

Knxledge, the producer behind NxWorries, provides a similar quality to their 2016 debut, Yes, Lawd!. J Dilla is a major player on D’Angelo’s Voodoo that paints with gorgeous soul samples to give it vintage texture. His rhodes playing on is smooth and twinkles just like D’Angelo’s cover of “Everybody Loves the Sunshine”. Jose James applies D’Angelo influence into a more jazz-inspired approach. Those horns follow José James into similar neo-soul territory with “Trouble”. The lyrics illustrate Maxwell regretting decisions he’s made and his lover’s vicious response to them, provoking him to ask “how can you be so cold?” José James – Trouble “Cold” is a cut from his 2008 album, BLACKsummer’snight, and gets its oomph from horns and rock instruments, similar to the grooviest cuts on Voodoo. While D’Angelo segregated himself from the music world for fourteen years, Maxwell has consistently released beautifully organic soul records since 1997. Maxwell and D’Angelo were icons of the neo-soul movement in the late 90s and early 2000s.

The song explores dark and enlightening moods and is guaranteed to give you bass face. “Them Changes” is a major highlight from his catalog and features Flying Lotus and Kamasi Washington, two musicians that push the boundaries of jazz in their own way. His complicated bass lines reach the deepest funk possible, something that D’Angelo accomplished on the Rhodes keyboard. Thundercat is the bass virtuoso of modern R&B. Take look at how these artists make a refreshing mark on modern R&B. The experimentation featured on D’Angelo’s Voodoo has sparked dozens on artists to think outside the box and donate their own unique flavour to soul music.
