Harlepolis said:

I'm sayin'!

I found this article recently..

It's kind of spoiler-ish. From what I gathered, it has the same feel as New Amerykah, but more personal instead of socio-political.

Return of the Ankh Review and Rundown

"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."
[Edited 12/15/09 15:23pm]

Tortilla said:

i'm all now

purplepolitician said:

Um, she better deliver on that one!

Yeah yeah yeah,,,,FUCK THE HYPE lemme judge by myself

I hope this part 2 is better because....I wasn't really feeling part 1...

Part 1 is her best album IMO, but I'm excited for Part 2. Add to the list of people bummed about no Annie.

Tortilla said:

oh lawd-hav-mercy

AlexdeParis said:

Y'know, as heretical as it seems to be, I lean towards that view myself. As cohesive as Baduizm, as far-reaching as Mama's Gun, as innovative as both - it's a strong contender for her finest piece of work to date.

deebee said:

I just don't understand the struggle people are having. Maybe it's because I'm a Pisces and am used to living in that crazy kind of worl in my own head

So. Fucking. Excited. For New Amerykah Pt. II. Cant. Fucking. Wait. Another. damn. day.

least she playing my hometown new years!!!!

i understand why some folks don't feel NA Pt 1. Took me a good 6 mos before i really really truly 'dug' it and felt it. NOTHING can top Mama's Gun & Worldwide underground for me, personally, thought. Baduizm is her WEAKEST effort IMO - to each their own.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Same here Im a Pices too and I like you think differently all the time. Sometime I wanna be with people...the next day I don't want anyone to see me...it's a happy medium between being stable and unstable ...but I KNOW it..and love it.

I liked Part 1 A LOT It's a grower, stayed in the car player for like 3 months straight!

CalhounSq said:

Same here...I had to get through all the layers and understand it....going deeper and deper into the rhythms until I had it all figured out was a pleasuarble experience.

Bring it ON.

paisleypark4 said:

Lol! Maybe she's just not for you if you have to work that hard...it should be instinctual! Music for pleasure should turn you on or off right away, IMVHO. You're telling me the first time you heard "The Healer," the breakdown on "Master Teacher" "That Hump" or "Honey," it wasn't instantly a pleasureable experience? I admit the album IS a grower and takes months to fully appreciate...

badujunkie said:

NO NO NO NONONNONONONONNO.....I loved The Healer from the moment the tv snow came on after the chimes!!!!! As soon as I heard the beginning of Amerykan Promise I knew I was in 4 a treat

Aren't we due for a single?

JackieBlue said:

we should be. but we're on Badu time. Plus, I think they'd go for a different strategy this time - "Honey" being released in 2007 didn't do that well on the R&B charts compared to what you'd usually expect the lead off from a Badu LP to do. So maybe they're pushing for January release of 1st single - IF there is a song that even fits the term 'single' on this album, that is!

BlaqueKnight said:

You guys need to pick up the latest Badu Live bootleg. It has pretty HQ live version of Annie from VH1 SoulSessions in '08.

badujunkie said:

i receoded that off the net onto mp3 directly...its done already

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[Edited 1/31/10 7:19am]

Identity said:

thank god

Identity said:

oh sure

errant said:

I like that song tho'. Wish Lil Wayne was not in it though. WHy ios it not on the album? Is the only version a bootleg recorded tape sound version?

paisleypark4 said:

It could go either way. He could be saying Thank God for Lil Wayne or thank God Lil Wayne is not on the album

badu actin' gangsta . i like it . hopefully a cleaner copy surfaces, even if it doesn't make the album (if the album even makes it ). please don't let the album be all like this though









"jump up in the air and stay there..."

January 2010



Rap-Up takes a track-by-track look at Erykah’s new and improved Amerykah:


1. “20 Feet Tall”
When Badu asks, “What did I do to make you fall so far from me?” she sorrowfully wonders what she did to push herself away from the one that she holds dear. She uses the analogy that she feels “20 Feet Tall” over keyboard riffs courtesy of 9th Wonder.

2. “Window Seat”
“I don’t want to time travel anymore. I want to be right now, right here,” Badu states while The Roots’ ?uestlove plays the drums and James Poyser strokes the keys. Being in the moment is one challenge of the song, on which she wishes for “a window seat for a ticket out of town to look around.” It also seems that the “Tyrone” hitmaker is looking for an escape, “a chance to fly, a chance to cry.”

3. “Agitation”
“What a day, what a day,” Badu laments on the track, which will remind listeners of the first verse from her 1997 Baduizm hit “On and On.” But this time she is fed up and wants to “pull his thing out, but it’s against the law.”

4. “Get Money”
Some may say a hip-hop album isn’t complete without a Biggie reference, but Badu extends the unspoken rule to soul. Over Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s “Get Money,” she uses money as a metaphor for love, time, affection, laughter, and all the good parts of her lover. “I look like a model/ I’ll do what I got to to stay in the running/ ’Cause I want your money,” she boasts. But what she longs for, above all, is control. “Let me drive your car because honey I want you bad!” she sings.

5. “Don’t Be Long”
The sweet sounds of Badu’s voice and a banjo blast through the speakers as she celebrates the simplicity of a single thought—the pain of waiting. “I can’t wait to see how you move/ I can’t wait to see what you do, so don’t be long,” she tells her lover.

6. “Love”
Before this song is played, a sound similar to that of the Emergency Broadcast System completely shocks the crowd. Badu uses the 30 seconds to describe the difference between the frequencies of fear and love, stating that fear has a low frequency and moves slow and love has a high frequency and moves fast. After that interruption, we return to our regularly scheduled program, and “Love” takes us back, way back, to the days of feel-good music. “I love how you make me feel,” she professes to the male in question, thereby creating a high frequency.

7. “Umm Hmm”
This is one of the songs on the album in which Badu’s voice can be heard joking in the background. While her man is loving her, she is cheating on him with his friends and can’t help but laugh. “You loving me and I’m driving your Benz, and I’m fucking your friends.”

8. “Fall in Love”
Using a sample from Eddie Kendrinks’ “Intimate Friends” (also used by Alicia Keys on “Unbreakable”), she warns her suitor over and over, “You don’t want to fall in love with me.” She also demands that if she stays, he should prepare to have his stuff rearranged. If that’s a threat, taking heed would be the best thing to do.

9. “Incense”
This is quite a celestial interlude, and sounds like someone used the studio board as a playground for different sounds. The experimental quality of the track makes it one to remember.

10. “Out My Mind Just in Time (Part 1) (Undercover Over-Lover)”
“I’m a recovering undercover over-lover recovering from a love I can’t get over!” Try saying that 10 times fast. In this tongue twister, Badu recoups from giving her man more than she gives herself in the relationship. But of course, time heals the wounds. Before she leaves, she presses upon her mate and tells him how far she would go for his love.

11. “Out My Mind Just in Time (Part 2)”
This song is quite psychedelic. It sounds like two songs mixed over each other to create the effect of having two beats. Badu expresses that she “built a wall like 10 feet tall” and in the end, she’s out her mind just in time. The album ends with one simple cheer of children, a confirmation that her thoughts and views are heard, understood, and validated.

–Tanya Remekie

I like Jump Up in the Ayer enough but I'm ready for the single

ThreadBare said:

I'm so tired of any and everybody working with that cockroach.