Voodoo by D'angelo

Voodoo, D'Angelo's second album, came out on Virgin on January 25, 2000, after sessions through 1998 and 1999 at Electric Lady Studios in New York with a floating cast of players from the Soulquarians crew. D'Angelo produced most of it himself, with DJ Premier and Raphael Saadiq also in the credits, and he threw out the tidier song shapes of Brown Sugar in favor of loose, woozy funk that sits just behind the beat and simmers. Its songs wrestle with faith, sex, love, growing up and becoming a father.

It opened at the top of the Billboard 200 with 320,000 sold out of the gate and stayed on that chart for 33 weeks. The video for "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" made him a star and a lightning rod at once, and the tour that followed was dogged by cancellations as he chafed at being sold as a sex symbol. It won the Grammy for Best R&B Album, went platinum on its way past 1.7 million US copies, and Rolling Stone ranked it 28th among its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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