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GQ Exclusive: D’Angelo Plugs In
From GQ correspondent Amy Wallace’s June 2012 profile:
D’Angelo’s newfound discipline is evident in the way he has thrown himself into studying a new instrument, practicing for five and six hours a day. “The one benefit of this eleven-year sabbatical was he used 10,000 Gladwellian hours to master the guitar,” says Questlove, who compares D to Frank Zappa. “He can play the shit out of it, and I don’t mean no Lil Wayne shit.