00:00Well, the music world is mourning the loss of an absolute icon at an incredibly young age.
00:08D'Angelo passed away this morning.
00:10We broke a story this morning about the fact that he died in New York City
00:15and had been battling pancreatic cancer very privately.
00:21But there are some signs now that we know this,
00:24that he had been going through this most of this year at the very least.
00:30But, yes, D'Angelo, Grammy winner, has won four Grammys, but was nominated 14 times.
00:38Incredible music starting from the mid-90s.
00:41You saw him.
00:42Well, I saw him once live, and that was with Dave Chappelle at the Hollywood Bowl.
00:49But the video that everyone remembers, especially depending on your age,
00:53actually pretty much at any age, everyone remembers the untitled How Does It Feel video
00:59because he at least appeared to be fully nude.
01:04It was one of those...
01:05Illusions.
01:06It was one of those illusions.
01:07Illusions, but it got a lot of people talking when that came out.
01:11But his music was...
01:12This was a guy who was openly so...
01:15He hasn't heard his music.
01:16...had not recorded it in a long time.
01:19Yeah.
01:20God, I think his last album was early 2000s.
01:23Yeah.
01:24Something like that.
01:25But he was influenced by James Brown, Prince, Jimi Hendrix.
01:31And you could hear it in his music, and it was...
01:34And he also worked with a lot of icons.
01:37Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child, Angie Stone.
01:42Which is really sad.
01:44They have a son together.
01:46And Angie Stone, of course, died early.
01:48How old is his son?
01:48His son is probably 20...
01:5027.
01:5127.
01:52But Angie Stone herself died in a car accident earlier this year.
01:57Which is just crazy to think that this now person and son has to go through life without mother and father.
02:03But it's just so crazy that we hadn't heard from D'Angelo in a long time.
02:07I mean, we didn't know that he was sick or that he was battling this pancreatic cancer.
02:11He kept it to himself, and...
02:13He was supposed to perform at the Roots picnic this summer in Philadelphia, and he canceled.
02:20And they had said at the time, just for an unforeseen medical reason.
02:24And I don't think anyone thought anything of it.
02:25Right.
02:26Because, you know, he's not a young person, but he's not old enough to where anyone would think, like, oh, he's going to be, you know, not making it.
02:33Or we're going to be sitting here talking about him dying a few months later.
02:36So, this is super tragic and just, you know, super sad story to just come out off the random.
02:41Because you just didn't see it coming.
02:42He also was not at Angie's funeral, and we've been told by people connected to the family.
02:47That was almost a year ago, wasn't it?
02:48No, that was in March.
02:49It was like, yeah, earlier this year.
02:52Yeah.
02:52So, he's been sick most of this year.
02:54He was getting treatment.
02:55The reason he wasn't at our funeral is he was getting treatment.
02:57But we didn't know what it was about at the time.
03:00What was war, right.
03:01Hello, Mark, Los Angeles.
03:02First of all, rest in power to a goat in our community.
03:05I mean, like you said, we lost Angie earlier this year.
03:08So, you know, I'm praying for the children.
03:11I'm always intrigued when black people die young.
03:14It's just ridiculous.
03:16So, so much I want to say, but I wish to use this time to encourage us to love,
03:21encourage us and our loved ones to prioritize mental and physical health,
03:24because without it, nothing else matters, you know?
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