Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

I heard it Wed night. It's GREAT.

More info, plz! How well does it complement the first volume?

another article:
http://www.billboard.com/news/erykah-badu-unveils-new-amerykah-part-ii-1004053193.story#/news/erykah-badu-unveils-new-amerykah-part-ii-1004053193.story

kev: matos

It's less wild-ass than the first one; it ranges pretty widely while staying pretty resolutely R&B. Kind of Mama's Gun refracted through Pt. 1. Lots of piano and bass, a good amount of studio treatment but super approachable--the old fans who lost her w/Pt. 1 will like this a lot, I think. Last few songs get really torchy. A lyric that stood out: "I'm on my front porch rockin'/Like Lightnin' Hopkins." I think the above-linked preview says it well.

im now imagining a load of odd similies and hip hop quotes on this album.

(that hopkins one is a bit crap, though im sure it sounds good)

the old fans who lost her w/Pt. 1 will like this a lot, I think

Not gonna lie. This tempered my enthusiasm just a teeny tiny bit since I think Pt. 1 is her best album yet. But since Mama's Gun is right up there as runner-up, I guess this sounds awesome.

well I think this was always planned as the most accessible album in the series (like, "Honey" was supposed to be on this album, which is why it was only a bonus track when it was bumped to the first album)

an album of "honey"s would be the best thing ever probably

crazy about the wayne track maybe being dropped because of the leak. THANKS INTERNET.

so what's this about a "track from the album featuring lil wayne"? the writer doesnt mention wayne at all

The audio clip didn't sound promising, but I suppose it could just be the shitty cell phone quality.

crazy about the wayne track maybe being dropped because of the leak. THANKS INTERNET.

― high-five machine (schlump), Saturday, December 12, 2009 10:45 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think you mean thanks wayne's lax studio security that lets everything he makes get leaked

yeah i'd like wayne as far away from this as possible tbh, i can't even think of a rapper i'd like on a badu record in 2009

it seems like kind of a perfunctory collab like all wayne collabs are these days, but a year or two back he was mentioning Badu as an influence in a lot of interviews, namedropping her in "A Milli," etc., so I wanna give them the benefit of the doubt.

apparently jump in the air features ten mcs. i don't know what this means.

probably just that, like many R&B albums these days, there will be a remix version of the lead single with a bunch of rappers on it

It's not slated for the album.

ghostface would be fine on an erykah album

Others have expressed their pumpitude for this album. I would like to say that I too am pumped, and that New Amerykah Part One somehow turned out to be my favorite 2008 record. Time is magic, etc.

i like to imagine that the reason this took so long to come out is because badu had to keep sending wayne's verses back to be tweaked, each time saying "this is good, but less feces references, please"

or, you know, cause she took some time off to have a babby

^no imagination

"If anything leaks, I won't put out this album," she said about potential future leaks. "I worked too hard for that to happen. Let a bitch make some money some kind of way."

^^^^ this is awesome but also terrifying

mostly terrifying imo

ghostface would be fine on an erykah album

― that is a whole discussion within itself that is worth debating (forksclovetofu), Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ugh

^^

it's spelled "wu"

fatbellybella 3 / 30 / 2010
15 minutes ago from Tweetie

Gahdamit.

Seriously? So we should expect this in December or something, I suppose.

always the optimist

it'll be a double disc with d'angelo.

new album out end of march. cant fucking wait.

I'll believe it when I have it in my hands.

01 20 Feet Tall [produced by Erykah Badu and 9th Wonder]
02 Window Seat [produced by Erykah Badu and James Poyser, featuring ?uestlove]
03 Agitation [produced by Erykah Badu and Shafiq Husayn of SA-RA Creative Partners]
04 Get Money [produced by Erykah Badu]
05 Don't Be Long [produced by Erykah Badu and Taarak]
06 Love [produced by Erykah Badu and J Dilla]
07 Umm Hmm [produced by Erykah Badu and Madlib]
08 Fall in Love [produced by Erykah Badu and Karriem Riggins]
09 Incense (Instrumental) [produced by Erykah Badu and Madlib]
10 Out My Mind Just in Time (Part 1) (Undercover Over-Lover) [produced by Erykah Badu]
11 Out My Mind Just in Time (Part 2) [produced by Erykah Badu and Georgia Anne Muldrow]
12 Jump in the Air [ft. Lil Wayne and Bilal] [produced by Erykah Badu, RC Williams and Jahborn] *

* web-only bonus track

Glad there's a wide range of producers here, a lot of whom obviously play to her strengths. Surprised there's nothing from Jay Electronica, though.

he was prob too busy looking after the baby.

Thought it was supposed to be 10 MC's on "Jump In The Air"?

Apparently following the listening session leak of the Wayne version, the original plan of 10 separate releases of Jump in the Air was scrapped in favour of one Wayne web only version. Shame.

wait so wayne is not going to be on the album? awesome!

haha otm

It was never earmarked for the album. She said at the listening party that it was planned as a leak--ten diff't versions w/ten MCs. So the web-only-bonus thing is basically in keeping w/that.

(And it would throw off the album totally if it were on it, officially. "Honey" works as a coda to Pt. 1 but this wouldn't for Pt. 2.)

At 3:33 pm Tomorrow . Friday . The official leak ... erykahbadu.com
about 8 hours ago from Tweetie

nuthin up yet.

I assume it's EST?

erykah standard time

Wiki now has track twelve listed as part three of "Out My Mind (Just in Time)", any truth to this?