NEW AMERYKAH, POLL 1 (4th World War)

'that hump' was my vote i think -- the chorus is just great

yeah I mustn't have voted in this cuz "that hump" has been my fave on this from the beginning. that bassline is crazy, the vocals, the lyrics... it's one of my top 5 badu songs easily. I never really got the crazy love for "the healer," i don't really understand why it won this poll by such a large margin, it's one of the lesser tracks on the album imo (though the album is pretty much perfect... but still, "that hump," "twinkle," "the cell," "soldier," "telephone," "me," >>>>>>>>>>>> "the healer"....)

i agree, altho i still like healer more than 'master teachers'

Is there a thread for the second one? I cannot find it if there is. Anyway this is a totally perfect happy summer album, totes didn't expect it to sound this blissed out.

most of the talk about it is here Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

ty ty ty

"That Hump"

― Put A Ring On It (The Brainwasher), Friday, October 24, 2008 10:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

otm

Ha its 5am and That Hump is hitting hard (tho less hard now that I just finished giggling at the ship/sarge scooby exchange)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZLKkkOoszAA

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

Did we ever poll the second? We should. (Or both together, even.)

And there are so many easter eggs, lyrically and sonically! I always discover something new when I listen to it. It's a complex motherfucking work. Just about a week ago, I first noticed that "My People" ends with the words "Good morning. Did you have a Dream?" And I capitilize Dream intentionally, because whether she was referring to the American (Amerykahn?) Dream or, I think more likely, MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, she intends to load the word with more meaning than its M-W definition would indicate.

― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah absolutely - i get annoyed when people overuse adjectives like "meaningful" but it absolutely applies to new amerykah in the sense that every word, note, inflection, every last detail in the arrangement is there for a reason, and even the most minute element of it can spark off these chains of thought just like yours

― lex pretend, Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, even things in the sequencing. It's no accident that "Me" is followed by "My People". She's already claimed her people as her in the former song. "I salute you [insert your name here] because you are me". It's also no mistake that she goes from grown folks acting all niggerish and not taking responsibility for their kids in "The Cell" to lamenting how those same kids "don't know their language...don't know their god" in "Twinkle" to the epiphany of "wait....what if there were no niggers, only master teachers?"

― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, November 13, 2008 3:23 PM Bookmark

Wait, but that's the Dream she has! You even have Curtis Mayfield playing herald for her with the sample of him at the beginning of "Master Teacher" repeating "dreams..." over and over.

*still learning things about this album*

This is still my favorite album of my lifetime, bout to put it on for the third time in a row.

She's playing NYE in Oakland with The Coup I believe.

rev otm

That Hump

second verse is the best vocal performance of her career imo

Only smoked a joint or two betwixt me and you.

that hump makes me sob tbh

always feel like whiney is going to pop up and take me to task for ^ that sentiment, but it's true

i just got to find a way
of liiiiiving
check tooo check
just tryin to pay my rent and i can feel it
coming down around me and this children
;_;

can i just posit the brother on her floor as the punctum here

my brother's sleeping on my floor
a bitch could use a little moooooore

otm

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That Hump 1

recount

Thanks to some dude, I've relistened to her catalog in the last three days and am gone baby gone all over again.

This was polled way too early.

Master Teacher has always been my favourite.

i'd've voted soldier. this is the album that keeps on giving

I can't even with these two albums. Parts 1 and 2 are collectively our Songs in the Key of Life.

Every song on this album is great, I've been feeling That Hump lately (no pun intended)

That Hump is the best

"me" is my jam, love that tune so much

"The Cell" is mine.

I had no idea until Al's rundown that Master Teacher had spawned a popular hashtag

Did we ever poll the second? We should. (Or both together, even.)
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, February 17, 2012 4:08 PM (3 years ago)

Nu AmErykah, Poll 1 + 2 (4th World War + Return of the Ankh)

I had no idea until Al's rundown that Master Teacher had spawned a popular hashtag

― the saer returns (Drugs A. Money), Friday, March 6, 2015 7:36 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stay woke, dawg

for the "That Hump" fans

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

Thank you, Paul McCartney for writing "Arrow Through Me" so Badu could pilfer it.

xp Lol I always thought that that "day and night, night and day..." part in That Hump was a callback to Didnt Cha Know

No votes for honey is insane, song's pure joy

What a perfect album this is. Can't believe it has already been 10 years!

damn I just realized "Twinkle" uses the drum pattern from "Sucker MCs"

this album is thirteen years old (!)

HOW DOES IT STILL SOUND SO CONTEMPORARY???

She should make another album

fr.

and since we're on the subject of things that will never happen: the world needs that erykah / andre3000 duets album more than ever at this point.

"me" is my jam, love that tune so much

― marcos, Friday, March 6, 2015 9:23 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is what i wdve voted for

i don't think we'll ever hear the badu/andre3000 album but I think we could definitely hear a new album from her at some point

I still think her Tiny Desk show is one of the greatest things I've seen in years - the only real competition is other online shows she's done - and I do wish she'd press it up on vinyl and sell it me

you speak truth, stevie. good man.