For everybody wondering how Angie Stone pulled D'Angelo back in the day, Angie talks about her relationship with D'Angelo over at essence.com.
Essence.com: Would this younger guy happen to be D’Angelo? Your relationship with him received a lot of public scrutiny.
A.S.: No, I wasn't referring to D'Angelo. But you know what, the criticism that D’Angelo and I received about our relationship only began once he became successful. What people didn’t realize was that before he became successful there was Angie Stone from the group Vertical Hold—a strong beautiful sister who dated somebody who had not even crossed the threshold of the industry yet. When I was dating him he wore glasses, had short hair and his pants were hanging down to his butt. He was just a 19-year-old kid with big shorts and nobody cared and no one saw his beauty but me. And I told him, “You are beautiful. I promise you when your record drops your lips are gonna become famous, your eyes—everything will become famous. But he couldn’t see it because his self-esteem wasn’t where it is today. He didn’t even have an image and his hair was really short so I braided his hair with thread for his first album cover. It wasn’t until Brown Sugar came out that people actually took a good look at him and said, “You know what? He’s fine.” Then all of a sudden, he’s so fine he shouldn’t be with me.
I felt kinda bad reading this cause I'm somewhat guilty saying that too. But you have to admit D'Angelo was fine back in the day.
~AfroMuffs
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