NEW AMERYKAH, POLL 1 (4th World War)

the cell just confused me for the longest time. i love the future-doo-wop backing vocals on the chorus.

is neo-soul still a thing?

neoul

My gf is taking a class in organizational management, and one of her textbooks contains the following passage:

"The ability to reframe is one of the most powerful capacities of great artists. It can be equally powerful for managers. Undergraduates at Vanderbilt University captured this in a class-iniated rap (for best results, rap fans should imagine the rapper Common doing these lines in a neo-soul, hip-hop style):

Reframe, reframe, put a new spin on the mess you're in.
Reframe, reframe, try to play a different game.
Reframe, reframe, when you're in a tangle, shoot another angle;
look at things a different way."

One of the book's authors:
http://www.bloch.umkc.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-directory/bolman/image.aspx?id=302&width=189&height=189

I am uh on board for this, ty ILM

just, just, wishin' more of the consensus stuff, was of this calibre imo ;-)

the r&b conversion, it begins

btw there's lots of A+ discussion on the general badu thread too, which has a lot of initial reactions: Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

I did say I'd be investigating hip-hop in 2009, didn't foresee being blindsided by R&B! Will check that thread...

I apologize for not getting into this album earlier; the healer just hit permarepeat.
Retroactive p+j addition is GO

thumbs up

30,000 MEGAWATTS OF POWER BABY, RADIATING YOUR SOUL

IT'S BIGGER THAN MY NIGGA

TO MY FOLKS UP ON THE HILL WITH THE CAKE AND THE DOLLAR BILL

GET YA MONEY DOLLAR BILL YALL

SHITTY DAMN DAMN BABY BANG

PO MAN GOT HIS BACK TO THE DOOR

last time i listned to this it occurred to me that "Soldier" might be or even proably is about her son, still learnin new shit when I hear this, I love it so much

I wanted this album's other half to come out desperately until I realized I AM this album's other half!

link pls?

it's not out dude

BE WARNED BE WARNED . WHEN FOLLOWING MY TWEETS KEEP IN MIND IM AM MUCH MUCH MORE SPIRITUAL THAN YOU . YOU MAY NOT GET IT . AND ITS OKAY .
26 minutes ago from web

@morrissey2637 IF YOU HAD TO ASK THAT , THEN YOU HAVE DEFFINATELY CONFIRMED IT FOR ME . THANKS .
17 minutes ago from web in reply to morrissey2637

MY SPELLING IS NOT SO SPIRITUAL THO...
17 minutes ago from web

uhh guys are we all reading this right now

she's in the middle of this hilarious beef with this fat chick, it's killin me

unfortunately "WHEN FOLLOWING MY POSTS KEEP IN MIND IM AM MUCH MUCH MORE SPIRITUAL THAN YOU" is too long for a screen name

or maybe just MUCH MUCH TOO SPIRITUAL for a display name

I wanted this album's other half to come out desperately until I realized I AM this album's other half!

― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Saturday, July 25, 2009 9:16 AM Bookmark

otm

yea i love love love this album

told you

we ain't dead yet

we've been livin through yo internet

tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo0ZSRvYQRo

brilliancy

hell yes!!!

I wanted this album's other half to come out desperately until I realized I AM this album's other half!

― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Saturday, July 25, 2009 9:16 AM Bookmark

I salute you Eric H., because you are me.

would have voted Twinkle because it is insane

also because it quotes like my 4th-favourite movie ever

Hello friends.

i can entirely get behind that

The soldier is mama's gun.

lexpretend cf danger, "gotta keep that clip on mama's gun"

lexpretend …and of course "danger" sets its scene with erykah
pacing the floor, baby in her arms

rodneyjgreene which of course ties into "Otherside of the
Game", hence "Otherside" ---> "Danger" ---> "Soldier" = a vicious cycle of like father, like son

the honey vid is evidence she reads ilm

haha how so?

It's probably not fair of me to wanna SB people for what they wrote over a year ago, huh.

i was gonna say Honey vid is like cover connections but maybe not so much the connections part. IT IS however like having yr girl wear one of your shirts to bed ^_^

also this should be again:
Here's a Youtube of a song from the new album, from a VH1 performance. It is called "Annie Don't Wear No Panties"

http://www.youtube.com/v/9d9eydCfTdw&hl=en

I don't think I voted in this or "Master Teacher" would have a '1' next to it.

"the soldier," for being the only inspiring protest song of the decade

this got such a strange vote distribution

well 4WW is a real creeper album...Rev said something about taking three months to get into, I think it took me even longer to REALLY get the second half...I mean I voted The Healer kind of automatically, and I would prolley still today, bcz I think it's one of the best songs of the decade, but it would be a lot harder now to not vote The Cell or Twinkle or Master Teachers (no votes?! wtf!) or even That Hump...

yeah and "honey" with no votes??? "my people"???