I know plenty of music heads (who are in bands and play instruments) who went to Essence and said that it wasn't bad but it sure wasn't great.

I dunno

Frank and The Weeknd:
Those cats are just doing their thing and that makes them ok in my book
Drake aint going around saying that he saw Weeknd do the drum pattern for 777-9311 on a fisher price drum set but he ain't gonna show anyone 'cuz he scared
or Tyler saying Frank can perform all the vocal parts to Adore note for note.

I dont have a problem with D'Angelo, the person and musician
As others have said, we want dude to do his thing
With that said, I have a major problem with his hype machine
and the folks who do this can't see the damage that it does
Always have and always will
Let D'Angelo be D'Angelo
not the heir-apparent to so and so
That shit really needs to stop
Hell.....even his contemporary Maxwell has his own lane in 2012