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In the year 2000, D'Angelo released "Voodoo" - with some help from Questlove, Angie Stone, Raphael Saadiq, and a band of jazz veterans - an album that has cast a long shadow with its unique sound of stripped-down soul.

Faith Pennick, who literally wrote the book on the record, joins to break how D'Angelo broke the "shiny suit" regime of R&B, explore how he conjured the spirits of J Dilla, Prince, and Roberta Flack, and consider how one video almost derailed his career.

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