‘Brown Sugar ... songs for the radio came in the form of a lustrous cover of Smokey Robinson’s ‘Crusin’’ and ‘Lady’ – a pretty pop track the singer supposedly hated. D’Angelo ...

D'Angelo influenced R&B in myriad ways with his 1995 debut album Brown Sugar. The album not only helped to pull the genre out of its trance-like love affair with new jack swing — the upbeat ...