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- Artist: D'Angelo
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- Release Date: July 03, 1995
- Total Time: 53:21
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Contains explicit content
- Genre: Rhythm & Blues
Review
By the mid-'90s, most urban R&B had become rather predictable, working on similar combinations of soul and hip-hop, or relying on vocal theatrics on slow, seductive numbers. With his debut album, Brown Sugar, the 21-year-old D'Angelo crashed down some of those barriers. D'Angelo concentrates on classic versions of soul and R&B, but unlike most of his contemporaries, he doesn't cut and paste older songs with hip-hop beats; instead, he attacks the forms with a hip-hop attitude, breathing new life into traditional forms. Not all of his music works -- there are several songs that sound incomplete, relying more on sound than structure. But when he does have a good song -- like the hit "Brown Sugar," Smokey Robinson's "Cruisin'," or the bluesy "Shit, Damn, Motherfucker," among several others -- D'Angelo's wild talents are evident. Brown Sugar might not be consistently brilliant, but it is one of the most exciting debuts of 1995, giving a good sense of how deep D'Angelo's talents run. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Brown Sugar (Lyrics) | D'Angelo, |
D'Angelo | (4:22) |
| Alright (Lyrics) | D'Angelo | D'Angelo | (5:15) |
| Jonz in My Bonz (Lyrics) | D'Angelo, Angie Stone | D'Angelo | (5:56) |
| Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine (Lyrics) | D'Angelo | D'Angelo | (4:46) |
| Shit, Damn, Motherfucker (Lyrics) | D'Angelo | D'Angelo | (5:14) |
| Smooth (Lyrics) | D'Angelo, |
D'Angelo | (4:18) |
| Cruisin' (Lyrics) | Smokey Robinson, Marvin Tarplin | D'Angelo | (6:28) |
| When We Get By (Lyrics) | D'Angelo | D'Angelo | (5:48) |
| Lady (Lyrics) | D'Angelo, Raphael Saadiq | D'Angelo | (5:47) |
| Higher (Lyrics) | D'Angelo, |
D'Angelo | (5:27) |
