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Brown Sugar (Parental Advisory),D'Angelo

- Brown Sugar (Parental Advisory)
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D'Angelo
Released 1995

Cruisin'
06:23
88,106 plays

Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine
04:45
64,011 plays

Shit, Damn, Motherfucker
05:12
47,324 plays

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- 1
- Brown Sugar
- 04:21
- 151,380 plays

- 2
- Alright
- 05:12
- 46,559 plays

- 3
- Jonz In My Bonz
- 05:54
- 41,464 plays

- 4
- Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes Of Mine
- 04:45
- 64,011 plays

- 5
- Shit, Damn, Motherfucker
- 05:12
- 47,324 plays

- 6
- Smooth
- 04:19
- 38,104 plays

- 7
- Cruisin'
- 06:23
- 88,106 plays

- 8
- When We Get By
- 05:43
- 46,482 plays

- 9
- Lady
- 05:43
- 182,585 plays

- 10
- Higher
- 05:25
- 40,978 plays

album review

By the mid-'90s, most urban R&B had become rather predictable, working on similar combinations of soul and hip-hop, or relying on vocal theatrics on slow, seductive numbers. With his debut album, Brown Sugar, the 21-year-old D'Angelo crashed down some of those barriers. D'Angelo concentrates on classic versions of soul and R&B, but unlike most of his contemporaries, he doesn't cut and paste older songs with hip-hop beats; instead, he attacks the forms with a hip-hop attitude, breathing new life into traditional forms. Not all of his music works -- there are several songs that sound incomplete, relying more on sound than structure. But when he does have a good song -- like the hit "Brown Sugar," Smokey Robinson's "Cruisin'," or the bluesy "Shit, Damn, Motherfucker," among several others -- D'Angelo's wild talents are evident. Brown Sugar might not be consistently brilliant, but it is one of the most exciting debuts of 1995, giving a good sense of how deep D'Angelo's talents run. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide