Of course the single development that escaped his grasp was hip-hop. It was the culmination of 45 years or so of musical mastery encapsulated in 16 songs by a diminutive genius in Minneapolis. A full stop (or period, to my American friends) at the end of the sentence that was soul music. In 1987, Prince released what I consider the greatest album of all time ( Sign O’ The Times) and part of my intense love for that piece of art is the fact that it acts as a summation of all that came before it-a bouillabaisse of every major facet of black music in the 20th Century to that point. Initially stumped for a suitable analogy, I decided to use the image of a river of musical development flowing downstream through time, picking up the sediment of musical influences before emerging fully formed as the irrepressible glory of soul music. Some time ago, some dear friends asked me to explain to their young son what soul music is. Happy 20th Anniversary to D’Angelo’s second studio album Voodoo, originally released January 25, 2000.
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