I remember catching this when it first leaked out. I can't remember the specific details but before the popularity of facebook, youtube, instagram, etc. Myspace was big and had some kind of link where P2P sharing of music was the thing. A lot of unreleased material from various artists was shared and just not hard to find. Soundcloud had just emerged as well and you could find more of the same rare unreleased jewels from artists of significance, sometimes by fans and other times the artists themselves. When I first heard this from one of those formats, it just blew my mind being the D'Angelo music fiend that I am. Then just like the leaked Really Love (around 2006 well before Black Messiah was officially released), it just magically disappeared. Yeah, they were definitely playing with our emotions. So nice to hear this again after all this time.
@@ATLS702 shoo is...Bob Marley said it best, "One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain, so hit me with music! Hit me wit music now! Bruise the life with music!"☺🎶🎶🎶
I was hoping that D' Angelo and Prince would have done a compliation. Like Prince did with Angie Stone On "You Make My Sun Shine"....Angie who was once involved with D'Angelo.
how do you mean stuck outside? I can't be certain as these are uncredited works but I'm pretty sure it's Quest. I would say it's possible D'angelo laid some drums in these sessions but because he says "go back to the thing" in an inordinate amount of time it leads me to believe it's a live recording, everyone's playing at the same time.
I like/this song because he said nothing and said so at the same time you have to think about how they use to communicate a long time ago he just was one of the ones that brought it back so thanks again
how on earth do more people not know about this track? Voodoo was one of the biggest albums of the last two decades. all these outtakes are just absolutely phenomenal. love this track so much; the most comfortable funk ever
I've never liked the studio version of Playa Playa and I skip it when listening to Voodoo. It's not a bad song I just think it would've been a better fit on the Space Jam soundtrack like originally intended
@@marvinkelley6339 it sounded great live on the Voodoo tour as an intro track and his engineer who follows me on Twitter has said it's a big reason they kept it on the album, I just don't think the studio version was a good fit on the album. I kinda just start listening from Devil's Pie onward
Jay Hughes you could call it R&B 🤷🏼♂️ D’angelo gets dubbed as the sort of originator of “Neo Soul” that’s where you’ll find music in semi the same vein
