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DJ Monalisa on D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar"
41 minutes Posted Mar 1, 2018 at 1:52 pm.
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DJ Monalisa Murray is an O.G. on the L.A. scene, having made the transition from working in marketing and promotion for record labels to working for herself as one of the Southland's premier selectors, down with everyone from Umoja Hi-Fi Soundsystem, to Footlong Development, to the KPL All-Stars. For her album choice, she wanted to spin us back to the emergence of D'Angelo and his debut album, Brown Sugar. We talked about how D'Angelo struck a different note than R&B in that era, how his style played to and against hip-hop, and just what exactly "brown sugar" refers to. Spicy. 

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Show Tracklisting (all songs from Brown Sugar unless indicated otherwise):

  • “Brown Sugar”
  • “Jonez In My Bones”
  • Billy Preston: Music is my Life “Will it Go Round in Circles”
  • ”Cruisin
  • D’Angelo: Voodoo “Feel Like Making Love”
  • ”Me And Those Dreaming Eyes of Mine”
  • J Dilla: A.K.A. J. Yancey “Me And Those Dreaming Eyes of Mine Remix”
  • ”Shit, Damn, Motherfucker”
  • ”When We Get By”
  • ”Alright”
  • Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers “Brown Sugar”
  • D’Angelo: “She’s Always In My Hair”
  • D’Angelo: Black Messiah “Really Love”

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