D’Angelo: Voodoo/Erykah Badu: Mama’s Gun/Kelis: Kaleidoscope
Cleothus Hardcastle, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
SOMEHOW "SOUL" music lives on, clinging to life in the midst of the coldest, meanest materialism. Straight outta Brooklyn came two of the heirs to the soul (and jazz) traditions, DAngelo and Erykah Badu, continuum artists the both. Funky and sensual, the two straddle the chasm between souls past and hip hops future.
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