From New Breed Leader: Call Me Michael, Chapter 6: The Jam of the Tramps
June 1997 (2 years and 4 months before The Video) D'Angelo had been very busy the past few months, nearly living at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, jamming and recording with Questlove and Raphael. He was immersed in music, searching for musical inspiration from the greats. D had a term to describe the greats. He called them "Yodas". He soaked up everything from the Yodas; from every genre, jazz, rock, funk, soul, even folk. Not just Prince, but the Founder of the studio he was camping out in: Jimi Hendrix. The other Yodas were George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic; Bootsy Collins; Sly & The Family Stone; Stevie Wonder; Roberta Flack; Betty Davis; Joni Mitchell; Miles Davis. But there were days when D didn't show up to the studio at all, leaving Ahmir, the producers and engineers frustrated when they couldn't locate him. Cellphones were still a new thing, but D never had one on him. After absorbing all that music back at the studio, D ...
