News Posted October 29, 2018 Posted October 29, 2018 Although I’m not much of a gamer, even I knew of the Red Dead Redemption 2 craze over the weekend — friends were conspicuously MIA, social media was flooded with references, you name it. Apparently, the new video game didn’t just offer players a third installment in the Red Dead series, it also delivered one heck of a gift to music fans: the first bit of new material from D’Angelo since 2014’s Black Messiah. The R&B singer’s contribution is called “Unshaken” (full title: “May I? Standing Unshaken – Oh Traveller Have a Seat”). The song wasn’t officially listed in the credits for the Red Dead Redemption 2 soundtrack, which boasts the likes of Arca and Colin Stetson, but was discovered by close listeners between “Paradise Mercifully Departed” and “Dear Uncle Tacitus” missions in Chapter 5 of the story, as MissInfo points out. (Read: The 100 Greatest Debut Singles of All Time) A video game rip of “Unshaken” was uploaded to YouTube, but also appears on a new BBC playlist, so this thing officially does exist. It’s possible D’Angelo was destined all along to be part of the Red Dead world; as Twitter users noted in 2015, the outfit he wore for his 2015 Saturday Night Live performance looked like something straight out of the Western-themed game. Take a listen to “Unshaken” below. Lost in all this Super Bowl coverage, D'Angelo went on SNL last night looking straight out of Red Dead Redemption. pic.twitter.com/7sFaFEWlxH — Greg Perez (@perez_g) February 2, 2015 D'Angelo looks like a bonus character you unlock on Red Dead Redemption, bruh. #SNL #DAngeloOnSNL #DAngelo pic.twitter.com/GIX7dcOXdI — 𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃𝑒𝒹, 𝒸𝓎𝓃𝓉𝒽𝒾𝒶 𝒻. (@cynfinite) February 1, 2015 Source Quote
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