D'Angelo: 'I'm Trying To Go Deep'
D'Angelo: 'I'm Trying To Go Deep' Enlarge this image toggle caption Drew Gurian/Red Bull Content Pool Drew Gurian/Red Bull Content Pool On Wednesday night in Brooklyn the elusive singer and songwriter, who hasn't released an album in almost 15 years and performs rarely, sat down in front of 500 people in the auditorium of a museum and thousands of people listening online. D'ANGELO: It's not, because I don't know how many – there're not really a lot of cats there — from there — that made it really big. D'ANGELO: Right, and he had just did the cover of Bobby Womack's — QUESTLOVE, FROM THE AUDIENCE: "If You Think You're Lonely Now." And so there was this moment where I was like, "God, I don't have him yet," and I decided to do — there's a song — there's a side Prince project called Madhouse. GEORGE: You know, I feel like — so let's just take a couple more questions.
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