Ever since ODB tragically passed away, the world has been desperate for a bloated, incoherent, and scraggly-yet-loveable goofball to call their own. Former hardbody and pretty boy D'Angelo graciously steps up to the plate.
The soul singer was busted Sunday in Richmond, VA, charged with drunk driving and possesion of marijuana and another controlled substance, believed to be cocaine. This isn't the first time the former Michael Eugene Archer has been in trouble with the law–he was detained by police for various misdemeanors (agressive driving, disorderly conduct) after getting into a tiff with a woman at a gas station in November 2002. Aside from that, we've heard nary a peep from D'Angelo since he famously exposed his crotch-trenches in the video for "Untitled". But the years and substances have not been kind to the singer, as seen in these before and after shots from Gawker.
Watery craprocker John Mayer is one man who refuses to take D'angelo's absence from recording and working out lying down. "I'm writing to ask you to put out a follow-up to one of the few records to change my life forever, Voodoo," he wrote in an open letter to the soul singer that was printed in Esquire. "When Voodoo came out in 2000, I stood in line at Tower Records in Atlanta at midnight to get it." Where have you gone, D'Angelo? John Mayer turns his lonely eyes to you.
