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Date: MAY 12, 2008
Erykah Badu performs at the Jacques Cartier Park on May 6, 2008 in Montreal, Canada.
Date: MAY 5, 2008
Erykah Badu performs at the Fox Theater on May 4, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan.
Date: MAY 5, 2008
A Fan Exclusive Merch Sale by the official Erykah Badu store! All fans can have a 15% off of all merchandise online! Click here to visit the official Badu store! The promotion ends on May 09!
When looking to draw 1,000 people and enough donations to keep a museum afloat, you'd best pull out all the stops. Dinner with Erykah Badu fits the bill. The alumna of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts has become a Grammy-winning artist and "the torchbearer for soul music." A dinner with her at Al
Biernat's in Dallas awaits one lucky bidder at the 23rd annual African American Museum Gala and Auction on May 10.
For all Italian fans: by clicking here You can read the Italian version of the article about Erykah Badu from the New York Times. Thx to Filippo for the info!
Erykah in two Polish magazines: Machina and Popcorn. Click thumbs below to see and read them (both in Polish).
Date: APRIL 29, 2008
Two amazing (!) fan arts made by Busk. Busk wrote: Here's a couple of pictures i've painted of Erykah with spraypaint,could you put them up on the site? Sure I can! :D. They're beautiful. Check them out by clicking thumb on the left.
I've added one new true fan - Ashley from the USA. Welcome!
Favourite Song section updated.
I've made new avatars with Erykah, hope You'll like them :). Feel free to use them anywhere You want. Click few of them below to see more.
Date: APRIL 28, 2008
In the midst of New Amerykah's highly acclaimed reviews from media outlets all over the world, multi-platinum Universal Motown artist, Erykah Badu keeps the steam rolling as she releases her second single, "Soldier". "Soldier," reminiscent of Baduizm's "Other Side of the Game," tells the story of a boy struggling to resist the gang-banging evils of his neighborhood block. Equipped with a thumping bass line and haunting flutes brought to life by producer Kareem Riggins, the single transforms into a protest song by the last verse as Badu poetically chants droplets of wisdom, "You got the wake up call/ When you heard the buildings fall" and "To my boys in Iraqi fields/This ain't no time to kill."After a four year recording hiatus, the single arrives at the height of Badu's accolades for New Amerykah Part I (4th World War), which debuted at #2 on the charts, selling over125,000 units in the first week. Baduushers in the single's release with “The New Amerykah | Vortex Tour 2008 AD,” a whirlwind, twelve-week, 49-city, 42-show tour that kicks off May 4th in Detroit, Michigan and ends June 15th in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Named for the swirling centers of subtle energy coming out from the surface of the earth, The Vortex Tour is expected to stir up a lot of excitement. “Most of the shows are in or near cities with naturally strong energy fields, and if they’re not,” said Badu, “we’re going to create them with the music”. Badu will perform songs from New Amerkyah as well as some of her most popular hits. The four-time Grammy award winner will then head off to Europe for tour dates which start June 25th in Copenhagen, Denmark and end on July 17th in Belgium. Appropriately, the Philly-based band The Roots will be the opening act for many of the dates, promoting their new album Rising Down. Badu, who has collaborated with The Roots in the past, features The Roots drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson on several New Amerykah tracks. Whether on tour or in the studio, Badu stays connected with her fans through Bandlink, a technology included in New Amerykah which allows purchasers to register to receive videos, tour updates, bonus tracks, commentary, exclusive content and discounts on merchandise from Badu’s online store. Always connected by her love of community, Badu will allocate $1 from every concert ticket sold to B.L.I.N.D - Beautiful Love Incorporated Non-Profit Development - Badu’s community organization that provides community-based programs for inner-city youth through music, dance, theater and visual arts.
Click here to see the whole scheduled VORTEX TOUR and check out where to go to see Erykah in the North America and Europe!
Date: APRIL 23, 2008
I've added many photos from Erykah's performance at the B1 club in Moscow, Russia on April 19, 2008. Click thumbs below to see them. There are also many videos made by fans in the internet, for example at the youtube.com.
Date: APRIL 16, 2008
Check out Erykah in the May issue of the Blender magazine. Lovely photo plus a short interview. Click thumb on the right to read it :).
Date: APRIL 14, 2008
Don M. Green and Corinne sent me their fan artworks. They're beautiful! Click here to see them.
We have also two new true fans. To learn more about them visit the true fans section.
All Polish EB Fans! Erykah is going to perform during the Heineken Open'er Festival in Gdynia, Poland on July 5, 2008. Mark Your calendars! :D / In Polish: Drodzy Fani Erykah :). Organizatorzy podaja, ze Erykah wystapi 5 lipca podczas Heineken Open'er Festival w Gdyni tak wiec szykujcie sie na niesamowite rozpoczecie wakacji :).
Date: APRIL 12, 2008
Check out Erykah in the 'Interview' magazine. Click thumb below to read and see it.
Date: APRIL 9, 2008
Tomorrow is an exclusive presale for the Erykah Badu and the Roots concert at Andrew Jackson Hall in Nashville on May 27, 2008. It will be available from 10AM to 10PM. For more information click here or the thumb on the right.
Date: APRIL 8, 2008
Erykah-Badu.com presents the official cover for the next Erykah Badu single from "New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)", Soldier. Looks amazing! :)
Check out the official artwork for the show in Moscow next week, April 19, 2008. There will be a collectors limited edition poster offered in the merch store in the next few weeks.
Erykah sent me a fan art made by an unknown fan. Also Susan sent me her own Badu fan art. Visit the fan art section to see them!
Date: APRIL 4, 2008
At okayplayer board You can decide which of the song from "New Amerykah" should be the next single. Help Erykah make this decision!
Date: APRIL 4, 2008
Ashanti sent me her Badu inspired tattoo! Click thumb on the left to see it!
We have one new true fan - Alonzo from the United States! Welcome! :) To learn more about Alonzo visit our true fans section.
Caroline and Anna sent me their drawings and digital art of Erykah Badu. Click here to see them.
Favourite song section updated! :)
Date: APRIL 2, 2008
Okayplayer.com has put beautiful photos taken by Terrence Jennings during Mos Def and Jay Electronica performance at Nokia Theater in Times Square. To see all photos visit a special okayplayer photo gallery.
On March 31, 2008 Erykah Badu was in Miami, FL. performing at Giant Steps 12th annual Sunset Soiree at the Delano hotel. Click here and here to see videos from that performance. Additional inromation about this event from OK! magazine: After Erykah Badu's performance at Giant Step during  Winter Music Conference at the Delano hotel in Miami Beach, the singer jumped in the pool fully clothed. The next night, she was partying it up with hottie Mark Ronson and Moby at the Florida Room. 
There is a new exclusive merchandise in the official Erykah Badu web store! There are
Real Thang/Healer Pink and Purple vinyls ,healer shirts and new speaker girl choices.To visit the official Badu store click this link - www.store.bandwear.com/erykahbadu.
I've found this beautiful photoshoot and called it 'Glasses' photoshoot :). Click thumbs below to see it.
Date: MARCH 28, 2008
Universal/Motown multi-platinum-selling, Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter/actress Erykah Badu takes the spotlight with her new album New Amerykah. Erykah Badu has enlisted some of the most talented, underground producers and engineers in the hip-hop game to support her fourth studio album in seven years, including producer 9th Wonder, Madlib, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Karriem Riggins, and a host of others. "The music is the star," says Erykah, "I just laid down my vocals and let the music breathe while the melodies tell the stories." Emerging and established DJ's,
producers/beat makers, and musicians can get in the mix as part of Erykah Badu "Real Thang" campaign and contest. Just download the acappella version of "Real Thang", originally produced by Madlib, and remix it. Creativity is key, so all types of remixes are welcomed (hip-hop, r&b/soul, house, broken beat, rock, reggae, etc.). Produced buzz track "Real Thang" is a special buzz track which does not appear on New Amerykah. For more information click here.
Date: MARCH 25, 2008
There is an album review of Erykah Badu's new album in the polish newspaper - Przekroj from March 2008. “New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” is rated 4/6 by the author of this review.Text of course is in polish. Click thumb on the left to read it.
Date: MARCH 24, 2008
“New Amerykah Part One (4th World War),” is a brilliant resurgence of black avant-garde vocal pop, convincing in its doubts and stable in its unmoored ways. This lineage started, roughly, in the late sixties, with Sly Stone, on the West Coast, and, a bit later, Marvin Gaye, in Detroit; continued through George Clinton’s various iterations of Funkadelic and Parliament; and bled into the work of one of the great soul acts of the nineties, D’Angelo, a friend of Badu’s. In fact, “New Amerykah” sounds a lot like an unintended sequel to D’Angelo’s masterpiece (and his most recent album, now eight years old), “Voodoo.” Like “Voodoo”—and like Miles Davis’s “On the Corner,” as several critics have noted—“New Amerykah” is a relatively short record that feels infinitely relaxed, and favors sound and mood over
choruses and verses. It is the work of a restless polymath ignoring the world around her and opting for an idiosyncratic, murky feeling that reflects her impulses. (Badu helped construct many of the backing tracks herself, running GarageBand on a laptop.) The success of that sound has resulted in Badu’s best opening week since her first album, “Baduizm,” was released, eleven years ago: both albums débuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts. Read more.
Cherie: Hello...I painted this as a gift for a friend of mine.  It is oil on canvas and measures 3’x4’ and was painted while listening to your music!  Thank you for the inspiration! To see Cherie's amazing fan art click thumb on the right.
I've added two missing “New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” lyrics. Amerykahn Promise and My People. Thx to SCO for them!
Date: MARCH 23, 2008
People: While many mother-son pairs have activities they participate in together, Erykah Badu and her son Seven, 10, take it to another level -- they like to rock out on their electric guitars! And there's more talent where that came from, says the 37-year-old singer/songwriter. Seven and I practice our electric guitars together. He plays upright bass in his orchestra at school. He took piano for four years. And he has a beautiful voice. He probably has the same eclectic tastes that his father [Andre 'Andre 3000' Benjamin] has. I would say his father is all in his DNA! While Erykah has previously shared how her children inspire her music, she says that they teach her as well. For example, her little boy keeps her up-to-date on technology!My son saw me singing songs into my phone and putting them on my voice mail. He goes, "Mom, you don't have to do that. All you have to do is use a microphone on your computer and open up this program called Garageband." I began doing that and wrote songs so quickly.Erykah's new release, New Amerykah, is out now. She is also mom to daughter Puma, 3˝.
Date: MARCH 23, 2008
I want to wish all of Erykah and erykah-badu.com fans much love, happiness and hope for this Easter. I've found this nice poem about Easter for all of You:

You, my friends, are one
great reason to celebrate
this Easter season.
Wishing you an Easter that's
as special as can be

Date: MARCH 21, 2008
Here are scans from the March 2008 edition of the "Trace" magazine with Erykah and Q-Tip on the cover. Thx to dusiek for the info .
Date: MARCH 18, 2008
I have added a new photo of 'Badu inspired' tattoo. This time this is the DeBlaqPearl's tattoo. Amazing! That's the true love. Click thumb to see it.
More "New Amerykah" lyrics. Thx to Letitia for them :*.
Date: MARCH 18, 2008
Neo-soul songstress Erykah Badu is scheduled to perform Saturday night, May 24 on the Miller Lite/ Tallapoosa Riverside Casino stage. As Montgomery's Family Weekend of community through music, Jubilee CityFest is pleased to have Erykah Badu perform Saturday night during the weekend festival, May 24. Be sure to mark your calendars now for the celebration. Jubilee CityFest 2008 will be held Downtown on  May 23 and 24. 
Date: MARCH 18, 2008
Erykah Badu will perform on 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' on Tuesday and 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show' on Friday. Thx to msbadu2000 for the info :*.
Date: MARCH 18, 2008
I was bored enough to make the new version of the site :D. After pinky version now we have something more dark :). Hope You like it. I made one new section - Badu Style Analysis. Enjoy! :)
Date: MARCH 14, 2008
Grammy Award-winning artists Erykah Badu and John Legend will jump aboard Tom Joyner’s ninth annual Fantastic Voyage. The Fantastic Voyage willl set sail May 18 - 25 from Miami on a seven day, six night cruise via the Royal Caribbean International’s ‘Freedom of the Seas. The singers will perform in a special cruise-passengers only concert at The Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico., hosted by Tom Joyner. Other celebrities joining Tom and the crew on the friendly seas include: Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Chaka Khan, Charlie Wilson, The Stylistics, The Emotions, Bobby Brown, Johnny Gill, SWV, Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, Mark Curry, Earthquake, Ralphie May, Sheryl Underwood, Adele Givens, and Lynn Whitfield.
Date: MARCH 11, 2008
There is a small "New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)" music review in the Polish edition of Newsweek from March 2008. Check it out by clicking thumbs below. It is in Polish (duh :D).
Date: MARCH 11, 2008
Finally! You can download four out of five parts of the VH1 Soul Stage with Erykah Badu. Didn't Cha Know, Honey, Me and Soldier. Enjoy! :):):):)
Date: MARCH 11, 2008
The day after she finished her new album at Electric Lady Studios, the West Village recording shrine that Jimi Hendrix built, the multiplatinum R&B singer Erykah Badu was back in her surprisingly modest apartment in Brooklyn, puttering. In the tiny kitchen she poured organic pomegranate juice into a jelly jar, then stretched out on a mattress on the floor as “New AmErykah, Part One (4th World War),” just released by Universal Motown, played on her laptop. After weeks in the studio, she was so happy to be home that she refused to leave, rescheduling appointments and interviews around her domestic whim and one really, really good bath. (More on that later.) Read more.
Date: MARCH 11, 2008
At essence.com there is the video from behind the cover with Erykah Badu. Click here to see the video and thumbs below to see small captures made by me.
Date: MARCH 11, 2008
Patricia sent me her Badu inspired tatoo. It's beautiful! Amazing! Click thumb on the left to see the big photo.
Date: MARCH 7, 2008
Erykah at the Bill Record's Store on February 26, 2008 while signing the new album! Big thx to Hal Samples, OniButterFLY, The Rosey One and msbean79 for these photos. Click thumbs below to see more and here to see the video made by MySpace from that event.
Date: MARCH 7, 2008
Thx to okayplayer.com we have scans from the Essence Magazine with Erykah on the cover! Click thumbs below to see them.
Okayplayer.com added also two scans from the New York Times and New York Magazine, both from March 2008.
Date: MARCH 7, 2008
Check out this small photo from the photoshoot for the Jet magazine. Erykah looks beautiful. Click the thumb to see it and here to see scans from the magazine.
Date: MARCH 7, 2008
I have added the ControFreaQ girl tatoo. Erykah sent me this photo. She is amazed by that! Wow. Click thumb to see it.
New section - cover girl. Check out various magazine covers, which Erykah graced.
Another true fan added! Welcome Lena :).
Favourite song section updated.
Date: MARCH 7, 2008
Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part One takes the No. 2 spot in its first week on the Hip-Hop and R&B charts, selling 123,900 copies. No. is still occupied by Janet Jackson and her Discipline.
Looking for New Amerykah, Pt. 1 (4th World War) by Erykah Badu? Download iTunes for free and you'll have instant access to more than 6 million songs, thousands of podcasts, music videos and audiobooks, plus hundreds of TV shows and movies. Click here to download Erykah's new album.
Erykah Badu has always been one to buck trends and create her own style, whether in her neo-soul music or audacious and colorful fashion choices. Her newest release, New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War, continues Badu's habit of defying expectations. The album, Badu's first release in five years, is the initial volume in a two (or perhaps three)part series in which Badu attempts to "talk for my race and my planet." Taking one look at the album's cover creates similar hopes of passionate social commentary, as drawings of weapons, syringes and dollar signs all float above the singer's pensive head. Read more.
Date: MARCH 5, 2008
Erykah is on the cover of the latest issue of the Essence magazine. Click thumb on the left to see the small cover. If anyone has scans, please share them with the rest of us! Thank You!
Date: MARCH 4, 2008
On her fourth studio album, New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War), Erykah Badu moves even further away from the neo-soul conventions she helped usher in more than a decade ago. Instead of retreading the simple melodies and succinct, pop song structures from her 1997 debut, Baduizm, she has mined an increasingly looser approach with each subsequent release. Read more.
okaypayer.com: It has been one week since the ever-so-dope New Amerykah PT. 1; 4th World War arrived in stores and stereos everywhere. We keep it spinning at the office and needless to say, this is an album you must physically own. According to early reports, Erykah is on track to debut at #2 on the Billboard charts after Janet Jackson's Discipline.
Date: MARCH 4, 2008
I have made a new section - Badu on the body. I will put there photos of Badu fans with anything related to Erykah on them. If You own anything like this: tatoo, autograph, etc. please send it to me :).
John sent me the story about his encounter with Erykah. Click here to read it.
I have updated 'favourite song' section with many songs from the new album :).
Date: MARCH 1, 2008
Erykah Badu and Jay Electronica for vimby.com and urb.com. Click play to watch it.

Date: MARCH 1, 2008
I have added three new lyrics from the "New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)". Thx to Ivana for the lyrics!

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