We should've just made this the Sa-Ra thread and disposed of all this...
― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link
i read about sa-ra and get super ridic excited
i listen to sa-ra and am like 'why was i so excited'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
you haven't heard the right things
― jaxon, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
what should i hear?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
New York City and Beautiful Thangs are astounding.
My point, however, was they either as a unit, or as individuals, have done a fair amount of work for Badu in recent times, no?
― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, these two at least.
That Hump is produced by Om'Mas Keith and basically sounds like a Sa-Ra track:
Master Teacher is produced by Shafiq Husayn and Georgia Anne Muldrow of Sa-Ra:
― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Erykah Badu on Sa-Ra
― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
yall have no idea how much this record speaks to me... I might even say it feels like its ABOUT me
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 10:53 (fifteen years ago) link
im sober btw
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I feel like, amazing new developments aside, this record perfectly encaptures how it feels to be black in america in 2008
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
and I got "My President" to hold down the other side of that, so I'm good
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
'Me' is definitely about me
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 13 November 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
This is the definitive album of my young adulthood.Suggest Ban Permalink― The Reverend, Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:04 AM Bookmark
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^^^I stand by this
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
It's certainly the best album of a great year, no doubt.
― Peanuts are the perpetual movement at man's reach (stevie), Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
The album it reminds me most of is Curtis. While the makers of both records are quick to detail our social ills, neither sounds, for even a second, like they don't believe we can overcome them.
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
ok that was a much more interesting comparison when I thought you were talking about Fiddy.
― The stic.man from the hilarious 'Dead Prez' albums (some dude), Thursday, 13 November 2008 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha I never got around to checking that one out
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm surprised that for all the love badu gets here, i can't find a thread on joi
― L@OO@K WHOS AWAKE NOW (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I had a bit of a slow uptake, too, but at this point I can't identify an album released this decade that means as much to me. I just posted this in the other thread last night.
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Another thing is, despite all the social commentary, it's never didactic (not that there's anything wrong with that, I mean Public Enemy were didactic), the whole thing feels so personal at every level.
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
damn, wrong thread
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah -- she can't be didactic because she's still sorting out politics and her own artistic growth (which is what the album chronicles). The record's more mixed up in a thrilling way than anything I've heard in recent memory.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 13 November 2008 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i can imagine someone maybe not being totally taken by the album, because they're not into her particular methods of expression or her take on soul just isn't their thing, but even in that case, surely the sheer depth and breadth of what she's trying to do (and succeeding at) would be impressive? the scope of this thing is immense.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 13 November 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
alfred otm
― slap bass: the ungentle art (stevie), Thursday, 13 November 2008 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
so 4th World War is a lock for #1 in the upcoming 2008 albums poll, right????
Madvillainy is my album of the decade, and this is second...I like the former a little more, but this last month has done a lot to close the gap between the two...I just recently how astoninshing that three-song sequence (Soldier-The Cell-Twinkle) really is, and then The Healer is even better....
― 37 x 18 = (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 9 February 2009 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I just recently how astoninshing that three-song sequence (Soldier-The Cell-Twinkle) really is, and then The Healer is even better....
yeah i think i really started to feel this album hardcore when that run you're referring to hit me for the first time. then, of course, i fell in love with every other song too
― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Monday, 9 February 2009 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I know that tardiness is all part of the Badu mystique, but damn I wish she'd stop even pretending with these release dates. It should just show up in stores one day.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Monday, 9 February 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
her twitter feed is as entertaining as you might imagine, i highly recommend it.
― a small batch bourbon of web board shitfits (stevie), Monday, 9 February 2009 08:06 (fifteen years ago) link
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Sunday, February 8, 2009 11:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
this is like 90% of the hip-hop/r&b industry fwiw
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Monday, 9 February 2009 08:08 (fifteen years ago) link
that new album isnt coming out for a long while. shes just had a baby.
― p-noid (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 9 February 2009 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I love her Twitter feed. It's reorganizing my understanding of communication.
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Monday, 9 February 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
she's playing some festival in a few months. just saying, it might not be the whole year or whatever that people expect.
― schlump, Monday, 9 February 2009 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.houstonpress.com/2009-03-05/music/r-amp-b-queen-erykah-badu-s-egyptian-mystique/
― Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 March 2009 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
YAMASUKI SINGERS SAMPLE!!!!
― moullet, Thursday, 5 March 2009 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
guess i'm gonna see erykah at jazzfest this year, should be fun.
― meat of beef (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
fatbellybella sylvia called yesterday... gave me an album release date. i always cringe at the thought.about 4 hours ago from web
fatbellybella ... i love pt 2 . feels good . but not sure its what i want to say right now .about 4 hours ago from web
guess we won't be seeing pt 2 any time soon
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
;_____;
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
kudos to matt c for getting an erykah retweet though
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd rather she got off the Tweet and back on the spliff.
― neu hollywood (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i heard pt 2 was december. but getting a release date might be more like july/august?
also this thread/board way undervalues WORLDWIDE UNDERGROUND, particularly as a stepping stone between mama's gun and the last one.
― corps of discovery (schlump), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
eh. WWU isn't that bearable as a whole, but I gotta make caveat that "I Want You" just might be the best jam she's done
― Styles Davis (The Reverend), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yea i don't remember liking WWU that much. i worked in a record store in college and a co-worker played it all the time. part of the reason why i barely noticed when NA pt 1 came out and didn't get around to hearing it until a couple months ago. but i should give it another listen
― mark cl, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Everything up through "I Want You" is great.
― neu hollywood (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
'danger' is def one of my favourite erykah trax ever. and yeah 'i want you' is great too.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 6 May 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i've been on a WWU kick lately, i love it
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
my post was meant to liberate you all from your hazy recollection that it isn't that good: it turns out that it is instead pretty good. i want you's something else completely.
― corps of discovery (schlump), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
she sounded good at jazzfest btw, band is tight. she had them breaking every four bars more or less.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
is it her and the laptop guys?
― corps of discovery (schlump), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
no, full band, chris dave on drums.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 May 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
playing a bunch of shows in august
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 18:18 (fourteen years ago) link
link?
― nadroj thing (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link