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pstrongD'Angelo/strong is giving his very first interview in 12 years (can't believe it's been that long!) in the June 2012 issue of emGQ/em magazine.nbsp; The incredibly sexy crooner, who was once hailed as the next strongMarvin Gaye/strong, is telling all on what we've all be wondering about this past decade.nbsp;/p
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pThe quot;Cruisinquot; singer reveals why he hastily left the game of music, his run-ins with the law amp; substance abuse, and why he turned down the sexual advances of Hollywood chicks like strongMadonna/strong..../p
!--break--!--break--pMost of us never understood why a man with such talent literally threw it away for booze amp; drugs--voluntarily--just to escape the Hollywood life.nbsp; But now, after his chit chat with emGQ/em magazine, we just might.nbsp;/p
pMichael Archer (government name) was once tipping the scales at 300 pounds after he previously sculpted his body into a physique that had women dropping their panties just from watching the tv screen.nbsp; And he did so to spite his own admirers.nbsp; Here are the highlights where D'Angelo, along with his close friendsstrong Chris Rock/strong amp; strongQuestlove/strong, explains without being PC why black stardom is a heavy price for sanity...and why he's very ready for his comeback:/p
blockquotepstrongDrsquo;Angelo on battling his substance abuse during his hiatus/strong: ldquo;I didnrsquo;t really think I had a problem like that,rdquo; he says, taking a hit off a Newport. ldquo;I felt like, you know, all I got to do is clean up and Irsquo;ll be fine. Just get in the studio and Irsquo;ll be fucking fine.rdquo;/p
pstrong...on his arrest for soliciting sex from an undercover officer/strong: ldquo;It was just me making a stupid decision, a wrong turn, on the wrong night. Irsquo;m not the role-model motherfucker. Look at all the shit that Irsquo;ve been in.rdquo;/p
pstrong...on Madonna:/strongbr /
When Madonna turned 39, she asked him to sing ldquo;Happy Birthdayrdquo; at her party. One press report had her sitting on his lap and French-kissing him. In fact, two sources say that ultimately D rebuffed her advances at another gathering not long after. At that event, the sources say, Madonna walked over and told a woman sitting next to D, ldquo;I think yoursquo;re in my seat.rdquo; The woman got up. Madonna sat down and told him, ldquo;Irsquo;d like to know what yoursquo;re thinking.rdquo; To which D replied, ldquo;Irsquo;m thinking yoursquo;re rude.rdquo;/p
pstrongChris Rock on black celebrities:/strong ldquo;Black stardom is rough, dude,rdquo; Chris Rock tells me when I reach him to talk about D. ldquo;I always say Tom Hanks is an amazing actor and Denzel Washington is a god to his people. If yoursquo;re a black ballerina, you represent the race, and you have responsibilities that go beyond your art. How dare you just be excellent?rdquo;br /
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Questlove, Drsquo;Angelorsquo;s former bandleader, on calling him after Amy Winehousersquo;s death: /strongldquo;rsquo;Drsquo;s the first person I called,rsquo; Questlove recalls. And I was just honest, like, lsquo;Look, man, Irsquo;m sorry. I know yoursquo;re thinking Irsquo;m avoiding you like the plague.rsquo; I just said plain and simple, lsquo;Man, there was a period in which it seemed like you were hell-bent on following the footsteps of our idols, and the one thing you have yet to follow them in was death.rsquo;rdquo;/p
pstrongQuestlove on Drsquo;Angelorsquo;s plans to escape stardom:/strong ldquo;On the last day of the eight-month [Voodoo] tour, Questlove says Drsquo;Angelo told him, lsquo;Yo man, I cannot wait until this fucking tour is over. Irsquo;m going to go in the woods, drink some hooch, grow a beard, and get fat.rsquo; Questlove thought he was joking. lsquo;I was like, lsquo;Yoursquo;re a funny guy.rsquo; And then it started to happen. Thatrsquo;s how much he wanted to distance himself.rdquo;/p
pstrongQuestlove on self-defeating black artists:/strong ldquo;Questlove has a theory about what happens to black geniusmdash;what he calls a lsquo;crazy psychological kind of stoppage that prevents them from following through. A sort of self-saboteur disorder.rsquo;/p
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pRead the full interview over at a href=http://www.gq.com/entertainment/music/201206/dangelo-gq-june-2012-interviewstrongGQ/strong/a.nbsp; The issue is on stands now.nbsp; And you can catch D'Angelo getting back to his sexy form this Labor Day weekend at the a href=http://theybf.com/2012/05/21/dangelo-gets-sexy-in-gq-mag-announced-for-jay-zs-made-in-america-festival-lineup-withstrongMade In America festival in Philly/strong/a./p
pemPhoto credit: Gregory Harris/GQ/em/p
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