I started watching Luke Cage this week and was happy to see Raphael Saadiq featured so prominently in the first episode. I've been listening to a lot more Ray than usual since then.
There's not much more I can say about these two artists, so I'll let their voices take you away. It's the weekend, so go get lazy and make some babies.
Back home in the Bay and this song encapsulates how I'm feeling waking up this morning, reunited with my really love.
The intro's long, but it's dreamy and beautiful (and in Spanish), and worth the wait.
I heard Voodoo as a teenager when it came out at the turn of the century, and it hooked me, full line and sinker. Those drums from Questlove, those smooth vocals, the rhymes from Wu Tang Clansmen Method Man and Redman, that music video (you know the one).
Voodoo remains one of my most-often played albums from start to finish (best for a sexy dinner and date night at home), and when D'Angelo came back with the Black Messiah record in 2015 featuring his band, The Vanguard, I was over the moon. Seeing them perform at Outside Lands last year was the highlight of my summer festival-going experience. This track with the funky piano always puts me in a good mood.