During a recent episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Raphael Saadiq disclosed that his frequent collaborator D’Angelo is busy working on a new album. The two-time Grammy-winning R&B star hasn’t released an album since 2014’s Black Messiah, but according to Saadiq, D’Angelo has a number of new songs that he is getting together at the moment. “D’s in a good space,” Saadiq shared. “He’s excited. He’s like, ‘you gotta play bass. I’ve got this track. I’m telling you, you got to get on it. It got your name all over it.’ … He’s working on six pieces right now and he seems super excited.”
Saadiq revealed that one of the songs D’Angelo is currently working on is an old track from Linwood Rose, a short-lived supergroup featuring the two of them along with Q-Tip. “I think it’s going to be a record on D’Angelo’s new album when it comes out, a record that we all did together,” Saadiq said. “Linwood Rose lives. I’m playing bass, D’s playing, me and D is singing backgrounds. It’s funky as hell, too. It’s like, D is a bad boy. … It’s aged well. Good music ages well.” (Consequence of Sound)
