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Erykah Badu
Penitentiary Philosophy
A.D. 2000
Green Eyes
A true tour de force, Mama s Gun is that rare sophomore album that shows a maturing artist at her best. Erykah Badu s voice was always her main attraction its unique sound has been compared to Billie Holiday and Chaka Kha.
more »n. Here, it s her skill with that voice that shines. Badu shapes her instrument to suit her material (all of it written or cowritten by her). A full range is represented: On faster, danceable tracks like Penitentiary Philosophy and Booty, she sounds gritty and funky. On softer, more introspective tracks, like A.D. 2000 and the single Bag Lady, she shows amazing restraint, letting her voice travel lightly over the notes, allowing the songs emotions to guide her performance. The high point of the disc is Badu s duet with Stephen Marley, In Love with You, easily the sweetest, truest love song of the year. That alone is reason enough to buy the disc and you won t regret having done
Erykah Badu
World Keeps Turnin (Intro)
I Want You
World Keeps Turnin (Outro)
Reviewed on 4/3/2011.
The genre is R&B neo-soul, adult contemporary R&B, contemporary R&B, The so-called EP that will make many Erykah Badu skeptics wonder what s going on is actually 15 minutes longer than What s Going On. Why would any musician want to call a recording of such length 50 minutes, to be precise an EP? The fact that Worldwide Underground is being referred to as an EP makes it apparent that it isn t intended to be considered the true follow-up to Mama s Gun. You also find out throughout the course of the disc that the loose, spare arrangements aren t likely to generate a stream of tidy, four-minute Top Ten hits. As easy as the disc is to slide into, it s far and away the least commercial R&B release of the year. Written, produced, and performed by Freakquency a seemingly ad hoc group consisting of Badu, James Poyser, Rashad Ringo Smith, and R.C. Williams along with a rev