Rare Interview with D'Angelo Part 1 of 4

An album like Donuts—thirty-one short snippets, manipulated samples, overlaid dialogue, no real songs except that everything there is so endlessly tuneful and rhythmic—made people rethink some of their basic assumptions about music, and not just hip-hop, but all recorded music—made them go back to the beginning, to the drum, to a unit of measuremen

It’s been more than half a decade since Dilla passed, and I still don’t really know what to think about it. He had been there at the beginning of neo soul, though we didn’t call it that then, and his music will be around long after people don’t call it that anymore.