D’Angelo is getting ready to make a comeback!
Reportedly, he and Raphael Saadiq are working together on his upcoming album. During a recent appearance on the “Rolling Stone Music Now” podcast, Saadiq said that D’Angelo was in a good space about it.
“He’s excited. 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.’… He’s working on six pieces right now, and he seems super excited,” Saadiq said. “I think it’s going to be a record on D’Angelo’s new album when it comes out, a record that we all did together. Linwood Rose lives. I’m playing bass, D’s playing, me and D is singing backgrounds. It’s funky as hell, too. It’s like, D is a bad boy… It’s aged well. Good music ages well.”
This wasn’t the first time that the two had worked together. They worked on D’Angelo’s debut single, “Lady,” and Saadiq produced and co-wrote the hit “Untitled (How Does It Feel) from the 2000 album “Voodoo.”
The “Anniversary” singer, also talked about how they bonded over their shared gospel influences. “I think more of his soul came from his gospel roots, not Prince,” he said. “But Prince has a huge gospel background, too. He was able to camouflage it a lot in his songwriting. And I think D’Angelo is the same way, too.”
This will be the first album since the 2014 release of Black Messiah. During that time, he said that he “did not want to put a lot of music out there. I feel like, in a lot of respects, that I’m just getting started.”
There is no word on when this new album is set to be released.