Tue Sep 10 17:11:22 UTC 2024: ## D’Angelo Working on New Album, “Black Messiah” Follow-Up, Says Collaborator Raphael Saadiq
**TORONTO, CANADA -** Ten years after the release of his critically acclaimed album “Black Messiah,” D’Angelo is reportedly hard at work on a follow-up. This news comes from his friend and collaborator, Raphael Saadiq, who recently revealed D’Angelo’s excitement for the new project on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast.
“He’s in a good space,” Saadiq shared. “He’s excited. He’s like, ‘You gotta play bass. I’ve got this track. I’m telling you, you got to get on it. It got your name all over it.'” Saadiq, who produced and co-wrote D’Angelo’s “Untitled (How Does It Feel),” went on to say that D’Angelo is currently working on six new tracks and is “super excited” about them.
One of these tracks, according to Saadiq, originally began as a piece for Linwood Rose, a short-lived supergroup featuring Saadiq, D’Angelo, and Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest. “I think it’s going to be a record on D’Angelo’s new album when it comes out, a record that we all did together,” Saadiq said. “Linwood Rose lives. I’m playing bass, D’s playing, me and D is singing backgrounds. It’s funky as hell, too. It’s like, D is a bad boy. … It’s aged well. Good music ages well.”
This news comes after D’Angelo hinted at a “Black Messiah” companion piece in a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone, saying, “I do want to put a lot of music out there. I feel like, in a lot of respects, that I’m just getting started.”
Since “Black Messiah,” D’Angelo has contributed original songs to the soundtracks of the video game “Red Dead Redemption 2” and the film “The Book of Clarence.” Fans eagerly await the release of his new album and the continuation of his musical journey.
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