D'Angelo

In a 1998 article on neo soul, Time columnist Christopher John Farley composed that artists, for example, Hill, D'Angelo, and Maxwell "share an eagerness to test melodic orthodoxy". Miles Marshall Lewis remarked that 1990s neo soul "owed its raison d'être to '70s soul whizzes like Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder", including that "in show, Erykah Badu and D'Angelo consistently secured Chaka Khan, the Ohio Players, and Al Green, to make the heredity precious stone clear." In referring to Tony! Toni! Tone! as forebears of the class, Tony Green of Vibe saw that the gathering spearheaded the "advanced simple mixture sound" of neo soul and "significantly invigorated the digitalized no man's land that was R&B in the late '80s". Neo soul specialists amid the 1990s were intensely enlivened by the varied sound and smooth instrumentation of Gil Scott-Heron's and Brian Jackson's community work in the 1970s. All About Jazz referred to Jackson as "one of the early planners" of the sound and…

Angelo’s “Voodoo” album during an interview at Red Bull Music Academy. In the recording session, he was told to emulate D’ Angelo programming the drum without quantizing it, which then accidentally created a raw, dragging and uneven drumming style that fits D’ Angelo’s music perfectly. It is very impressive to see Questlove in the interview deliberately play every drum beat behind but still being able to keep the tempo. Pino Palladino, the world-class bass player also participated in…

to its fullest extent, quite a few do not. To show this, David Simon included a scene in this series where D’Angelo Barksdale, nephew of the Kingpin,…

Alleviate America’s Opioid Crisis,” the author Chris D’Angelo’s solution to the current war against opioids is legalizing marijuana. Chris D’Angelo is an associate editor for the Huffington Post located in Hawaii, he covers a wide range of topics and in this article he provides research to why marijuana can aid in the opioid epidemic. D’Angelo presents the results of a research study from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where they examined U.S. crash data from 18 states…

In the first episode of the show ‘the wire’, as detective Kima mentions the drug war, her fellow detective, Carver says, “You can’t even think of calling this a war, because wars end, but this don’t.” The wire mainly focuses on the crime scenes related to drugs in Baltimore. Detective McNulty and Kima are the main figures on the law enforcement side, and D’Angelo, Avon, and Stringer are the main figures on the drug dealing side. D’Angelo Barksdale, the nephew of the head of the drug dealers,…

you messed up on” echoed the Regression Voice. “I have the key that can only allow you to escape of me but until then, you’re locked up in my jail”. We have all done things in life that we wish we could regret; this varies between not studying hard enough for a test to missing a goal in soccer, regret has its flavours. But why do we regret? We, as humans simple believe that we should have made a better choice, but we didn’t. Paul D’Angelo, the author of the “The Step Not Taken” can give a…

What are you doing with this no good New York Knick?” Russell said. “Don’t call him filthy. We were just talking.” Kristen explained. “Who are you calling filthy D’angelo?” Porzingis screamed. “I’m calling you filthy so why don’t you get away from Kristen.” Russell said. “Oh my god guys stop! Go settle your differences on the court and not on the sideline.” Kristen said. Tension was starting to heat up between these two was starting to heat up and the third quarter was just about to start. The…

Connor! Are you there, are you alright.” Connor yells, “Get up here right now.” Carlee frantically runs up the stairs as Connor yells, “Hurry up, I’m on the roof, we don’t have much time.” Carlee asks, “where are we going.” Connor says with a firm look, “We are meeting with D’angelo. He has heard word of a safe zone towards the north side of Chicago. We will meet at his house with him, then we will figure out what to do next. I have a couple M-4s downstairs, can you go get them for me.” “Ok”…

In this scene many metaphors show how D’Angelo understands the rigged, underlying and exposed nature of “the game” and is not your typical drug dealer. There is a hierarchal social class aspect that steps out in this scene as well. D’Angelo is well dressed with designer clothing, lives in a nice apartment, not in the pit and is elevated from the other dealers. Bodie and Wallace both live in a grungy apartment with many siblings and both wear old, tattered clothing. As D’Angelo approaches the…

The Wire Scene Analysis The Wire is a crime drama television series set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland, created and written by author and former police reporter David Simon. The Series is centered on the Baltimore Police department and the Barksdale crew, a drug organization. The show has an overriding metaphor at play, something many characters refer to as the game. The scene that signifies this metaphor and has multiple comparisons to is the chess scene in episode 3, The Buys. In this…