Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

"I don't consider myself the Queen of Neo-Soul. I don't even know what neo-soul is. I'll be the Queen of Neo-Funk, though."

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http://www.rap-up.com/2010/04/01/mother-claims-child-was-traumatized-by-erykah-badu-video/

Flash forward 40 years: Woman, once a child, grateful to be able to tell her grandchildren about seeing Erykah Badu naked

lord knows I would be

so last night it was warm out and i was driving around, and i started with 'love' and 'fall in love' and was truly feelin' it. i like the odd phrase length in 'fall in love', it's a nice spin on the sample.

I used to wear old hose as detachable sleeves and pretend I was Ruth Pointer.

uh wait are you gay

Can I just Erykah Badu POX

xpost I thought Ruth Pointer was a really beautiful man.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-beat/Badu-May-Face-Charges-After-All-89799852.html

this whole situation has made me realize that badu is a lot more popular than I thought at this point lol

i mean, bill o'reilly was talking about it the other day

haha seriously - hope nothing happens to her tho :(

He no doubt mentioned her cuz she was a black woman in trouble.

I like the weird voting thing to the side of the story.

I think this is the girl who tattled: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000296696623

/creepy

"it was a publicity stunt, although a well timed one because of the album's release"

well it is a video for the album u idiot

the last quarter i think of this album is my jams

i don't know that i've ever heard another piece of music so entirely geared towards evoking pleasure as this album.

oh come on. I wouldn't even say that about any of her albums. 2 many srs moments.

but it's all so tasty and lush

maybe i should've said geared towards pleasuring me. i love how, even though she's obviously pared down the weirdo shit, the warbly bloops and bleeps and barely audible samples are still there, just buried a little deeper.

lol @ the biggie "burler alarm starts ringing" quoting
lol @ the Enemy Mine sample

this album is just about nothing but great "deep cuts"

also lol @ "chopped and screwed for you"

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film)

Erykah Badu is depicted as one of the movies characters on her album cover "New Amerykah, Part 2: Return of the Anhk"

is this wiki-vandalism or am i missing something..

well this one makes more sense

http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/80469430.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1270688323&Signature=YFh9tkvDquRU3g4Sgmc3G9XwG3w%3D

and nsfw: http://kaseydriscoll.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/a-holy-mountain-pdvd_000.jpg

this record is so much more inviting than pt 1. i've been listening to it daily.

this album is a little boring tbh :(

i want to believe

it got less boring for me

whenever someone says something is boring, i read it as "i have ADD"

well

dude did review 1000+ albums last year

btw after reading that studio article that mentioned how records vocals in the control room w/out headphones, i realized you can hear it really obviously at the end of 'the cell'

holy mountain so rad

it got less boring for me

― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, April 12, 2010 1:25 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

definitely it gets less boring

i dunno, the album is great of course but there are 3-4 tracks that I skip ("get munny," "fall in love (your funeral)" "incense," and sometimes "umm hmmm"), which seems like a lot... "get munny" and "fall in love (your funeral)" seem kind of pointless to me

get munny is top 3 for me easy

maybe because I love the OG sylvia striplin song, so hearing badu's version is like "um...ok?" total filler, and not even in a good way like "my people" off of 4WW

get munny is sesame street funk at its finest imo

haha otm

yeah i'm the same way as Brainwasher w/ those 2 songs, the overly familiar samples make 'em feel like filler that just comes and goes imo

also feel a lot less jazzed about "Agitation" after learning it's another beatjack, rockism or whatever be damned

get munny is one of those tracks it'd be cool to hear her bust out unexpectedly at a show, but on an album, yeah, it seems pointless. the striplin version is better.

i didn't realize how much of a beatjack get munny is! at least they replayed it.

'agitation' doesn't bother me, since her vocal melodies for it are totally new.

"agitation" is a sample? damn that is kind of disappointing... I dunno, when it comes to artists like Badu and the whole soulquarian movement I feel a certain type of way when I hear about their use of samples. Like, when I found out about all of the samples/interpolations on Voodoo... it's probably because they present themselves as "bringing back that real authentic musicianship" or what have you..

"agitation" is the shit tho, should be longer

i dunno, the album is great of course but there are 3-4 tracks that I skip

An album is not "great" if you skip three or four tracks, or maybe your scale is different than mine.

especially when the album's twelve cuts long.

well, I think the other tracks make up for the ones that I skip... "out my mind, just in time" may be my favorite badu song ever.

What about when a two-volume album with 23 cuts has only four or five skips? That's Key of Life territory there.