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If you love Marvin Gaye, Al Green, and Prince - this is up there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e2LP - Double 180 Gram Vinyl with Download. 2CD - Newly Remastered. Includes 21 rare tracks, including remixes by CJ Mackintosh, Dallas Austin, King Tech, Erick Sermon, and Incognito, as well as instrumentals and a cappella versions. Of the 21 newly added tracks, 15 were previously available only on vinyl and seven will make their commercial release debuts on the new edition. 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But the first great album of the new millennium was born in the 1990s, and its muggy grooves capture the sound of premillennial anxiety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album is the product of perfectionism, obsession, and paranoia. 1995's debut \u003cem\u003eBrown Sugar\u003c\/em\u003e had already strategically positioned \u003cstrong\u003eD'Angelo\u003c\/strong\u003e - born Michael Eugene Archer and Virginia raised to a Pentecostal preacher father - as the next Hendrix-like deity in black music, after Prince and maybe Lenny Kravitz. But since its release, \u003cstrong\u003eD'Angelo\u003c\/strong\u003e had become distracted by weed and weightlifting, he'd been shaken by the deaths of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G, and debilitated by sophomore pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the interim, he'd fathered two children, switched managers, and jumped to a new record label. 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