Busta Rhymes shares new song “Magic” to honour late D’Angelo.
Busta Rhymes decided to honour late R&B legend D’Angelo with a heartfelt tribute song titled “Magic.” The song comes following the sudden death of the singer earlier this month at the age of 51.
“When I met him, it was just a good, beautiful energy with the bro. D’Angelo’s personality speaks volumes because of how reserved he was. When it was time for him to actually speak — when you heard him sing or play the keyboard — it magnified the polar opposite of how quiet he was,” Busta told Okayplayer in a statement.
“The entire 34 years of knowing D has been an incredible experience … I feel like the Earth shifted when D came to do music. He was the embodiment of some shit that was a complete balance of what our ancestors created, to where he took it.”
“The sh-t that he did decide to share with us — when people discover it, now or years from now, [it] is going to still shift the way of thinking. For whoever can appreciate real music. People think that it ends because of his physical transition, but it needed to be made clear that there’s nothing about him that’s going to end anytime soon.”
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On the song, Rhymes raps: “The sh-t he did cut deep in the soul, hit the center of your core / Oh yes, we wanted more! Damn right, we wanted more! / We could not get enough of the god, damn, he was so charismatic / Every body of work he contributed to culture ended up being a classic / Type of sh-t that made a ni–a romantic together with his woman, climactic / Thank God He gave you to us as a gift that kept giving us this magic.”
Listen to the song below.
