y'all gonna do the..........same......here.......?

ahem..

What's your general feeling about race relations? How much optimism do you have?

D'angelo: I'm an idealist. So in that respect I'm very optimistic. At the same time, awareness is the biggest thing we're missing. When I say "we," I mean us as black folk.

When I was coming up, popular tastes bent toward consciousness — the Rakims of the world, and the Public Enemys, and the Boogie Down Productions. Discovering Malcolm X was trendy. So if there's things in the world you want to change, you first have to make those changes within yourself. I hate to sound like a Hallmark card, or like "Man in the Mirror," but that really is the truth .


http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-second-coming-of-dangelo-20150614?page=3

http://www.okayplayer.com/news/dangelo-rolling-stone-interview-black-messiah-follow-up.html