 Genius Meanings
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D'Angelo – Feel Like Makin' Love
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“Feel Like Makin’ Love” was released as the final single from Voodoo and is a cover of the June 1974 soul classic of the same name by Roberta Flack. Lauryn Hill was originally
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D'Angelo – Feel Like Makin' Love (Live At The Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden, July 8, 2000)
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[Intro] / How y'all feelin' tonight, y'all? / Woo / I wanna know if there's anybody tonight that feel like making love / If you feel like making love tonight, let me hear you say "
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Katastro – Naked
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[Intro] / Yo, uh / I said / [Verse 1] / Geekin' off a handle though / Vibin' to D'Angelo / Fiendin' for some love and I think she got the antidote / Colder than an icicle, ride me
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D'Angelo – Soultronic (Live At The Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden, July 8, 2000)
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[Intro] / Full time now / Hit me / Keep it going / [Verse] / Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah / I think I wanna talk to sister / Good Lord, yeah, I think I wanna talk to sister / I'm alright, I
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D'Angelo – Untitled (How Does It Feel)
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“Untitled (How Does It Feel)” became notorious for its sexually charged video featuring a series of lingering shots of D'Angelo’s nude body that split the difference between mass
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Ezra Collective – Smile
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[Instrumental]
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D'Angelo – Send It On (Live At The Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden, July 8, 2000)
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[Intro] / Hey / Whoa-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-whoa, oh / [Chorus] / Send it up / Send it through / Send it right back to you / Send it up / Send it through / Send it right back to you / [
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D'Angelo – I Found My Smile Again
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This song, which first appeared on the 1996 Space Jam soundtrack, was actually an outtake from D'Angelo’s debut album, Brown Sugar.
?uestlove said they recorded “Playa Playa
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D'Angelo (Ft. Method Man & Redman) – Left & Right
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“Left & Right,” the second single from Voodoo features guest vocals by hip-hop duo Method Man and Redman who also co-wrote the song.
The song contains a sample from Eric B. & Rakim
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D'Angelo – Lady (Live)
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[Intro] / Where all my ladies at? / All my ladies, make some noise / Ow / [Chorus] / You're my lady / (Shout-out to my queens) / You're my lady / (You're my, you're my) / You're my
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Roberta Flack – Feel Like Makin' Love
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Feel Like Makin' Love is the title song of Roberta Flack’s fifth album.
It was written by Eugene McDaniels. Roberta produced the song under the pseudonym “Rubina Flake.”
The song
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D'Angelo – The Root
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[Intro] / (Talk to y'all, tell you a story, namsayin?) / (One, two, three, four) / [Verse 1] / She done worked a root, ooh-ooh / Done worked a root that will not be reversed / Yeah
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D'Angelo – Spanish Joint
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“Spanish Joint” was one of the last songs to be recorded for Voodoo. In a May 2014 interview with Red Bull Music Academy, Russell Elevado describes how D'Angelo was wrapping up the
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Lauryn Hill (Ft. D'Angelo) – Nothing Even Matters
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“Nothing Even Matters” is a duet performed by Lauryn Hill and D'Angelo. It’s the 12th track on Hill’s classic album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
The song fluidly brings back
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Moonchild – Back To Me
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Seems I'm never by my phone whenever you call / Always busy or having my fun / And when you want to take me out I've no appetite at all / Suppose I'm not a hungry woman / Maybe you
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D'Angelo – The Root (Live)
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / She done worked a root / Done worked a root that will not be reversed, yeah, no / Then I go on / Go on my role in her play with no
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D'Angelo – Send It On
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“Send It On” is dedicated to D'Angelo’s newborn son and was the first song recorded for Voodoo. Co-written by his former girlfriend and the mother of his son, singer Angie Stone
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D'Angelo – She's Always In My Hair
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“She’s Always In My Hair” is a cover of the May 1985 Prince song of the same name. The track was recorded for the Scream 2 soundtrack and D'Angelo also played it live as a closing
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D'Angelo – Brown Sugar
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Although it may seem so at first listen, “Brown Sugar” is not a love song about a dark-skinned woman. The track is an ode to marijuana, specifically the indica strain of the same
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D'Angelo – Chicken Grease
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“Chicken Grease” was originally intended) for Common’s March 2000 album, Like Water for Chocolate, but after writing it, D'Angelo wanted it for his own album.
It contains an
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D'Angelo – Give Me Your Love
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[Intro] / Yeah / Give me your love / Yeah / [Instrumental Break] / [Chorus] / Give me your love, give me your love / Give me your love / Give me your love, give me your love / Give
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D'Angelo – Devil's Pie (Live)
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[Intro: D'Angelo, DJ Scratch] / Shout-out to Premier / Primo / [Chorus: D'Angelo] / Fuck the slice, want the pie / Why ask why 'til we fry / Watch us all stand in line / For a
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D'Angelo and the Vanguard (Ft. Gina Figueroa) – Really Love
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“Really Love” sees D'Angelo croon over a girl who has been with him since day one. The song is believed to be one of the earliest to be recorded from the album. In 2007, Questlove
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D'Angelo – One Mo' Gin (Live)
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[Intro: D'Angelo, DJ Scratch] / Man (Yeah) / I think we should change the pace, slow it down for the ladies / What do you think? / I'm with you, man, I like that idea, definitely
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D'Angelo – Devil's Pie
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“Devil’s Pie” is a sparse funk diatribe on the excess of money and materialism in Hip Hop, with a minor reference to Five Percenter philosophy A Spin magazine columnist later cited
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D'Angelo – Lady
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“Lady” is a collaboration between soul men D'Angelo and Raphael Saadiq that was released as the third single from Brown Sugar. The gold single peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot
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Daniel Caesar (Ft. H.E.R.) – Best Part
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“Best Part” is a simple, though beautiful love song about the intensity with which the singer values their partner.
After teasing several pictures on Instagram of a possible
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D'Angelo & H.E.R. (Ft. Daniel Caesar) – Best Part (Live)
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[Intro: H.E.R.] / I'ma start it off / Oh, oh, hey / [Verse 1: H.E.R. & D'Angelo] / You don't know, babe / When you hold me / And kiss me slowly / It's the sweetest thing (Mm-mm
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D'Angelo – Africa
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“Africa” is a song dedicated to D’Angelo’s son. ?uestlove revealed in a blog post that borrowed the beat for this song from his favorite Prince song, the 1986 cut “I Wonder U.”
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Drake – Is There More
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Throughout “Is There More,” Drake discusses how life is about more than the rapper life that artists (including himself) talk about, while at the same time pondering what that “
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D'Angelo – Spanish Joint (Live)
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[Intro: D'Angelo, DJ Scratch] / Whoa / Ah, bless, brother / Man / Blessings, yeah / We had to do that for the ladies, ya'mean? / Yes, for sure, mmm / Wow, let's pick up the pace
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D'Angelo and the Vanguard – 1000 Deaths (Live)
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[Intro] / [Khalid Abdul Muhammad] / "When I say Jesus, I'm not talking about some blond-haired, blue-eyed, pale-skinned, buttermilk complexion cracker Christ. I’m talking about the
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D'Angelo – Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Live)
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[Intro: DJ Scratch] / Everybody right now, put some hearts up right now for yourself / Put some hearts up right now for D'Angelo / [Verse 1: D'Angelo] / Girl, it's only you / Have
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Method Man (Ft. D'Angelo) – Break Ups 2 Make Ups
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[Intro: Method Man] / You and I, 'til the day we die (Trackmasters) / Yo, yo / [Verse 1: Method Man] / Ex-girlfriend, how you been? / I see you still tryna fuck with other women's
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ID – ID1 (from Verzuz: D’Angelo x Friends) [Live]
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Listen, if y'all ready for D'Angelo / Turn your lights on / Turn your lights on / Put the motherfuckin' hearts up in the air right now if you're ready for D'Angelo / Want you to
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D'Angelo – Use Me
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[Intro: David Sanborn] / He's one of the most soulful and talented musicians around / Doing the Bill Withers tune "Use Me," please welcome D'Angelo / [Instrumental Break] / [Verse
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D'Angelo – Cruisin’ (Live)
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[Intro] / Ooh / Ooh, ooh / Yeah / [Verse 1] / Baby, let's cruise, away from here / Don't be confused, baby, the way is clear, uh / And if you want it, you got it forever / Oh, this
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D'Angelo and the Vanguard – Sugah Daddy (Live)
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[Intro: D'Angelo] / Ah yeah / Ow, uh / Uh-huh / [Verse 1: D'Angelo] / It's just the way she's so raw and uncut / She needs a spankin', she'll love it / And I just wish that I could
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