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I make music under the name “The Cocker Spaniels” & book tours under the name “Happy Nomad Booking.” I love my children; I like Prince & Guided by Voices; & I hate all forms of bigotry. I’m Black. I’m not a Senator. seanpadilla.com

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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · Apr 17

Over the next few months, I'll be making music on commission for anyone on the skyline who is able to help me with some major life expenses I need to take care over the spring and summer.

cspaniels.bandcamp.com/album/the-co... = Now would be a good time to check my music out if you haven't yet!

The Cocker Spaniels Are Still Alive, and So Are You, by The Cocker Spaniels

21 track album

cspaniels.bandcamp.com

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charles (young QB agnostic) mcdonald @fourverts.bsky.social · 9h

for those unfamiliar, d’angelo was a HUGE fan of the game series to the point he made an original song for RDR2 with rockstar.

the point where it comes in really meets the moment and depth of the story at that point. might be time for another replay youtu.be/eP_0yz605Sw?...

Red Dead Redemption 2 Soundtrack: May I Stand Unshaken Full Version

YouTube video by Razor Mind

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 9h

I settled on a clip from the (incredible) doc Sly Lives! (watch it now on Hulu if you haven't.) I think it's the most transparent commentary I ever heard from D'Angelo; it's about Sly, but it's really about him.

My plan was to grab a whole different clip, but this one felt right.

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Asteroid M @marqed4death.bsky.social · 13h

All the love you’re seeing for D’Angelo is what happens when you leave the world in a better place than how you found it.

He and his art will be missed.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 2h

Kool and the Gang gave D'Angelo his flowers the year after "Send It On" came out... I love this performance so much!

I love our intergenerational love and care. And the way we honor and *see* each other. 🖤
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfjP...

Kool & The Gang - LIVE Sea Of Tranquility - At The House Of Blues 2001

YouTube video by Nicolas

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Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social · 3h

“Rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the ICE raids and money for legal aid and other services are among the provisions in the declaration.”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 9h

Michael Eugene Archer aka D’Angelo 🖤🕊️

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 5h

#NowPlaying “Devil’s Pie: D’Angelo” documentary.

This documentary was hard to find for years, but it got uploaded to YouTube today.

RIP D’Angelo

Devil's Pie: D'Angelo 2019 documentary

YouTube video by Madnouz

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 4h

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Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 14h

Here’s some words/phrases I no longer say due to racist origin that personally gave me the ick so I just stopped using them. I found often times I brought it up ppl just didn’t know so I’m sharing. Do what you want with this info. Okay, ready here we go 🧵

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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 3h

Everything in Sade’s discography is worth hearing, but I’d say listen to their first three albums in their entirety and you’ll be sufficiently prepared lol

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Cozy Eb @ebonielon.bsky.social · 8h

D'Angelo is up there with Stevie, MJ, and Prince for me. Like...the fact that I will never be able to see him live is something I can't wrap my head around.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 6h

The yr I turned 51, I almost lost my mind. My father had dropped dead on the sidewalk from a massive
brain hemorrhage when he was 51 & I was convinced that such would be my fate. I have blessedly lived two decades & three years since then, and my ❤️ breaks that D’Angelo is gone, too soon, at 51. RIP

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𝒮𝒽ℯ-ℛ𝒶 @riptodeesse.blacksky.app · 5h

Seeing so many ppl dying in their 50s is a part of why I’ve been so driven to get my health back in order. That’s only 7 years away for me and idk bout y’all but that isn’t a long time on earth

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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 5h

It’s telling that the cover of the album isn’t a picture of D’Angelo himself. It’s a scanned frame of 16mm footage filmed at the Afropunk Festival in 2014 that pictures the crowd raising their hands in protest at the killing of Michael Brown.

tru @thetrudz.photo · 12h

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.”

“D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 10h

‼️ I never liked his incredible music being reduced solely to the “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” video. The Voodoo tour caused him a lot of pain.

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: “D'Angelo felt tortured, Questlove says, by the pressure to give the audience what it wanted. Worried that he didn't look as cut as he did in the video, he'd delay shows to do stomach crunches. He'd often give in, peeling off his shirt, but he resented being reduced to that. Wasn't he an artist? Couldn't the audience hear the power of his music and value him for that? He would explode, Questlove recalls, and throw things. Sometimes he'd have to be coad not to cancel shows altogether.

When I ask D about this, he downplays his suffering. Watching him pull hard on another Newport, I realize that he finds it far easier to confess his addictions than his insecurities about his corporeal self. Self-destructing with a coke spoon—while ill-advised—has a badass edge. Fretting over what Questlove has called "some Kate Moss shit" seems anything but manly. If given the chance, he tells me, he would absolutely shoot the video again. But he does admit to feeling angry during the Voodoo tour.”

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

Article (Amy Wallace; GQ) excerpt reads: "’One time I got mad when a female threw money at me onstage, and that made me feel fucked-up, and I threw the money back at her,’ he says. ‘I was like, 'I'm not a stripper.' He was beginning to sense a darkness beckoning. He recalls a particular moment onstage at the North Sea Jazz festival in 2000. The band was in the middle of ‘Devil's Pie,’ his song about the spell fame casts upon the weak—Who am I to justify / All the evil in our eye / When I myself feel the high / From all that I despise—when he felt an ominous presence in the crowd. ‘That night I felt something that was like, whoa,’ he tells me. E-vil.

On the last day of the eight-month tour, Questlove says D'Angelo told him, ‘Yo, man, I cannot wait until this fucking tour is over. I'm going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.’ Questlove thought he was joking. I was like, ‘You're a funny guy.’ And then it started to happen. That's how much he wanted to distance himself."

While the tour was a success, both critically and commercially, it left D broken. ‘When I got back home, yeah, it wasn't that easy to just be,’ he says. ‘I think that's the thing that got me in a lot of trouble: me trying to just be Michael, the regular old me from back in the day, and me fighting that whole sex-symbol thing. You know: 'Hey, I ain't D'Angelo today. I'm just plain old Mike, and I just want to hang out with my boys and do what we used to do.' But, damn, those days are fucking gone."

“Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)” via GQ

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Raphael Phaasiq @rize4eva.bsky.social · 6h

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Another Life

YouTube video by D'Angelo - Topic

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

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Dannie D 🦋 @dannied.bsky.social · 16h

On Oct. 14, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr., just 35, became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner for his leadership in the civil rights movement and commitment to nonviolence.

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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 13h

one of my absolute favorite albums showcasi g a lot of my favorite artists.

i can't believe both roy & d'angelo are gone

graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 13h

brother d covering perhaps my favorite song of all time with roy hargrove - another artist we lost way too soon.

the rh factor feat. d'angelo
I'LL STAY

youtu.be/7GOB0McTIHE?...

I'll Stay feat. D'Angelo - The RH Factor

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10h

I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦

Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health

Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 12h

Everyone loves the Untitled video, but this was my favorite of his by a mile... I'm pretty sure I've listened to "Send It On" thousands of times since it dropped.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ48...

D'Angelo - Send It On

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Big Lord Bunny @ceepain.bsky.social · 10h

I think the best advice I'd give anyone (man or woman) is to take a friend or loved one with you to your critical appointments.

Having someone there to listen with different thoughts/perspectives (or remind you of certain symptoms or occurrences you might forget) is invaluable.

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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 10h

Morty, no.

I'm not even gonna add a flirty joke 😂

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renee 🪩 @reverenddollars.blacksky.app · 11h

Singing “Sex Machine” with Tom Jones is close tho (completely wild that Tom is alive and D is not):

Tom Jones (2000) - Sex Machine (w. D'angelo) (VH1's Men Strike Back, april 11)

YouTube video by tigertom1011

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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin and #FreeLink @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 10h

Yes.