Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

the old unplugged episode with the roots is so fucking good

wait maybe it wasn’t the roots. sorry, stoned

I saw her do a STELLAR show at the Brixtno Academy, super-intense version of Green Eyes, and she hits that penultimate long note at the end, and is just spent, and everything goes silent, and she's just stood there, in the moment, wrung out, feeling it, everyone in the room is feeling it, this moment of like, "Just feel the dust falling, the heaviness", absolute silence,

And then this incredibly drunken, off-key voice from the audience croons out, "Baaaa-aaaa-aaag laaaa-aaaa-aaaa-dy!", and she just dissolves into hysterics, and the whole room erupted into laughter, and it was just this wonderful thing where the tension had risen to dizzying levels, and this relief that followed it. It was one of my favourite concerts ever.

Oh man, I hope something similar happens at my concert in October!

I've seen her live two or three times. One was behind Mama's Gun and she killed it. Another time was ... I forget when, but all I remember is 15 minutes of her doing pilates.

She gave a basically straightforward concert in Minneapolis last night, but damn that's all I needed from her. Fantastic, fun and breezy ... AND she did "I Want You" interpolated with "Don't Stop the Music"!

I heard 'the healer' for the first time in years recently and reminded it was so ahead of if it's time, conceptually and sonically. This is a cool live version.dope!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuObEg9A2Ew

i might put the healer on a top 500 songs of all time list

sunday afternoons + slow jams 101. not really a song i've ever grown tired of. ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxITI3A2KWA

"next lifetime" (1997)

super sustained vibe on the long live version from the only official live album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05KLHZYOpg

probably one of the defining artists of my life. love her so much.

so good, playing it now - thanx for the reminder!

welp, guess it's afternoon somewhere. close enough.

it ain’t that type of party

or in other words: I can’t make sense of your last post.

sunday afternoons + slow jams 101.

― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Sunday, May 22, 2022 11:36 AM

time once again making fools of us all. wish it was the other way around. next lifetime, right?

seeing her again in August in Brooklyn, i think this is the fourth time? pretty excited.

Ms. Erykah Badu (a.k.a. @fatbellybella) is giving us a show at @RaviniaFestival tonight.

Here she is performing:

“Otherside of the Game”

🎥: @Waldens_Block // The TRiiBE pic.twitter.com/zF0rsQTvfT

— The TRiiBE (@TheTRiiBE) September 12, 2022

brooklyn set was, unsurprisingly noteworthy for her going on about two hours late and for it being fucking great

Wish she'd make another record soon, she's the very best

here's something i missed―
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1b4Spy9VRQ

rc + the gritz feat eb - "leave me alone" (2013)