Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

sweet thanks for the heads up!

wowowowowowow

haha love how casually this is slipped in at the end -

Badu finished by stating that the third album in the New Amerykah series would be titled Lowdown, Low Underground and would be sung in the persona of her alias Loretta Brown, a woman that’s “from the ’50s but acts like she’s from the ’40s - the 2040’s.”

janelle monáe i love you but you better get your album out quick smart if you don't want ms badu to render it completely irrelevant.

omgomgomg cannot wait!!!

The track ends with children screaming.

okay best album of 2010, I'm calling it right now

woohoooo

dayammmmm

it's gonna badu vs. maxwell for best 2010 r&b sequel

i want this now

so excited you guys!

I have no words to describe my excitement.

okay reading more of this, I really really REALLY wish people would learn and understand the difference between "atonal", "distorted" and "dissonant"

yessssssssssssss. pumped.

Not much to add here. 2010 is gonna be a strong year for music. But I feel like I've been saying this every year for the past few years.

Color me thrilled.

I have no words to describe my excitement.

― really senile old crap shit (Eric H.), Friday, December 11, 2009 11:52 AM (3 hours ago)

^this, except that i'm infuriated that i can't listen to the preview where i am right now, gonna have to wait til late tonight

oh it's just a track-by-track? progress i suppose, but we've been trolled too many times by release announcements that never happened :(

think you can hear a cellphone recording of jump in the air & stay there some places, but it's just reading for now.

I can confirm that at least one ILXOR has heard this.

and what did Geir have to say

http://www.legalmoviesdownloads.com/still-frames-movie-pictures/amadeus/amadeus-2-jeffrey-jones-tom-hulce-roderick-cook-emperor-joseph-ii-wolfgang-amadeus-mozart-count-von-strack-.jpg

Emperor Hongro dispenses his thoughts.

who rev?

I believe Hongro's doing a write-up somewhere, so I'll leave that up to him.

I heard it Wed night. It's GREAT.

More info, plz! How well does it complement the first volume?

another article:
http://www.billboard.com/news/erykah-badu-unveils-new-amerykah-part-ii-1004053193.story#/news/erykah-badu-unveils-new-amerykah-part-ii-1004053193.story

kev: matos

It's less wild-ass than the first one; it ranges pretty widely while staying pretty resolutely R&B. Kind of Mama's Gun refracted through Pt. 1. Lots of piano and bass, a good amount of studio treatment but super approachable--the old fans who lost her w/Pt. 1 will like this a lot, I think. Last few songs get really torchy. A lyric that stood out: "I'm on my front porch rockin'/Like Lightnin' Hopkins." I think the above-linked preview says it well.

im now imagining a load of odd similies and hip hop quotes on this album.

(that hopkins one is a bit crap, though im sure it sounds good)

the old fans who lost her w/Pt. 1 will like this a lot, I think

Not gonna lie. This tempered my enthusiasm just a teeny tiny bit since I think Pt. 1 is her best album yet. But since Mama's Gun is right up there as runner-up, I guess this sounds awesome.

well I think this was always planned as the most accessible album in the series (like, "Honey" was supposed to be on this album, which is why it was only a bonus track when it was bumped to the first album)

an album of "honey"s would be the best thing ever probably

crazy about the wayne track maybe being dropped because of the leak. THANKS INTERNET.

so what's this about a "track from the album featuring lil wayne"? the writer doesnt mention wayne at all

The audio clip didn't sound promising, but I suppose it could just be the shitty cell phone quality.

crazy about the wayne track maybe being dropped because of the leak. THANKS INTERNET.

― high-five machine (schlump), Saturday, December 12, 2009 10:45 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think you mean thanks wayne's lax studio security that lets everything he makes get leaked

yeah i'd like wayne as far away from this as possible tbh, i can't even think of a rapper i'd like on a badu record in 2009

it seems like kind of a perfunctory collab like all wayne collabs are these days, but a year or two back he was mentioning Badu as an influence in a lot of interviews, namedropping her in "A Milli," etc., so I wanna give them the benefit of the doubt.

apparently jump in the air features ten mcs. i don't know what this means.

probably just that, like many R&B albums these days, there will be a remix version of the lead single with a bunch of rappers on it

It's not slated for the album.

ghostface would be fine on an erykah album

Others have expressed their pumpitude for this album. I would like to say that I too am pumped, and that New Amerykah Part One somehow turned out to be my favorite 2008 record. Time is magic, etc.

i like to imagine that the reason this took so long to come out is because badu had to keep sending wayne's verses back to be tweaked, each time saying "this is good, but less feces references, please"

or, you know, cause she took some time off to have a babby

^no imagination

"If anything leaks, I won't put out this album," she said about potential future leaks. "I worked too hard for that to happen. Let a bitch make some money some kind of way."

^^^^ this is awesome but also terrifying

mostly terrifying imo

ghostface would be fine on an erykah album

― that is a whole discussion within itself that is worth debating (forksclovetofu), Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ugh