Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

"On and On" was great. Subsequently releases have been progressively mediocre (funny how D'Angelo and Erykah have both nosedived considerably as the genre they helped create has risen in profile). Jill Scott is much better, 'cos she has actual tunes, delightful voice and relatively nice production. Angie Stone should be a house diva, not an R&B diva. Musiq Soulchild is forgettable. India.Arie = too far pleased with herself.

If Miles actually said that about Louis Armstrong, he's an even bigger idiot than I thought he was, and you're an even bigger idiot than him for going along with that nonsense.

BTW, unlike TimF I think that Erykah Badu and D'Angelo have improved a lot since their debuts.

Ooh, two top lies in one small sentence. a. Miles hated Satchmo = rubbish, because he workshipped him and never stopped saying so. b. Satchmo as Uncle Tom = typical latecome look-at-me advertorial by young soon-to-be-sellouts manipulatively presenting THEIR industry-friendliness as some species of Radical Cultural Politics. Armstrong = most revolutionary American artist of 20th century in all art-forms (by some way).

Destiny's Child = second. (OK, I'm joking. Fourth.)

But this bullshit about you-chumps-are-in-denial-blah-blah is still bullshit.

I agree! The music industry does it all time! To say they don't and i'm crazy for thinking so is seriously pathetic. When Ms. Badu first came out she was critically acclaimed and recieved lots of airplay. As she progressed as an artist her views and music became more radical. The american press and radio pretty much pushed her aside. The record company didn't publisize her last record in the states at all. Now that her head is shaved and she's talking hardcore black power, she is a complete nobosy as far as the buisness is concerned. Fortunatly she can still pack an arena so she can still make hers. Bling Bling. Oh and Miles did say that about Satchmo.

Using me to go off on a misdirected rant = DUD.

saw her on wednesday at manchester apollo -she asked the crowd "y'all wanna throw y' hands in the air and scream y' own name?" and then everybody (everybody!) did just that.

you didn't get that on radiohead's tent tour i'll tells y' that.

"Love of My Life" has the honour of being the first track that I regret not hearing in time for a best of 2002 list. It's not the first hip-hop nostalgia song, but it's the first one I've heard that really gives a feeling of what it's like to grow up with hip-hop ("I met him when I was a lttle girl...") And then Common genderfucks the personification, and even gives the gangstas their due (aside: is Electric Circus any good?) If the track lacks harsh words to say about its subject, that's not the purpose of odes.

Nice orchestral/kitchen appliance/something sound FX too. Anyone know who produced this - Erykah, or someone else?

I dont know where to start, this is crass racial paternalism at it's most disgusting.

.....or perhaps it's simply a difference of opinion.

one of the best artists of the last ten years.

Finally:

Erykah Badu revealed the new title of her fourth album, "Nu AmErykah," to a small room of fans in New York's Electric Lady studios last Thursday (Dec. 6). The set is due Feb. 26 via Universal Motown.

In reference to the prior provisional title, "Kabbah," Badu says that that name was never final and that she prefers to wait and title her albums once they're finished.

"I named this album 'Nu AmErykah' because I'm dealing with whatever is to come instead of what was," said Badu, decked out in jeans, a red kimono and her trademark afro. "In taking on a project like this, I'm taking the responsibility to talk for my race and my planet. I'm sure the record company will make their money and they've given me the blessing of time."

Badu's last EP, "Worldwide Underground," arrived in 2003 without much fanfare, but it still sold 609,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. "I didn't feel like doing the whole promotional circuit for that record," she admitted. "I'd just had a baby."

Making up for lost time, "Nu AmErykah" includes 18 songs that will be spread over two separately sold discs. The first single, "Honey," was produced by 9th Wonder and the '70s soul-tinged "Soldier 7" may be the follow-up track.

"We've waited almost 10 years for this album to come," said Universal executive vice president and Motown president Sylvia Rhone. "She inspires, sets trends and does music that no one's done before. Male, female, black white can listen to her and come away with something."

Here is the track list for "Nu AmErykah":

"American Promise"
"The Healer"
"Me"
"My People"
"Speech"
"Soldier 7"
"The Cell"
"Twinkle"
"Love Me"
"Honey"
"Emotions"
"Don't Be Long"
"YPOM"
"Hot Slow Jam"
"Jump Up in the Air"
"Loretta Brown"
"Dirty Dirty"
"The Healer Outro"

release date?

Feb. 26th

awes

i love her.

...and I still haven't fucking heard Mama's Gun. WTF?

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/9453/ebadnewamerykahokpthumbrc8.jpg

that is so awesome

I have to say, I still think she's quite high on herself and quite possibly nuts, but her music has grown on me -- and most of my favorite artists are damn high on themselves and entirely nuts anyway.

'Otherside of the Game' is a very pretty song.

Worldwide Underground has really grown on me, I love that shit.

'The Healer' on YouTube.

That's good.

Yeah. I was worried that there wouldn't be any weird/playful shit on this album, just boring "soulful" beats.

Badu caters to the record geeks in her video for "Honey":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJt5ADHzIY

Can YOU name all the albums?

the only ones i didnt know were the diana ross one and the rufus+chaka one.

nice video. she looks pretty hot doing the ohio players sleeve.

I still think she's quite high on herself and quite possibly nuts

This album will remove any doubt on the latter proposition. Whoa!

yeah this shit is crazy. "The Cell"!!! WOW.

"Soldier" & "Telephone" are wicked as well... can't wait to buy this on tuesday.

this is hotness

"The Cell" and "Master Teachers" are both !!!!!!!!!!!

Honestly, "Honey" at the end of the album after all this can't help but sound a little meh.

dang youze guys are good at finding this stuff, I feel so old-fashioned for having to wait

havent heard any of this new stuff aside from honey. is it in the vein of WWU aka sounds like moodymann producing it?

It seems the total flip of WU. Both are diffuse, but that one felt relaxed and smooth and this one is some cracked avant nuttiness.

I love that "Honey" video, though. When the beat gets all militant as the "support your local record store" title flashes up and then the freaky Planet of the Apes ending?!

Seen her twice i think? Late both times by at least an hour and absolutely slayed both shows.

the old unplugged episode with the roots is so fucking good

wait maybe it wasn’t the roots. sorry, stoned

I saw her do a STELLAR show at the Brixtno Academy, super-intense version of Green Eyes, and she hits that penultimate long note at the end, and is just spent, and everything goes silent, and she's just stood there, in the moment, wrung out, feeling it, everyone in the room is feeling it, this moment of like, "Just feel the dust falling, the heaviness", absolute silence,

And then this incredibly drunken, off-key voice from the audience croons out, "Baaaa-aaaa-aaag laaaa-aaaa-aaaa-dy!", and she just dissolves into hysterics, and the whole room erupted into laughter, and it was just this wonderful thing where the tension had risen to dizzying levels, and this relief that followed it. It was one of my favourite concerts ever.

Oh man, I hope something similar happens at my concert in October!

I've seen her live two or three times. One was behind Mama's Gun and she killed it. Another time was ... I forget when, but all I remember is 15 minutes of her doing pilates.

She gave a basically straightforward concert in Minneapolis last night, but damn that's all I needed from her. Fantastic, fun and breezy ... AND she did "I Want You" interpolated with "Don't Stop the Music"!

I heard 'the healer' for the first time in years recently and reminded it was so ahead of if it's time, conceptually and sonically. This is a cool live version.dope!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuObEg9A2Ew

i might put the healer on a top 500 songs of all time list

sunday afternoons + slow jams 101. not really a song i've ever grown tired of. ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxITI3A2KWA

"next lifetime" (1997)

super sustained vibe on the long live version from the only official live album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05KLHZYOpg

probably one of the defining artists of my life. love her so much.

so good, playing it now - thanx for the reminder!

welp, guess it's afternoon somewhere. close enough.

it ain’t that type of party

or in other words: I can’t make sense of your last post.

sunday afternoons + slow jams 101.

― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Sunday, May 22, 2022 11:36 AM

time once again making fools of us all. wish it was the other way around. next lifetime, right?

seeing her again in August in Brooklyn, i think this is the fourth time? pretty excited.

Ms. Erykah Badu (a.k.a. @fatbellybella) is giving us a show at @RaviniaFestival tonight.

Here she is performing:

“Otherside of the Game”

🎥: @Waldens_Block // The TRiiBE pic.twitter.com/zF0rsQTvfT

— The TRiiBE (@TheTRiiBE) September 12, 2022

brooklyn set was, unsurprisingly noteworthy for her going on about two hours late and for it being fucking great

Wish she'd make another record soon, she's the very best

here's something i missed―
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1b4Spy9VRQ

rc + the gritz feat eb - "leave me alone" (2013)

https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/erykah-badu-women-in-music-2025-icon-1235924580/

new album in the works at last, produced by the alchemist

Alchemist is crazy busy, he just finished the forthcoming Yasiin Bey project

https://www.wjhl.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/819035533/erykah-badu-announces-liberation-from-major-label-set-to-release-new-music-on-her-own-label-control-freaq-records/

she put out a press release last week that seems to have largely gone unnoticed but it promises a 'full album release this summer', although there's no other details except she's releasing it on her own label

she's also doing a livestreamed show on juneteenth so maybe there'll be a single around then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrQic9S1Qf4

was about to post. it is fine but not nearly on the level she is capable of achieving

that's where i'm at too

yeah this is alright but hoping the project offers more than her vibing over familiar instrumentals. i do like alchemist generally but i wouldn't say he's a producer i'm particularly excited about badu collaborating with

sounds super uninspired, glad to see some backlash over ai slop video and cover, but the glitches around 1:04 and a few more times indicate that... this was ai mastered as well?