The elusive prodigy opened up last night in Brooklyn, as part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York.
In high school, he was in a rap group called I.D.U.
That stands for Intelligent, Deadly, but Unique. He was an MC (“I was pretty fucking good too”) and co-produced the group’s beats.
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But we can credit his pop career as we know it to Ellis Marsalis — in a way.
The jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis taught music theory at Virginia Commonwealth University while D’Angelo was in high school. D had studied music theory with another VCU professor, and was going to start studying with Marsalis, but Marsalis left Virginia to go teach in New Orleans. D’Angelo’s now thankful for this — classical jazz would have changed his whole style, he said.
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