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"....)
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 29 March 2010 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i agree, altho i still like healer more than 'master teachers'
― deej khalifa (deej), Monday, 29 March 2010 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
most of the talk about it is here Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D
― Aerosol, Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ty ty ty
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"That Hump"
― Put A Ring On It (The Brainwasher), Friday, October 24, 2008 10:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
otm
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 September 2010 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha its 5am and That Hump is hitting hard (tho less hard now that I just finished giggling at the ship/sarge scooby exchange)
― Blah Sabbath (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 8 January 2012 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZLKkkOoszAA
― guapele (The Reverend), Sunday, 8 January 2012 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLKkkOoszAA
― guapele (The Reverend), Sunday, 8 January 2012 11:02 (twelve years ago) link
Did we ever poll the second? We should. (Or both together, even.)
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 February 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Friday, 16 November 2012 08:58 (eleven years ago) link
*still learning things about this album*
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Friday, 16 November 2012 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
This is still my favorite album of my lifetime, bout to put it on for the third time in a row.
― thraeds of life (The Reverend), Friday, 16 November 2012 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
She's playing NYE in Oakland with The Coup I believe.
― Everybody did shit, art happened! (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 November 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
rev otm
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 16 November 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
That Hump
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 May 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
second verse is the best vocal performance of her career imo
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 May 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
Only smoked a joint or two betwixt me and you.
― Not Simone Choule (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 May 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
that hump makes me sob tbh
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
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 wayof liiiiivingcheck tooo checkjust tryin to pay my rent and i can feel itcoming down around me and this children;_;
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
can i just posit the brother on her floor as the punctum here
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
my brother's sleeping on my floora bitch could use a little moooooore
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― J0rdan S., Friday, 6 March 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
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.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 March 2015 03:18 (nine years ago) link
This was polled way too early.
Master Teacher has always been my favourite.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 6 March 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
i'd've voted soldier. this is the album that keeps on giving
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Friday, 6 March 2015 04:30 (nine years ago) link
I can't even with these two albums. Parts 1 and 2 are collectively our Songs in the Key of Life.
― Eric H., Friday, 6 March 2015 06:29 (nine years ago) link
Every song on this album is great, I've been feeling That Hump lately (no pun intended)
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Friday, 6 March 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
That Hump is the best
― the saer returns (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 March 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
"me" is my jam, love that tune so much
― marcos, Friday, 6 March 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
"The Cell" is mine.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 March 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
I had no idea until Al's rundown that Master Teacher had spawned a popular hashtag
― the saer returns (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 March 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
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)
― Eric H., Friday, 6 March 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link
― the saer returns (Drugs A. Money), Friday, March 6, 2015 7:36 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
stay woke, dawg
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Friday, 6 March 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
for the "That Hump" fans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMpSpWeYRPA
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Friday, 6 March 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
Thank you, Paul McCartney for writing "Arrow Through Me" so Badu could pilfer it.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 March 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
xp Lol I always thought that that "day and night, night and day..." part in That Hump was a callback to Didnt Cha Know
― the war on me (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 March 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
No votes for honey is insane, song's pure joy
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 3 March 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
What a perfect album this is. Can't believe it has already been 10 years!
― kitchen person, Saturday, 3 March 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
damn I just realized "Twinkle" uses the drum pattern from "Sucker MCs"
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Friday, 26 October 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
this album is thirteen years old (!)
HOW DOES IT STILL SOUND SO CONTEMPORARY???
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 10 July 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
She should make another album
― burnt hombre (stevie), Sunday, 11 July 2021 11:09 (two years ago) link
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.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Sunday, 11 July 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
― marcos, Friday, March 6, 2015 9:23 AM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is what i wdve voted for
― class project pat (m bison), Sunday, 11 July 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
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
― burnt hombre (stevie), Sunday, 11 July 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
you speak truth, stevie. good man.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Sunday, 11 July 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
+1 for "Me"
― J. Sam, Sunday, 11 July 2021 19:19 (two years ago) link