After a four year recording-hiatus, R&B crooner D'Angelo will return with his long-anticipated follow-up to his platinum debut, "Brown Sugar," when he releases his sophomore effort in early 1999.

Entitled "Voodoo," D'Angelo recorded much of the album at Electric Lady Studios in New York, a recording facility founded by rock & roll voodoo child Jimi Hendrix, which D'Angelo says helped inspire some of the new material.

"[Jimi Hendrix] inspired music in general," D'Angelo told the MTV Radio Network, "the whole state of music right now wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't for him, especially in terms of how music has developed."

Guests on "Voodoo," which was produced by D'Angelo with the assistance of Raphael Saadiq of Tony! Toni! Tone! and Gang Starr's DJ Premier, include Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest, Roots drummer Questlove and jazz artists Roy Hargrove and Charlie Hunter.