Here's the woman that takes the funk, the soul and much more and mashes it into what I suppose is the future of soul/funk and much more.

I love this album. Amerykahn Promise is SO funky. It is PURE, spelt with the P of P-funk.





This is in my top 5 of this year. Probably number two, just behind the new Grace Jones.

It's got all the adventurous sounds and compositions that most soul/funk/rap/urban/whatever artists miss. She crosses so many borders, she is a style on herself.

Me love Badu.

me too!

You just getting this now Huey?! It's all good, this is one of if not my favorite CD that's come out this year. Erykah went above and beyond the call of duty on this CD.

purplecam said:

Nono. Had it since it came out, but sometimes it is just nice to jump right back and pay tribute to something that has given you so much joy.

I was totally digging this album when it came out, listened to it a lot.....but then I was a bit fed up with it, which is always the case with me & Badu.


Wasn't Part Two to be released this summer???? Or will we have to wait a couple of years again??


I love 'The Healer'!

She rocked the house in Chicago.

Great show!

LOVE Badu.....GREAT live act, but thumbs down on this new one.

I got it and listened to it, and listened, and listened...

I'm still trying to get it...

All songs sounds the same song...

Can you give me a clue????

Part 2 Nov 19!

mikesdyke said:

source?

rushing07 said:

yup!

Cinnie said:

you can ask her on OKP

At this stage only Japan and Australia have released dates.

http://www.hmv.co.jp/prod...il/2786736


http://auspop.blogspot.co...le_16.html

Target has a listing for US release in November.

The three albums in one year...the USB stick...lord. At least she finally delivered a new lp and toured. Part 2 - can take its time. I want it to be the flip side to Part 1. Part 1 is abrasive, uneven, messy, textured, trippy, funky sketches of works in progess...

As Honey showed us, the vibe for part 2 will be more polished, soulful, and understated. I think the two need to be put together for each individual part to make sense.

tritoncin said:

I don't get the 'same song'-thing, so it's hard to explain why I love it so much. It's a vibe, I suppose. I loves it cuz it is layered. There's alot going on, both lyrically, vocally and musically.

The sound is warm throughout, maybe you do not like the production.

I love it when she goes a bit weird, with high speed voices or weird instrumentation, as on The Healer.

But in all, there is no voice like Badu's; she uses her voice like an instrument and I adore that voice to bits. It's even more beautiful when she uses her voice to sing lyrics that make sense, that give guidance in a turbulent world. She's on her way to becoming a wise woman. I like that.

HamsterHuey said:

I tend to disagree, she's on her way to become weirder & weirder.....Like I said before, I love 'The Healer' for all it's weirdness, I think it's the best track of the record. Why? Because it's the only track that totally stands out from the rest!
I will keep following her, but secretly I wish she'd go back and make an album like 'Mama's Gun'.....just love the vibe on that album.

Oh.....and really, her lyrics are sometimes completely over the top on this album!

abierman said:

I've noticed. It's The Way Of The Beast, I suppose.

HamsterHuey said:

Get over yourself, I'm just contributing to your thread on a topic that's like only 6 months behind.....

abierman said:

Heehee. There were enough threads back then. But this is still one of my favest albums of the year. Together with the new Grace Jones.

HamsterHuey said:

I think I like Grace Jones' better.....I'm really pleasantly surprised by that one!

I´m a huge Badu fan, have seen her in concert, bought all her CDs, been into her music eversince her first album came out. However, it took me a really long time to dig this album and its dark and sketchy atmosphere. The lyrics, the booklet, the whole package is very weird and uneven but in the end, I´m still happy that she released this one as is.
I can´t wait for part 2 to come out and hope it will be different, like a flipside to this one. If Honey is an indicator for that new album´s sound, I´m a happy man.

I have three of her albums. this, Baduizm and Worldwide Underground. I'm still not sure about her, there is some genius to her but something bugs me about Erykah and i'm not sure what.

But i have 3 of her albums. so can't say i haven't tried!

BTW. 'Soldier' is the awesomeness!

HamsterHuey said:

I'm with you on that one 100%. It's a great album to come back to.

HamsterHuey said:

Im still flabbergasted by this album. The Cell, Master Teacher, let me preach about some "That Hump", Amerykan Promise, Me...this album slams all the new soul cats out there right now...much much more adventerous and takes the listener on a new robotic funk that has never really been explored before...Meshell comes close, but she never goes too far in the funk like this.

abierman said:

She is going in a Bjork type hip / funk style that I have never heard b4. Im glad she is going there.

paisleypark4 said:

I love this album, I think Badu is the cat's meow and I don't get people who don't get the album. The lyrics are there, I don't see how you can't get it unless you are completely oblivious to what is going on in the world.The only album I bothered to purchase this year.