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Post by romanticfantastic on Feb 1, 2008 23:28:44 GMT -5
Grammy Award winning R&B and Soul artist Erykah Badu is BACK! Following a 5 year hiatus, Erykah is set to release her upcoming LP, "New Amerykah" with the 9th Wonder produced "Honey" being the lead single. "New Amerykah" is to be released February 26, 2008 in the US. Album Cover: Erykah will be serving it big with her New Soul R&B style and Honey is sooo hot! Can't wait for this one!
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Post by Just No on Feb 2, 2008 0:05:10 GMT -5
Honey is a trainwreck now. She hasnt brought it since "Tyrone".
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Post by romanticfantastic on Feb 2, 2008 0:47:20 GMT -5
Honey is a trainwreck now. She hasnt brought it since "Tyrone". imo Erykah's been bringing it since On & On. lol I think Honey is one of her more radio friendly singles though but I still feel the soul.
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Post by mrpink on Feb 2, 2008 17:53:55 GMT -5
So happy!!
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Post by romanticfantastic on Feb 3, 2008 0:57:17 GMT -5
Erykah's album cover is really FIRE! It's so cool and it immediately grabs attention.
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Post by **Becky**™ on Feb 3, 2008 0:58:36 GMT -5
i love honey and the video is great too.
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Post by Late Winter on Feb 3, 2008 4:02:40 GMT -5
;D @ that album cover
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Post by romanticfantastic on Feb 22, 2008 11:30:10 GMT -5
The album leaked. Erykah is back!
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Post by Late Winter on Feb 22, 2008 11:32:45 GMT -5
Oh dear
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Post by romanticfantastic on Feb 22, 2008 12:46:41 GMT -5
Oh dear "Oh dear" is when Mariah came back with that generic, seemingly 5th single material.
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Post by Late Winter on Feb 22, 2008 13:15:45 GMT -5
Oh dear "Oh dear" is when Mariah came back with that generic, seemingly 5th single material. Are we talking about the same generic, seemingly 5th single material that you've been playing a lot?
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Post by romanticfantastic on Feb 24, 2008 0:57:23 GMT -5
Great reviews so far! And I am completely in congruity with all of them!
Billboard:
ARTIST: ERYKAH BADU
ALBUM: NEW AMERYKAH: 4TH WORLD WAR (Universal Motown)
After a healthy hiatus, R&B mistress Erykah Badu has returned with "4th World War," the first of a planned three installments under the moniker "New Amerykah." First single "Honey" stands out with a funky, 1970s hippie vibe. From the album's introduction, where a woman speaks to a doctor about getting a second head, it's clear Badu's on another plane. Songs like "The Healer," produced by Madlib, feature thick bass, triangles, finger cymbals, what sounds like gears shifting and an echoing choir. "The Cell" sports a digital sound that rides an offbeat and clapping rhythm section. "Soldier" has Badu describing a "mama hopped up on cocaine" over rumbling drums. Curtis Mayfield would be proud of the lyrics and her throwback sound.
ALL MUSIC GUIDE:
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
by Andy Kellman
Downplayed and practically disregarded as it was, 2003’s Worldwide Underground was an excellent and brave follow-up to 2000’s Mama’s Gun. Erykah Badu concedes she had nothing to say at the time — the loose 50-minute “EP” was more about sounds than statements — but she evidently holds herself to a high standard. Perhaps that streak was a factor in her protracted silence from its release to New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War; she even thought she might be through with making music. Her creative energy returned at some point, and then some, with this set apparently just the first in a series of releases.
Varied and layered, New Amerykah, Pt. 1 has Badu collaborating principally with the members of Sa-Ra (who are present in almost half of the tracks), Madlib, 9th Wonder, and Baduizm/Mama’s Gun vets Karriem Riggins, James Poyser, and Ahmir Thompson. If you’re familiar with what these people have made in the past, you’ll know to expect plenty of fearless weirdness and a couple relaxed soul-jazz backdrops that do not fail to stimulate. The album is easily the most hip-hop and most out-there release from Badu thus far, with beats bumping, knocking, and booming in roughly equal measure, sometimes switching tacks or vanishing midstream, dropping down dark corridors, gradually levitating into direct sunlight.
Lyrically, there’s much to digest. In the ghostly-mystical “The Healer,” Badu proclaims hip-hop to be bigger than religion and government. Both “That Hump” and “The Cell” are vivid depictions of drug dependency. “Soldier” gives a shout to the Nation of Islam, addresses Katrina and black-on-black crime, sends out a warning (”Now to folks that think they livin’ sweet/They gon’ f**k around and push ‘delete’”). “Twinkle” evokes a lot of thought with few words, alluding to the various failures of the U.S. health, education, and prison systems, and the negative and cyclical effects they’ve had on Badu’s people.
Though this is another album where you can only wonder how different it would be with some input from the late J Dilla, the beloved producer gets an incredibly touching tribute with the floating eight-minute “Telephone,” written the day after the ceremony of his death. Indeed, no listed song is light in sentiment, which must partially explain why the beaming single “Honey” is included as an unlisted track — it doesn’t fit into the album’s fabric, what with its drifting, deeply sweetened, synth-squish-and-string-drift groove. Immediately moving and yet rather bewildering, New Amerykah, Pt. 1 is an album that sounds special from the first play, yet it will probably take years before it is known just how special it is.
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Post by mrpink on Feb 26, 2008 14:17:18 GMT -5
*goes to download*
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