Black Messiah: Hear a Playlist of Influences on D’Angelo’s Modern Soul Classic

After simmering for 14 years, Black Messiah finally bubbled over on December 15, 2014. The third album by D'Angelo, the erstwhile soul superstar, was ignited by the murders of Mike Brown and Eric Garner, unarmed black men each killed by white cops who, by the end of year, had been exonerated of criminal wrongdoing. If…

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