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Yeah, I never actually listened to Voodoo in full until about 3 months ago. The funny thing is, I was a BIG Brown Sugar fan and have always considered myself a fan of his work. I think when the album Voodoo came out, there was 2 factors which kept me from purchasing it: 1) I was all about underground hip-hop and house music '97-'99 and the singles from Voodoo were very slow grooving, mid-tempo joints that my fast forward AD/HD sensibilities were not a good match for, and 2) I was probably just a little bit insecure as a young guy walking up to the counter with that CD and its accompanying album cover in hand.
After I got over those 2 issues, it just seemed like "What's the point?" When I finally remembered to both get over it and purchase it at the end of last year, I was kinda happy I did wait so long because I had a "brand new" album to carry me through the holidays.
I also picked up "Ridin' Dirty" which I slept on for even longer.
>- all this talk about D'Mumblo, Maxwell, and all that stuff >has me revisiting the mid-to-late '90s again. Now this was the >first era I really had my head up my ass as a music listener, >because the terrorists were making strides in the hip-hop and >R&B popularity wars. As far as R&B was concerned, I was more >of a "Maxwell" kind of dude, for a number of reasons (chief >among them being that URBAN HANG SUITE took a diarrhea-fied >POO POO over most R&B records released in 1996). But he >understandably was one of those artists that stood alone in >the crowd. > >That being said... > >- I listened to D'Mumblo's VOODOO in full for the first time >this past weekend. Checked out the outtakes and demos that I >had somewhere stashed and forgot about, too. > >Now I get the obsession. I sort of got it before, but now I >*really* get why people are all "Prince.org-y" about D'Mumblo. > > >Not saying I'm part of it, but honestly, I'm kinda mad it took >so long to hear it all... since it sounds just like the kind >of music that made me so optimistic about the incoming 2000s, >like Common's LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE in particular (no >surprise, since it came out of the same shop of creative >minds). There really was not a whole lot of music released in >that era with that kind of groove. Sure, the sound of VOODOO >hearkened back to an earlier time, but it wasn't like they >were trying to recreate the shit bit-by-bit. It was very >contemporary, but also very funky. I really like that D'Mumblo >said "yeah, I don't do that traditional strong structure shit >so well" and just went with what worked. And hit it big! > >Damn. > >I also now really get the disappointment that there was >nothing for so many years. >
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