D'Angelo, The Vanguard - The Charade (Live on SNL) 

Nice post. Well put.

I always thought “Charade” was a nod to Prince and The Revolution’s “Parade” and “Around the World in a Day”. Especially the guitar riffs and licks.

Yesss!!!

Yup

Can’t leave out George Clinton…

Even more "relegated to savages, bound by the way of the deceivers." Our people have to wake up and leave this system behind. Everything about it is poison for us.

3 albums in a span of nearly 30 years is hardly “prolific”. Don’t get me wrong: those 3 albums are impeccable masterpieces and he’s an amazing artist. But you can’t use “prolific” when discussing D’Angelo.🙏

Yeah but where is his Sign o the Times abum...at the wrecka stow?

That was impressive! You can tell he enjoys playing both the drums and the song!

Yrakoy The whole band looks like they were genuinely having fun. Music is always the best when you really ENJOY what you're doing. We can feel it.

That's Prince's old drummer John Blackwell

bassgrease Yes and now we have a blond girl :-(

Also Justin Timberlake's drummer for the whole Future sex love sounds tour

Great post! I agree!

DeeRock Sounds like Genius to me he is one of the Best awesome yes!!!!!

+DeeRock This and both Kendrick performances on Colbert.

Yeap

So true. I applaud D'Angelo and his band! Great message! Historic performance!

Absolutely! If the message is sent through the music and performances, then there's no denying it because it is set into your consciousness! Kendrick and J Cole have recently done similar performances!

fledsup I wouldn't care if he was green with a unicorn horn coming from his chin. If the music sounds this good. People are talking bad about his weight, but even heavier he's a handsome guy. & that's coming from a straight male. I'm glad real music is back on the airwaves.

LivSimple I haven't seen Kendrick's performance yet. However, J Cole's performance on Letterman was emotional and great!

You hit it on the money, one word to sum up this performance, POWERFUL!!!

Very well said young man....and they say Bruno Mars is good. FOOH

Yeessssss EXACTLY!

Good post. I agree.

I love it!

+RON HUSTLEMAN Harris dude on drums also plays for Prince, Mr. John Blackwell

+kj Lee Oooooh snap

+RON HUSTLEMAN Harris Don't forget about Pino on bass

+Gibson Blues Cool!

+RON HUSTLEMAN Harris thanks for the Heads up I do see that is him. I did not see this episode and I did not even know he had a new Album D'angelo. I have been out of the loop for 10 years. Last album I bought Gwen Stefani & jewel Santana. Dayum!! I have been in a Solar Flare sleep. Jessie is Back. This does sound so much like 0(+>...LOL

Thanks for providing lyrics!

He never sings "and it pains". It's just just "crawling through a systematic maze to demise...". Sorry metrolyrics.

Wow these lyrics are so deep I knew a message was there but i could never hear the all of the lyrics, love it. When music makes you feel like this its a gift.

Thanks so much for posting the lyrics! It is not enough to say BLACK LIVES MATTER. A true musical artist and conscious thinker, Its Only Right that, he has at least one joint from his latest project about the social/political issues. Greatness In The Making! LONG LIVE THE BLACK MESSIAH (LMAO!)

AnadBeau Most of the album is actually. 1000 deaths is socially driven too. This album is a classic we should be extremely happy getting in these pretty dismal times of music and media.

😂

It's by a custom shop run by Neil Moser. They mostly make guitars for extreme metal bands, it's really weird seeing D'Angelo jocking one.

Alloflifedecays Does Neil Moser have an association with Minarik Guitars? The story behind D'Angelo's Minarik Diablo is that Jesse Johnson(the guitarist on the Stratocaster in this video) gave it to him as a gift.

Ah, no, I was just wrong. Saw a weird shape and an M on the headstock and made a bad call.

Why you think Jesse Johnson was right beside him

It is wizardry.

That is not the purpose!! That's just his style!

@Deese Knutz nah watch his interview with tavis smiley, hes a smart, genuine and well spoken guy.

@@williamperri3437 It's a guy with the name "Dees Nutz" not expecting much from his opinion

Dig that..

Thank you! I’ve been searching for the bass player for this song for almost an hour, google, Wikipedia, etc

Daniel Sharper i oh

Isaiah Shirley is also on the other Lead and BGV’s.

@@onlyonecandacehazzard thats Isaiah Sharkey

Nice post. Thanks for pointing out the Grand Central sign.

Ha! Will you tell them about Mike Brown and Eric Garner resisting arrest and/or attacking an officer? Are you going to tell your kids that bad things such as death can possibly happen when you resist arrest and/or attack an officer?

Scott Keith FOH with your racist bullsh*t.

Stacy M Ha! I gathered that info from CNN, MSNBC and the AP. Not only that, but I watched the video of him many times over. Also, you ask why was Brown's body left in the street for 5 hours? First of all, it was 4 hours and you are aware that a large angry crowd was forming around the crime scene threatening police, people running up to the body and shots were fired which prevented police from moving quicker. You can look that info up on the St. Louis Post Dispatch, which gives a time frame of the crime scene and why it took so long.

***** They did not kill Garner on purpose, John. Garner was breaking a NYC law and yes, it was a stupid one. It is the cops job to enforce those stupid laws that stupid politicians create, so blame the money grabbing politicians. The cops who came in contact with Garner did so in a CALM manner. This is not the first time Garner has been in trouble, but his 30 plus time, so Garner was known. Again, the two cops who were seen in the Garner video CALMLY approached Garner, which Garner grew angry and loud. They calmly told him what he did wrong, but Garner wasn't having any of it. When the two cops CALMLY went to arrest Garner, Garner RESISTED ARREST by pushing the hands of two cops away and told them "Please, do not touch me!" That is when the cop behind Garner, which Garner knew was behind, put his forearm around Garner's neck to RESTRAIN Garner and NOT kill him. At this moment, Garner could have easily said "Okay, okay, I give up", but he did not and kept moving around which forced the cops to put Garner on the ground. Yes, Garner could be LOUDLY and CLEARLY heard saying "I cannot breathe" multiple times, but do not you think someone who can be heard and loudly saying "I cannot breathe" is someone who can breathe because those who cannot breathe cannot speak?

SERIOUSLY

yeah because he was on his prince shyt. Imagine prince on guitar instead of jesse!

I agree with you. I heard him in an interview say it's not true but I still agree with you. He is one of the best musicians in history and should be revered for his genius not objectified as a sex object. Those 15 years without a new album was punishment for fans who forgot that. And Black Messiah is challenging for good reason.

@@ishtapinks I heard him say that in an interview as well. He also said that he would do it all over again too. Even though from many sources we've heard that the Untitled video was his demise.

deveroth Prince reincarnated

1,946 days later....still true :/

🗣“The Charaaaade” 🎶

I used to listen to it like 4 times an hour. Seriously at work I would put this on replay. You hear so many different things in terms of instruments and timing. Man this dude is a musical genius. This has a Prince feel to it. I love this shit.

Yup

Kendra Foster of p-funk

Indeed! I love this

Jessie Johnson from the Time on lead guitar !

IIIII KKKNNNNOOOOOWWWWW. I saw the apollo sign for d'angelo. 3 days later i went to get tix SOLD OUT. Tell me why i thought i could trick the system or find a loop hole to get them tix.lol maybe he will feel so great that night he announces an encore show.

yeah. everything was sold out as soon as I went to the ticket page. and the people who are reselling them aren't playing with those prices. I can't afford it. I really want to see him perform this album live. I saw him at Afro Punk and it was the greatest experience.

Hey ladies he's having another concert. Tix go on sale Friday. It's at the Best Buy theater in NY!

Shaina Robinson OMG! you are the absolute best. what site you use to buy tix? also, dd you go to the other show?? how was it? (I'm sure it was stellar, I just wanna hear about it lol)

Shaina Robinson no worries. Found the site. :)

Charles "Redd" Middleton...he's cold man

😆

My favorite drummer after Billy Cobham

This is timeless. 2 bad he did not do what prince did. I thought he would but this is still my dude and now Mononeon is killing it with the content!

Good question.

you know who.

Kemi Popoola we all know exactly who.

Xavier Leeds yea white people lol

Joaquin Games yep lol

Good post. Well said.