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Ten years ago D’Angelo’s third album Black Messiah came out, and after doing some touring he disappeared back into the rich soil of his Richmond, Virginia hometown – or wherever his genius led him – and hadn’t been seen in public much since.
But his frequent collaborator Raphael Saadiq says that new music may be coming soon. In an interview with the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast , the Tony, Toni, Toné frontman said that D is in the studio hashing out songs for a new project and that the two will ultimately link up for it.
“We definitely [going to] work together,” Saadiq said. “But he hates when people go like, ‘you’re going to work with your boy, Ray?’ He’s like, he said, we just laugh. And he said, ‘man, everybody acts like you’re responsible for my damn career.’ Like laughing. He said, ‘I’m tired of everybody asking me, you’re going to work with your boy?”
Saadiq continued, “I said, but I’m tired of everybody asking me, where the hell you at? I’m like, ‘I don’t know where the hell he at.’ He ain’t in my back pocket either. But that’s our understanding. We’re definitely going to work together. But he’s like I said, he’s a cat who’s his own self. He’s his own writer. He’s amazing by himself. Everybody knows that.”