D'Angelo released a cover of Cruisin' as the second single from Brown Sugar on October 12, 1995. This neo-soul rendition of Smokey Robinson's 1979 hit was commercially successful, charting within the top ten of the US R&B charts. The cover demonstrated D'Angelo's ability to reimagine classic soul music through a contemporary lens, helping establish him as a pioneer of the neo-soul movement alongside artists like Maxwell and Erykah Badu. The original version by Smokey Robinson

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