*D’Angelo is set to make a major comeback to the stage at the 17th annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia, which will take place from May 31 to June 1 at The Mann in Fairmount Park.
This marks the first full audience performance for the singer in nearly a decade, after his 2021 Verzuz appearance at the Apollo Theater. Other big names in the 2025 lineup include Meek Mill, Lenny Kravitz, GloRilla, Tems, and Jeezy, who will celebrate the 20th anniversary of his album Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101, Complex reports. Tickets for Roots Picnic are available now HERE.
D’Angelo, whose last album Black Messiah was released in 2014, recently appeared on the track “I Want You Forever” from The Book of Clarence soundtrack. His return to music has been teased by Raphael Saadiq, who mentioned that the beloved artist is working on new material.
“I think he’s in an amazing space. He’s working on six pieces right now,” Saddiq said on the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast last September.
“And he seems super excited. He’s in control of his own destiny at this point. It’s no management. He got a management team, but I’m saying they can’t make him do anything he don’t want to do. I’m sure of that. And he knows it’s on him now. And I think that’s a different angle that he’s coming from.”
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One of the new D’Angelo tracks is a song recorded years ago by Linwood Rose, the supergroup he was briefly part of that included Saadiq, and rapper Q-Tip.
“I think it’s going to be a record on D’Angelo’s new album when it comes out, a record that we all did together,” said Saadiq. “Linwood Rose lives. I’m playing bass, D’s playing, me and D is singing backgrounds. It’s funky as hell, too. It’s like, D is a bad boy. … It’s aged well. Good music ages well.”
D’Angelo told Rolling Stone in 2015, “I do want to put a lot of music out there. I feel like, in a lot of respects, that I’m just getting started.”
In 2019, he gave fans a peek into his life in the documentary “Devil’s Pie: D’Angelo.” Directed by Dutch filmmaker and photographer Carine Bijlsma, the film combines rare and never-before-seen footage with interviews from the singer’s family, management, and collaborators such as Questlove, who offer insight into D’Angelo’s personal and professional life, Complex reported.
The documentary highlights D’Angelo’s substance abuse battle and the circumstances that prompted him to take a 14-year hiatus following the release of his “Voodoo” album in 2000.
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