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D angelo voodoo album free download6/1/2023 ![]() Voodoo sold 320,000 copies in its first week of release and debuted at #1, a startling feat for a dense and challenging work from an artist who’d released one previous studio LP that hadn’t cracked the top 20 and was nearly five years old. Twenty years after its release Voodoo remains the greatest album-length synthesis of hip-hop and R&B ever made, as well as a work saddled with one of music’s more fraught and complicated legacies. Every young person who decides to write about music for a living tends to have one work that, more than any else, made them do it. I took it home and listened to it, and for what feels in hindsight like several years I barely ever stopped. I make this argument from nowhere resembling objectivity: On a January night 20 years ago tomorrow, I stood shivering outside of a Tower Records (R.I.P.) waiting for the opportunity to purchase D’Angelo’s Voodoo at midnight, a particular music-consumer experience that, in 2020, I can say with near certainty that I’ll never have again. One could argue - particularly if “one” is “me” - that the greatest album of the 21st century was released only about three weeks into it.
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