Last week R&B crooner DAngelo appeared on " The Tavis Smiley Show " in his first television interview in over a decade .

During the two-part conversation , the Grammy Award-winner discussed various topics, including how he felt objectified by female fans following the release of his 2000 video Untitled , which famously shows the singer performing topless.

It would bother me...A lot of times the crowd -- or a lot of the ladies were just screaming, Take it off. And I kind of felt like, for lack of a better thing, like a male stripper, you know? Or I expected to be that, he said.I wasnt mad at thatbut I think that Im a serious artist. So its a fine line to walk. But I accept that. This is the realm that were in.

The song -- which was featured on DAngelos second album Voodoo -- ultimately went on to receive Grammy Awards in 2001 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Album. Following the album's success, D'Angelo took a hiatus and returned in 2014 with his latest album Black Messiah.

As he has discussed in previous interviews , the albums lyrics from songs on "Black Messiah" speak about social issues often addressed by the Black Lives Matter Movement -- making it his most political project to date.

Young black men and women are just getting killed for nothing, he said before later adding, Im not trying to be like a poster child or anything of the movement, but definitely a voice as a black man -- as a concerned black man and as a father, as well.

Check out part one of DAngelos interview with Tavis Smiley in the clip above, and part two below.