Dreamin' Eyes: Cherry & Dark Chocolate Blondie for D'Angelo (half-dozen)

There are few Black artists from the past 30 years who call to mind LOVE (or, frankly, lust) in the way that D'Angelo did. First, his very first album was the first love child of his ill fated relationship with musician Angie Stone. Secondly, his Untitled music video was the awakening of the, um, hunger of a generation. Born Michael Eugene Archer, D'Angelo not only came to be deeply respected as a musician's musician, he was a Kevin Bacon figure in collaborative work and the community building that comes with deeply loving your craft and your people. With associated acts as varied as former partner Angie Stone, Questlove, Anthony Hamilton, Raphael Saadiq, Prince, and Ms. Lauryn Hill, there's barely a corner of modern R&B music that isn't less than six degrees of separation from D'Angelo. Though he achieved his highest level of pop culture success for music about love and lovemaking, the musician cut his chops in the Black church, and was deeply powered by a longing to see a just an