Angelo’s Voodoo elvis ” —Entertainment Weeklyoodoo , D'Angelo's much anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as "neo soul," a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a product of heightened emotions and fused sensitivities; an amalgam of soul, rock, jazz, gospel, hip hop, and Afrobeats. D'Angelo put to music his own pleasures and insecurities as a man child in the promised land. It was both a tribute to his musical