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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 12m

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 20m

It’s true 😊

alice! 🍉 @tinysquash.bsky.social · 1d

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 29m

All I can think of is

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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 8h

heavy d should still be here

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 7h

Thank you! ✨🙏🏽✨

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Kevin Sur @kevinsur.bsky.social · 8h

For real, @reverenddollars.blacksky.app overnight tribute to D’Angelo has been everything. 🙏🏽

10/16 - hit that archive folks of you weren’t listening live. KEXP.org

KEXP - Where the Music Matters

KEXP is a nonprofit arts organization serving music lovers through in-person, broadcast and online programming.

KEXP.org

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 12h

Paying tribute to the late D’Angelo tonight on the Overnight on KEXP

Listen at kexp.org 🎵🎶

KEXP - Where the Music Matters

KEXP is a nonprofit arts organization serving music lovers through in-person, broadcast and online programming.

kexp.org

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 22h

It’s monophony!

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 1d

Fun fact: this is why Stevie Wonder has 3 senses, not 4 (lost his sense of smell after a log went through the window of a car he was riding shotgun in)

Bald-Headed Demon 😈 @such-a-frknlady.blacksky.app · 1d

absolutely not. IYKYK

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 1d

It’s monophony!

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 1d

No, that’s mitochondria

Monogamy is when multiple voices in a piece of music play the exact same notes

Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 1d

That’s a monopoly.

Monogamy is the double-membraned powerhouse of the cell.

🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 1d

No that’s mythology.

Monogamy is when there is only a single buyer for a particular service, often leading to wage suppression due to the lack of alternate buyers who would generate market control activity such as bidding.

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 1d

Even under less solemn circumstances, “Africa” gets me every time 😭😭😭

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Dee Phunk @deephunk.bsky.social · 1d

Ananda Lewis interviews D'Angelo on MTV Live circa 1997 in promotion of the Scream 2 soundtrack. Cancer claimed both of them this year. Grateful that something like this even exists online so we have evidence of our culture's influence. Shouts to all the guerrilla archivists.

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 1d

DoNormaal & friends were amazing too. It really had the energy of a prime era DoNo show but the new and evolved next level version

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 1d

Bilal was incredible tonight and dedicated his show to D’Angelo. It felt so right to have someone who was connected to him in town tonight and bringing some of his energy ✨

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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 1d

Lauren Hill to D’Angelo❤️🙏🏽

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Denise Ferreira @ferreiraeng.bsky.social · 1d

He really was extraordinary. Voice. Musicality. Charisma. That voice, though, was amazing. A gift to us, really. Gone far, far too soon. Strength to his family and loved ones.
💔🖤❤️

renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 2d

Sadly I never got to see D’Angelo in person but my favorite live D’Angelo moment was when he sang “How Does It Feel” for the first time in a decade in Paris (after leaving it out of early shows on that tour) and they went nuts just from the first chord then went on to sing that chorus pitch perfect:

D'Angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel) (Live @ Zénith Paris) [2012-01-29]

YouTube video by foxysoul94

m.youtube.com

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 1d

I don’t give a fuck, I ain’t goin out for a slice of the devil’s pie

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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 1d

18 years Old D'angelo singing "Tomorrow" by The Winans in Church ⛪️🙏🏽❤️

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Arepa Auntie @breadbae.blacksky.app · 2d

This is fire.

Freeyore @mewefree.bsky.social · 2d

Wanna get one of these made with the real fabrics...

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𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐦 💋💜 @jessijeannie.bsky.social · 2d

to the nurturers, the fixers, the ones who hold everyone together, make sure you’re holding space for you too.

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𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐊𝐢𝐢 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐬 @venuskiithomas.bsky.social · 2d

Black trans people across this land are grieving and celebrating. These are all the words I have for right now. We are grieving and celebrating the memory and life force of this ancestor. Asé. Well done.

𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐊𝐢𝐢 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐬 @venuskiithomas.bsky.social · 2d

All of us are feeling the loss of Miss Major right now. All of us.

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 1d

The internet went nuts just from an illicit picture of a box of CDs!

Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 2d

I remember the collective cultural exhale when D’Angelo resurfaced with “Black Messiah” and the album ended up being as good as the title announced it would be

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 1d

I’ve been coming back to this one over and over for years

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 2d

This is the D'Angelo performance that I've never forgotten. This song was already a huge hit but the way he took it from contemporary R&B to church revival illustrated how connected those idioms are. A revelation for those who didn't know, and an affirmation for those who did.

D'Angelo - Lady ft. Spanky, Saadiq, Ali Shaheed & ?uestlove

YouTube video by twinbreed

www.youtube.com

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