Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

UM YOU GUYS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fld7YmVpymY&feature=player_embedded

is that ass real

things i do not expect to see in erykah badu video
#1: "Inspired by Matt and Kim"
#2: TITTAYS

(B I gotta say she gotta BANGIN body)

i spelled booty wrong btw

O__________O

btw yall are forgetting

http://www.youtube.com/v/OvwuVdffvO0

NEVER FORGET

i'll be forever in love with this lady, to me she can do no wrong.
of course this is the dope shit!

What is up with the Rick James/ Patrice Rushen/ Peaches & Herb beads she's been rocking lately lol

video is slightly corny, but it's earned since there are very few albums less revealing than Mama's Gun...what word does the purple blood spell out?

I'm definitely thinking now that Badu is a high priestess of Funk. (Here is a handy link to a thread where Mark Sinker explains how George Clinton used The Process Church of the Final Judgement as a sort of template to turn Funk into an alternative system of faith and beliefs.)

*there should actually be the word 'possible' in front of the word 'alternative'...nothing was ever actually set in stone...

what word does the purple blood spell out?

GAPDY

that's what I thought!

ditto!

lmao @ assassinated nudist

actually it's GROUPTHINK. also how is Mama's Gun not revealing, esp "Green Eyes" and "And On".

god I love mark sinker.

less = more, my bad

get munny is da jam all over again

sounds like a jax 5 joint imo

sounds like the song its obv interpolating imo

right, hence "all over again"

yes im responding to k3v

no shit deej, hers is a completely different tone of voice tho

i hate not having liner notes. anyone know who plays drums on agitation? or is it sampled from the original track?

and the rest of the record (window seat aside) for that matter

karriem?

Agitation is the original track replayed and maybe sweetened a little bit, but I'm pretty sure the drums were left alone.

Window Seat: ?uestlove
Get MuNNY: Riggens

I love having liner notes because I bought the CD. $9.98 at Target, what what.

Me too. I will never not buy a physical copy of a new album by Erykah Badu.

she was kinda distracted and terrible looking on 106

She discusses not always looking so awesome IN THE LINER NOTES. I am not kidding.

She sort of calls herself ugly in the liner notes.

don't get me wrong I think she looks amazing most of the time, but wtf kind of stoner magician look is this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1heejCbk0

Fall In Love (Your Funeral) is such the jam, must've played it 5-6 times at work today--sort of the successor/sequel to "Soldier" from the last one (another Riggins/Badu collab):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7mhDSIM73k

That one and the Madlib track are the two I'm not quite feeling yet.

had no idea there was ~controversy~ over the "window seat" video http://is.gd/b7Syb

In Dallas, some were upset at the video's use of the iconic Kennedy setting. Ron Rice, who gives "JFK walking tours" in Dealey Plaza, told the Dallas Morning News that he thought Badu's actions were irresponsible. "It's against the law, and she should be locked up," he said. "If I did that I would already be in jail."

haha yes, let's IMPRISON a woman for being naked. "locked up" lol

i find the idea of his death tourist business a lot more distasteful. ts nudity vs gawking and cameras at an assassination location

Ugh, just saw the anchors of the CBS Early Show talking about this. They sounded like Fox pundits.

wtf @ this being a national - or indeed international - news story

i didn't think it was even that insane a video - i kinda roll my eyes at the idea of conveying a high-minded message via the medium of gettin' naked in a pop video - but given this shit, maybe she had a point. (also, totally didn't clock the location when i watched it.)

Lots of people (in the US, at least) get worked up about public breastfeeding, so of course THIS is a BIG DEAL.

It was "covered" by my LOCAL (Detroit) news, ffs.

I definitely thought "is that the book depository" when the camera panned over it.

i find the idea of his death tourist business a lot more distasteful.

^

as someone who goes thru WTC at least twice a week, you eventually learn to block it out.

it was an attention whore video, guys, she got what she wanted.

dope album, though.

okay I am 2 minutes into this album and it is amazing

video is kinda trite but cute; fine by me. beyond the highbrow framing i still find it quite affecting wrt the song itself, specifically the "need you to want me/ need some attention" aspect, but then i suppose maybe i just favour triteness that's of my own making.

great, great album anyway - haven't had the strongest badu affinity to date but this is already my favourite of hers. at first i guess i was feeling like she mightve half-assed it a little but the final track casts such a profound shadow back over the rest of it all somehow, it's pretty amazing.

After a few listens, I'm convinced it's weaker song-for-song than New Amerykah; occasionally the production and arrangements are monotonous. But the good songs reflect the advances of 4th World War.