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    Lauren Pitman liked and reviewed Brown Sugar
    
    One of my all time favorite albums. Its jazz for a modern age and neo-soul. My fav song is "When We Get By" but I honestly love them all!
    
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    Brown Sugar is the debut album of American recording artist D'Angelo, released July 3, 1995, on EMI Music. Recording sessions for the album took place from 1994 to 1995 at Battery Studios and RPM... more
    
    Brown Sugar is the debut album of American recording artist D'Angelo, released July 3, 1995, on EMI Music. Recording sessions for the album took place from 1994 to 1995 at Battery Studios and RPM Studios in New York City and at the Pookie Lab in Sacramento, California. Production, instrumentation, arrangements, and songwriting were primarily handled by D'Angelo. Brown Sugar contains themes of love and romance, and features a fusion of R&B and soul music styles with musical elements of funk, quiet storm, and hip hop music.
    
    The album debuted at number six on the US Billboard Top R&B Albums chart, selling 300,000 copies in its first two months. With the help of its four singles, it spent 65 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and attained platinum shipments within a year of its release. Upon its release, Brown Sugar received general acclaim from music critics and earned D'Angelo several accolades, including four Grammy Award nominations. Regarded by music writers as a pivotal album in ...
    
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    Chris Fuller liked and reviewed Brown Sugar
    
    I gets high off ya love I don't know how to behave.......DOPE CD!!!
    
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    Moises Lopes Ferreira liked and reviewed Brown Sugar
    
    check YO !
    
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<p>D'Angelo is obviously inspired by the progressive soul of the early '70s, but he has also borrowed carefully from the hip-hop of his own generation. Like many of his contemporaries, he has recorded a tribute to marijuana--the album's title--but it's far wittier than most. It takes the form of a conventional love song ("Brown sugar babe, I gets high off your love ... that's why my eyes are a shade blood burgundy") and mimics intoxication in its throbbing bass lines and reverb-heavy organ. Another song, with a title too profane to print, is a blunt tale of infidelity and murder, but in contrast to most rap fantasies, D'Angelo's blues-like narrative acknowledges such acts have serious consequences.  Best of all is the Prince-like "Higher," which combines the spiritual love of God and the carnal love of a woman into one dizzying, organ-fueled hymn. D'Angelo is still rather clumsy with lyrics, and he leans too heavily on ballads over dance numbers, but he has enough talent to grow in any of several directions. It will be an exciting story to follow and one would be foolish to miss the first chapter. <I>--Geoffrey Himes</I></p>

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