Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar is the debut album of American recording artist D'Angelo, released July 3, 1995, on EMI Music. Recording sessions for the album took place from 1994 to 1995 at Battery Studios and RPM Studios in New York City and at the Pookie Lab in Sacramento, California. Production, instrumentation, arrangements, and songwriting were primarily handled by D'Angelo. Brown Sugar contains themes of love and romance, and features a fusion of R&B and soul music styles with musical elements of funk, quiet storm, and hip hop music. The album debuted at number six on the US Billboard Top R&B Albums chart, selling 300,000 copies in its first two months. With the help of its four singles, it spent 65 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and attained...