Busta Rhymes delivered an emotional homage to D’Angelo with a new track titled “Magic,” released through Okayplayer, honouring the late neo-soul luminary who died earlier this month after a private fight with cancer.
The seven-minute tribute finds Busta Rhymes pouring his heart out over the haunting instrumental of “One Mo’Gin,” a standout from D’Angelo’s revered 2000 album Voodoo. The track, more eulogy than freestyle, walks listeners through their 34-year friendship, beginning with their first encounter in the studio with A Tribe Called Quest. Busta paints D’Angelo as a once-in-a-generation artist: “The man never needed a co-sign, he never needed a voucher/He touched them keys like Escobar in the Medellín/And he touched the souls of the people and everything between/We gotta feel it/And embrace all of his spirit/From the music, whenever we hear it.”
