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D'Angelo

Devil's Pie

Release date: 31st October 1998

From Voodoo
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About This Track

D'Angelo and producer DJ Premier built 'Devil's Pie' as a moral reckoning wrapped in aggression. The track anchors itself on a hard-hitting drum and snare combination, its production bearing the influence of Premier and J Dilla's approach to rhythm. D'Angelo's lyrics catalogue the appetites that drive people toward compromise: materialism, greed, lust, jealousy, the hunger for status and money. The song frames these desires as a shared human weakness, a line we all stand in, rather than condemning from outside. What gives the track its force is the tension between its musical directness and the philosophical weight of its subject. D'Angelo doesn't preach; he confesses. He acknowledges his own complicity in the systems he describes, asking who he is to judge when he feels the pull of the same temptations. The chorus returns again and again to the image of appetite and excess, each repetition tightening the knot between desire and damnation. It's a song about knowing better and doing it anyway, about the gap between understanding and escape.

"Devil's Pie" is a track by D'Angelo, from the album Voodoo, released 31st October 1998. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

D'Angelo

D'Angelo

Lyrics

Devil's Pie

[Chorus]

Mm

Fuck the slice, want the pie

Why ask why 'til we fry

Watch us all stand in line

For a slice of the devil's pie

Drugs and thugs, women, wine

Three or four at a time

Watch them all stand in line

For a slice of the devil's pie

[Verse 1]

Who am I to justify

All the evil in our eye

When I myself feel the high

From all that I despise?

Behind the jail or in the grave

I have to lay in this bed I made

And if I die before I wake

I hope the Lord don't hesitate

To get to heaven, went through hell

Tell my peeps all is well

All them fools whose soul's for sale

Sitting next to the Jezebel

Demons screamin' in my ear

All my anger, all my fear

If I holler, let them hear

In this spinning sphere

[Chorus]

Fuck the slice, want the pie

Why ask why 'til we fry

Watch us all stand in line

For a slice of the devil's pie

Drugs and thugs, women, wine

Three or four at a time

Watch them all stand in line

For a slice of the devil's pie

[Verse 2]

Main ingredients (Uh) to this dish (Yeah)

Goes like this, here's the list

Materialistic, greed and lust, jealousy, envious

Bread and dough, cheddar cheese

Flash and stash, cash and cream

Temperature's at a high degree

Where niggas come to feast

Hell is this all about?

Apocalypse, ain't no doubt

Everybody's ho'ing out

All the loot, all the clout

Right or wrong, do or die

Only vengeance could pacify

Watch your back and so will I

In these days and time

[Chorus]

Fuck the slice, want the pie

Why ask why 'til we fry

Watch us all stand in line

For a slice of the devil's pie

Drugs and thugs, women, wine

Three or four at a time

Watch them all stand in line

For a slice of the devil's pie

[Interlude]

(Cut the pie)

(Tryna eat)

(Come on, come on)

(Come on, come on)

(If you want)

(Cut the pie)

(Up on the plate)

(Check it out)

(Mark of the beast)

(That’s how it be in this everlasting game)

[Bridge]

Oh, woah-woah-woah-woah

Oh

Oh-oh-oh, woah-woah-woah

Ah

[Verse 3]

Ain't no justice, it's just us

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

Time has come for most of us

To choose in which God we trust

I know I was born to die

Searching to find a peace of mind

With eighty-five, dumb and blind

There can be no compromise

[Chorus]

Fuck the slice (Yeah), want the pie (Uh)

Why ask why 'til we fry ('Til we gon' fry)

Watch us all stand in line

For a slice of the devil's pie (Yeah, yeah)

Drugs and thugs (Oh-oh), women, wine (Huh)

Three or four at a time

[Outro]

Uh, wait a minute

Uh, let me tell you 'bout a slice of the devil's pie (Oh-oh)

Uh, said everybody out there can get down with the slice of the devil's pie (Oh-oh-oh, huh)

For a slice of the devil's pie

Little women in the streets sell her fuckin' body for a (For a slice of the devil's pie)

Oh-oh

Niggas killin' each other in the streets for (For a slice of the devil's pie)

Say what?

All in line, all in line (Oh)

For a slice of the devil's pie (Yeah)

All in line, all in line (Give me some)

For a slice of the devil's pie

All in line, all in line (What? Huh?)

For a slice of the devil's pie (Yeah)

All in line, all in line (I don't give a fuck, I ain't goin' out for the—)

For a slice of the devil's pie (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)

Track details

From Voodoo

1998
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Voodoo
Voodoo
D'Angelo
25th January 2000
Release year
1998
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D'Angelo — Devil's Pie

D'Angelo — Devil's Pie
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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    D’Angelo, DJ Premier
    Lyricist
    D’Angelo
    Producer
    D’Angelo, DJ Premier
    Additional Instrumentation
    D’Angelo
    Background Vocals
    D’Angelo
    Lead Vocals
    D’Angelo
    Mastering Engineer
    Tom Coyne
    Mixing Engineer
    D’Angelo, Russell Elevado
    Programmer
    DJ Premier
    Recording Engineer
    Russell Elevado
    Sample Programmer
    DJ Premier
    Scratches
    DJ Premier
    Vocal Samples
    Big Pun, Dick Gregory, Fat Joe, Masta Killa, Natruel, Pete Rock, Raekwon
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