My goodness, that's the lane that D'angelo should've stayed in, like Brown Sugar! He sounded sincere and was at his absolute best under those textures, btwn Brown Sugar & Voo, imo.

I think 15 thought that Brown Sugar was way too polished, so btwn the two of them, they went 180 degrees from his intial sound, which resulted in a mechanical sounding pairing, because every Neo Soul album that came out post Voo & Mama Gun's, is a much better listen.

Dre's polish, is far grittier than anything the Soulquarians could cook up and yes i agree that 'Imagine' is a very weak track, considering what Dre has done in the past but let's not overlook that that's something that Snoop Dog wanted. D'angelo may have felt honored to be considered as they could've went with Nate Dogg or many other vocalists. They could've pulled some no named gospel cat from any church to lay something down.