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The first release in five years from Ms. Erykah and the wait was well worthwhileOn her 4th studio effort she adds to that sort of specific grandiosity of uniquely socially conscious R & B in a groove somewhere between the likes of Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, A Tribe called Qwest and P.M. Dawn. The opener "Amerykahn Promise," puts out a hip-hop/bebop groove by Badu straight over an obscure seventies funk track by Roy Ayers's protégés Ramp. "The Healer"and "That Hump" deal with a nation's drug dependency, while "Soldier" deals with the state of today's Black America. The music locks into various fat grooves oozing with Badu's usual quirky-cool eccentricities. Her collaborators, producers Madlib, 9th Wonder and the three man unit Sa-Ra keep New Amerykah Part One honest, relevant and magnificently loose. It's not jazz. It just is what it is. So, enjoy...Read full review
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Bought this because of the song "Telephone", which is as good and soulful song as anyone has ever done! but have come to like some of the other songs as well; might very well be my introduction to a type of crossover hip-hop, and I never thought I would like hip hop! This should tell you something; since purchasing this, I have gone on to buy all her other recordings!
Ms. Badu is my all time favorite artist. I brought this cd because, I played my last one to death. I have each and every Erykah Badu album. She is timeless and so is her music.
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I like Erykah's body of work. Her music provokes serious thought and metaphysical intellect. I listen to this CD whenever I want to get my brain perculating.
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It's Erykah You can't say anything bad about her. She's on a whole different mental plane and she wears it well. I love her the music is the truth. The album art is reinforcement. It's like in your face... this is what's happening and some people still mindless. Talk about Blackness education, revolutionary thinking, all that she represents and calls attention to in this album reflects her inner reality. The 2 worlds becoming one, steping out of false reality in to the harsh but true reality and living it and trying to change to outcome. Fighting a mental warfare the way it should be fought... with words.
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