If the smooth soul sounds of D'Angelo make you melt, you're likely to spontaneously combust if you see the December issue of "Paper" magazine.

The R&B hitmaker turns up on the magazine's cover and in its pages wearing tight briefs, a gold chain, his tattoos, and nothing else.

The singer lets it all hang out in the cover story as well, talking about how he first got turned on to music at church, how he cut his teeth covering Phil Collins, and why it took him four years to put together his highly anticipated follow-up to 1995's "Brown Sugar."

"I don't look at it as being a long time. I look at it as being the right time," D'Angelo tells the magazine. "This is the time for it to come out. This is the time it was intended for."

The December issue of "Paper" hits newsstands next week, while D'Angelo's new album, "Voodoo," is expected to arrive early next year.