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2715873, his core audience takes Tom Joyner cruise now and watch madea
Posted by Tim The Creator, Mon Jul-02-12 06:36 PM
>**shrug** Thought it was a solid performance..... I'm pretty
>sure he would have chosen another song to do besides
>untitled.....but being away for 12 years and being at the bet
>awards he was kind of bound to do that song....


folk only know him for the video Untitled, more so then anything he has or will ever do


>Sugar Daddy was funky....and if his album was released it
>would have gotten more of a reaction from that audience.....
>that's the problem with performing a new song nobody's heard
>in front of that type of audience and you've been away for
>over a decade. I remember people looking board to tears when
>El Debarge sang that jeniffer huson sounding ballad he did
>during his comeback performance...nobody had ever heard that
>shit...

hey i heard he is also the next Frank Zappa


>Plus overall...as much as some of these lesson haters want to
>limit D'Angelo's appeal to females....I'll repeat
>again....THAT IS NOT HIS CORE AUDIENCE ..... some poster said
>they heard some broads saying "I can't wait for untitled 2.0"
>..... that's not D'Angelo's core audience.....

really, no untitled video = no audience period

The superjam at
>Bonnaroo proved that...D'Angelo's core audience is about
>music...they are about funky music ....and brining it live on
>stage raw. And that is NOT what the BET awards are
>about....


nothing was raw about Sugar daddy

sure Beyonce was into the performance....but I mean
>that's your #1 Black female music star and she's mouthing the
>lyrics to I be's in the trap.....lol... no B you don't be in
>the trap....Minaj don't be in them shits neither.....females
>get rapped and killed in the trap you dumb b*tch....lol.


So what.

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>come on man....that crowd at the BET awards are some cartoon
>characters auditioning for reality shows doing music as a
>means to that end....

and the same can be said about D'angelo, a James Brown revue cartoon

>
>watch how he rocks Essence....people are there for MUSIC.....

a bunch of old dry mofos who aint got nothing else to do, but be bored listening to the same tired ass maze songs, with the same as tired played out folks playing that shit - of course he going to rock the Essence, who couldn't?

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