3 Facts About the Making of D'Angelo's 'Brown Sugar' Title Track

The song was born from a computer crash The title track came together spontaneously when a computer crashed in the studio.

D’Angelo vamped keyboard chords to kill time While co-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad programmed a beat, D’Angelo improvised the chords that became the song’s foundation.

The track was not planned or rehearsed The entire recording was an off-the-cuff moment, not a premeditated composition.