On the Okayplayer forums in the 2000s, you could occasionally catch a rare MP3 outtake from D'Angelo's Voodoo recording sessions. As Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson attests in his wonder-struck recounting ...

The “king of neo-soul,” born Michael Eugene Archer in Virginia, was one of a kind, and this was clear in his upbringing in his father’s church. At age 16, he even had his own choir and formed a ...