Date: FEBRUARY 29, 2008
type: photo

whudat.com: Erykah Badu and Q-Tip are on the cover of the new Trace magazine. “Art and Soul” says it all; the two of them embody the words and those two brown bodies leap off the page. I’ve yet to pick up a copy or I’d scope the article for Trace’s meaning of “Art and Soul.” I tell you, I look at this and can’t help but think back to the days when they were the chart topping artists of the time. Today they represent what has become an oddity in music - truth.
Date: FEBRUARY 29, 2008
type: photos
Three more scans of the cd and the back of the album. Thx to my girl yokasta for these :*.
Date: FEBRUARY 29, 2008
type: photos
Erykah Badu, Dave Chapelle, and Billy McNamara at Ghostbar in Dallas for Erykah Badu's CD release party and birthday party on February 26, 2008 in Dallas, USA.
Date: FEBRUARY 29, 2008
type: photos
Thx to my lovely Jennifer (msbadu2000) we have scans of the "New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)" booklet! The album art is amazing! I love her notes. Click thumbs below to see all of them.
Date: FEBRUARY 29, 2008
type: photos
Jennifer has also scaned two magazines for us! Jet magazine with Erykah on the cover and Giant magazine with the photoshoot we all know. Plus I have found two scans from the German edition of the Vanity Fair. Click thumbs to see and read the articles.

Jet Magazine

Giant Magazine

Vanity Fair - German edition

Date: FEBRUARY 29, 2008
type: news
“New AmErykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War” (Motown), Erykah Badu’s first album in eight years, has finally arrived and it’s bound to challenge, confound and confuse even the singer’s most ardent fans. But it’s not like she didn’t warn them. On the cover of her 2003 EP, “World Wide Underground,” Badu signaled that she was up for something completely different. “ ‘Freakquency’ is born,” the script on the CD cover art declared. “And neo-soul is dead.” Read more.
Date: FEBRUARY 28, 2008
type: news

If You live in the USA You can watch Erykah's performance at the VH1 Soul. Click here to watch her performing "Honey", "Me", "The Healer", "Didn't Cha Know" and "Other Side of the Game". You can also see photos from the performance by clicking thumbs below.
Date: FEBRUARY 28, 2008
type: news
I hope all of You, who could of course, already have a copy of "New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)". I'm going to have my copy next week when there will be the release in Poland so I will provide the scans. Hope You can wait :). If You still don't have it You can order it directly from Erykah or at amazon.com. Have a wonderful listening!
Date: FEBRUARY 28, 2008
type: news

Erykah's blog entry at bet.com: A big topic that I hear come up a lot is, is hip-hop degrading women? Well, I think hip-hop is exploiting. I wouldn’t say degrading, because the woman species cannot be degraded. We’re such a great resilient species, we are, after all, the mother of all civilization. There’s no way anything or anyone can degrade us. I think that women are exploited. I think jewelry is exploited. I think commercialism is exploited. I think money is exploited. I think all these things are quite thrown in our faces to make us feel and think that those are the things that are most important. I would say for a person that only knows two or three things, those are the only things that they gon’ talk about or sing about.
If we only see two or three images, those are the images that we think are acceptable and we’re all trying to get paid in the game. We’re gonna try to mold our craft to…and our songs and our images to look like what’s acceptable, so we could fit in, so we can be a part of this American dream of music in this industry. I think those ideas are so exploited. I think we are so mislead. I think we’re so confused about what’s good and what’s not because we’ve been programmed to think that a certain thing is good. As artists grow into themselves, and this is my opinion, they begin to see other things. And when you give them more choices, you give them more opinions and as you grow, it changes your perspective or your point of view. There was a time when that wouldn’t bother me at all–to see a booty shaking. That wouldn’t bother me, cause that’s what I was into. There’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s another side to that too. I would not want my daughter to think that’s the way that you have to be to be successful. That’s a very tribal thing. When I say tribal thing I mean, all across the world, tribe-based societies, the body is beautiful, the gyration and the dance, we’re born sexual beings, we’re spiritual beings and we pay homage to that, but if that’s the only thing we see, I call that exploitation and not degradation. You heard it from Badu. It’s my opinion.
Date: FEBRUARY 26, 2008
type: update
Today's the BIG DAY! You all ready?!?!? New Amerykah plus E's birthday!!! Check out our lovely birthday book for Erykah. Thank all of You who sent their wishes! You are amazing! Click the thumb to see our special ERYKAH BADU BIRTHDAY BOOK 2008.

Birthday Book
Date: FEBRUARY 25, 2008
type: news
dallasblog.com: Badu, will be promoting her new album, New Amerykah, with a Late Night Listening Party and Signing at Bill’s Records and Tapes on Monday, Feb. 25 at 11:00 p.m.The first 100 people to bring a print out of their Myspace profile with Erykah Badu in their top 8 will receive a free ticket to her Jam Session at the House of Blues the following night Tuesday, Feb. 26. Jeff Liles will also be giving away his documentary, “The Last Record Store” featuring Bill Wisner, owner of Bill’s Records and Tapes, to the first 50 people. Located in the South Side on Lamar district of South Dallas, this amazing record store has been in business for almost thirty years. Bill’s Records has always been ahead of the curve as evidenced by in store appearances by the legendary Eazy E, Geto Boys and Beastie Boys. The walls are covered with astonishing works of rural folk art, and the rare grooves are stacked to the ceiling. The store still features live in store performances every Saturday afternoon, with free beer for adults and free ice cream for kids.
Date: FEBRUARY 25, 2008
type: news
canadianpress.com: 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 re-treading the simple melodies and succinct, pop song structures from her 1997 debut, "Baduizm," she has mined an increasingly looser approach with each subsequent release. "Mama's Gun" (2000) ends with a 10-minute suite, and "Worldwide Underground" (2003) is a moody, 50-minute EP full of rambling grooves and hazy lyrics.More than ever though, Badu challenges fans to keep up with her creative impulses. Those who do will be richly rewarded for their effort. The CD is more daring than the album's current single, "Honey." Hidden as the disc's closing bonus track, it's almost an anomaly given the preceding material.Dark, mesmerizing head-nodders largely produced by hip-hop eccentrics Madlib and Shafiq Husayn and Taz Arnold of Sa-Ra Creative Partners dominate "New Amerykah." Incantatory chants, esoteric spoken-word rants and Badu's quirky vocals - whether achy blues or mumbled coos - add to the funky jumble.Indeed, it's a brilliant mess where songs often switch tempo midstream then settle back on-track. Yet the disc is also where Badu's lefty socio-politics ("The Cell"), messages of self-acceptance ("Me") and the power of perseverance ("Soldier") reveal an artist willing to share herself as the unfinished article. On the hypnotic "Master Teacher," she confesses: "See, I've been in search of myself/ for it's just too hard for me to find . . . cause I'm in the search of something new." This effort is certainly a huge step in the right direction.Check out this track: Over the horn-accented "Me," a strikingly honest Badu reflects on past relationships with her baby-daddies, Andre 3000 and the D.O.C.: "Had two babies, different dudes/ and thought for both my love was true ... hey, that's me."
Date: FEBRUARY 25, 2008
type: update
I have closed the Birthday Book. I will gather everything up and tomorrow it will be available to see the whole book :).
Date: FEBRUARY 22, 2008
type: video
Erykah Badu Goes On 106 & Park and Speaks On Album and More. Click 'play' to watch it and here to see capures made by me.

Date: FEBRUARY 22, 2008
type: photos
CoSM Blog: Hundreds of press people turned out to celebrate the release of Erykah Badu's album, "New Amerykah." on February 20, 2008. She played the album to a packed house at Chapel of Sacred Mirror, then took questions of all kinds.  One person asked her what her philosophy was and she stated that she considers herself "first a spiritual being, then a human being, then a woman, then a color, in that order."  She spoke on how the Kah and the Ba in her name are specifically related to ancient Egyptian words for the Soul. The album is awesome, very trancey, Erykah's mellifluous voice riding waves of R & B and hip hop beats, with news headlines of soldiers to nostalgia of sweet records that filled her youth. Click thumbs below to see photos.
Date: FEBRUARY 22, 2008
type: news + photos
Erykah is going to be on the cover of the URB magazine, due out the first week of March plus Erykah is on the cover of the Jazz magazine. If anyone will be or is having scans, please please share them with the rest of us by using my e-mail address: webmaster[@]erykah-badu.com. Since there is the album release, Erykah will be probably in many magazines and newspapers in USA and other countries, so if You want You can share scans with the rest of us, who cannot get them. Thank You in advance :*. To see bigger photos click thumbs below.
Date: FEBRUARY 21, 2008
type: news
New Amerykah review at Entertainment Weekly: They say that eyes are the windows to the soul. With Erykah Badu, however, it may be wiser to go directly to the hair. Badu habitually uses it as an extension of her art — wrapped, tied, dyed, or magnificently Afroed — but on New Amerykah's illustrated cover, it literally contains a multitude: fetuses, dollar signs, raised fists, weapons, syringes, flowers... Apparently, she's got a lot on her mind. Ever since her multiplatinum 1997 debut, Baduizm, Badu has cultivated the air of a mild musical eccentric, unusual but acces¬sible. She is both earth mama and mystic, a Billie Holiday jazz-rasp queen with a tangy Southern drawl and a penchant for hip-hop boys (she's been linked to Common and OutKast's André 3000). On Amerykah, she joins forces with a disparate group of collaborators, 67-year-old jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers and DJ/rapper/producer Madlib (Talib Kweli, Ghostface Killah) among them. Ayers helms the wonderfully bizarre opening track, ''Amerykahn Promise'' — a horn-filled tribute (or is it a retort?) to the blaxploitation anthems of the '70s — in which she breathes, ''I'll give you my eyes/I'll give you my ears/I'll give you my hands,'' and pledges her lips, tongue, thighs...''damn near anything you want.'' Madlib, meanwhile, brings an undulating, snake-charmer menace to the atmospheric hymn ''The Healer (Hip Hop).'' Back in 2006, rapper Nas declared that hip-hop was dead; in 2008, Erykah claims ''it's bigger than religion…bigger than the government.'' With her it sounds not like a boast but a fortune-teller's promise. ''Me,'' built on gentle beats and muted horns, is perhaps Badu's most fully realized attempt at autobiography: ''Ev¬erything around you see/The ankhs, the wraps, the plus degrees...It's all me.'' She also freely says she's ''had two babies [with] different dudes'' and laments that at 37, ''my ass and legs have gotten thick.'' Badu sings with a graceful self-accep¬tance that would do Mary J. Blige proud, but she delivers it with an easy humor Blige has never shown. Madlib also guides the breezy, midtempo charmer ''My People,'' while ''Soldier 7'' serves up a lyrical state-of-the-union update on Marvin Gaye's ''What's Going On.'' The portrait of urban blight that follows, ''The Cell,'' does the same with Stevie Wonder's ''Living for the City.'' It's odd, then, that ''Honey,'' the album's bonus track, is also its first single. The song's squiggly bass line and cute but inane sentiments (''Honey, you so sweet/Sugar got a long way to catch you'') are perhaps the safest, least interesting efforts on the album. Thankfully, Badu spent 10 other tracks showing us exactly what she can do. A-
Date: FEBRUARY 21, 2008
type: photos

Erykah Badu performs as part of VH1's Soul Stage at St. Annes Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York on February 19, 2008.
Date: FEBRUARY 21, 2008
type: news

soulbance.com: According to Vogue, Erykah Badu is hooking up with Tom Ford as the face of his as-yet-unnamed new fragrance. The information was probably leaked to the fashion mag by Ford himself, but there are no accompanying details. At this point, we can only toss around speculation on the product's name: Bah Du Toilette. Hopefully, Tom won't rope Erykah into participating in an ad campaign like his last one, which is a little NSFW and kind of trashy in the way that's only acceptable in fashion. May the Creator be with her.
Date: FEBRUARY 21, 2008
type: video
Check out this TV spot for the upcoming Badu's album - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War).

Date: FEBRUARY 17, 2008
type: news
At amazon.com You can listen to short samples of all songs from Erykah's new album - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)! Click here to listen!!
Date: FEBRUARY 15, 2008
type: news
Support Erykah and join her official Street Team! You'll have access to exclusive materials and could meet other fans! Click here to sign up!
If You always dreamt about having a t-shirt with Erykah or anything related to her, you finally have a chance! Visit the special Erykah Badu official merchandise.
There is going to be the Erykah Badu Listening Party on February 21, 2008 in Washington, DC. Click here to see the ad for the party.
Date: FEBRUARY 14, 2008
type: update + news

Have a wonderful Valentine's Day! Much love and happiness. If You want to send someone a Valentine message on MySpace, use our Erykah Card in the 'myspace graphics' section.
You can also use the Erykah Badu Valentine Card Maker and send it to Your beloved one.
okayplayer.com: Erykah is going to perform in Nigeria on February 17, 2008. Click here to see the poster.
Erykah has added few videos to her MySpace Video Section. Click here to see all videos uploaded by E.
Date: FEBRUARY 12, 2008
type: news

Win tickets for the special Erykah Badu live concert, for an intimate, invite only performance for VH1 Soul on February 19. Click here or the thumb on the left to learn more and to participate!
Vote for 'Honey' at the VH1 Top 20 Countdown. Click here to vote.
Date: FEBRUARY 12, 2008
type: video
Animated video of Erykah Badu's "Honey" song. Click play to watch it.

Date: FEBRUARY 10, 2008
type: news

Okayplayer.com: Erykah is going to be on the cover of the next issue of the Billboard magazine.
Singer Erykah Badu, 36, has always been known for her writing skills in the music world, but after her children -- son Seven, 10, and daughter Puma, 3 ½ -- entered the world, they have influenced her for the better. Read more.
In her decade-plus career, Erykah Badu hasn't been afraid to wait long periods between projects. But now Badu is making up for lost time. Five years on from her last release, the "Worldwide Underground" EP, she is putting the finishing touches on "Nu AmErykah," a double-album to be released in separate installments. Read more.

Date: FEBRUARY 10, 2008
type: video + photos

Erykah gives Vimby.com some love. This is juts a teaser with Erykah and Jay Electronica, the full video will be available next week. Click here to see captures and click play below to watch the teaser.

Date: FEBRUARY 7, 2008
type: video + photos
Erykah Badu at the conference before her concert in Tel Aviv, Israel on January 31, 2008. Click play to watch it and here to see captures made by me :).

Date: FEBRUARY 7, 2008
type: photo

Erykah is featured in the latest issue of the Complex magazine. She comments on what men usually say and how she sees the issue herself. The scan is the property of okayplayer.com :). Click the thumb on the left to see and read it.
Date: FEBRUARY 6, 2008
type: news

Erykah Badu presentes the CD Release Party & Jam Session on February 26, 2008. House of Blues * Dallas, 2200 North Lamar Street, Dallas | Doors Open at 8:00PM | Ages: 18+ | Tickets: $20.00 – GA advance | On Sale: Friday, February 8 @ 10AM. The party will be hosted by Erykah and friends.
Date: FEBRUARY 6, 2008
type: update

I'm really sorry but I have to close the last newsletter, because it expired :/. I didn't know that it is a limited mailing list :/. I had to create another one so please sign up again. I'm really sorry for that :(.

Date: FEBRUARY 6, 2008
type: photos

Erykah was recently pictured during a trip to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Photos are from February 3, 2008 and the credit for them goes to Sociallitelife.com. Click thumbs below to see them.
Date: FEBRUARY 5, 2008
type: update

I've made new aim icons. Fell fre to use them. To see all aim icons click icons below.

Date: FEBRUARY 5, 2008
type: news

There is another review of the concert in Tel Aviv prepared by Ben Jacobson for The Jerusalem Post. Click here to read it.

contactmusic.com: Erykah Badu is to undertake an innovative new marketing strategy for her forthcoming live album - she is releasing the LP through branches of Starbucks coffee shops. The move comes as part of a major push by the rapper's Universal record label which has seen Badu's first studio album in five years, Nu AmErykah, split into two - with the first half released later this month (Feb08) and a live LP scheduled for autumn 2008. And the marketing campaign has already begun with songs from 4th World War - the first half of Nu AmErykah - being played before films in U.S. cinemas and artwork from the album plastered over coffee mugs in various outlets across the country. And Badu's next release, a live album titled Loretta Brown, will be made available
exclusively at Starbucks. Although no further details have been revealed about the daring move, the star insists she will be taking her time planning her career. She says, "I don't always make the best decisions when it comes to timing between my records. I could be seen as a poor decision-maker when it comes to those things. But it sure feels good to me, and that's the only thing I can really go with."
undercover.com: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez will be heard on Erykah Badu's forthcoming album 'New Amerykah (Part One, 4th World War). Rodriguez-Lopez was conscripted by Badu along with other guests, 9th Wonder, Madlib, Mike Chavarria, ?uestlove and R&B singer Bilal. 'New Amerykah' is Badu's first full-length album in more than seven years. The last major release for Badu was 'Mama's Gun' in 2000 although she released the EP 'World Wide Underground' in 2003. The first single of this album, 'Honey', recreates images of Rufus, Diana Ross, The Beatles and Olivia Newton-John. 'New Amerykah (Part One, 4th World War)' will also be released on USB.
Date: FEBRUARY 5, 2008
type: news + photos

Erykah in two magazines: Clutch and Giant! Here you can read the interview from the Clutch and here from the Giant. The Giant magazine will be in stores on February 11th, 2008. Below amazing photos from the Giant magazine made by Kenneth Cappello.

Date: FEBRUARY 4, 2008
type: update

26th of February is near so we do not have a lot of time to wish Erykah all the best! I've opened a 2008 Birthday Book so that you can wish her what you like :). Click the banner above and fill the form to wish her a happy birthday!

Date: FEBRUARY 3, 2008
type: news

From forbes.com: "SoulStage: Erykah Badu" premieres on Tuesday, February 26 at 9 p.m. "SoulStage" gives viewers an inside look into the heart and soul of some of their favorite artists through their new music and past hits. VH1 Soul artists will share the inspirations and stories behind each soulful song and give an exclusive live performance to their most dedicated fans.

Ynetnews.com about Badu's performance in Tel Aviv: She sang, drummed, danced and turned the evening into a gigantic party. Erykah Badu’s performance in Israel was pure magic even when she did nothing at all. Two days before her performance in Israel, singer Erykah Badu confidently and calmly stated “I am the music and the music is me.” At her Saturday show in the Ganei Taarucha Exhibition Grounds in Tel-Aviv, Badu lived up to every bit of that bombastic assertion. In front of an enthusiastic crowd of thousands of fans, Badu positively lit up the stage, and gave what can undoubtedly be deemed the best R&B performance ever seen
on an Israeli stage. For two and-a-half hours Badu effortlessly captivated the audience with boundless sound and energy, sporting a floral dress, jeans, high heels and her trade mark afro wig. (...) Badu often came down to interact with the audience, latched on to them, allowed them to buoy her up and vice versa. The singer met with fans after the show, in her bare feet while nibbling on raspberries and green beans, and listened patiently to all of their well wishes and stories. She told fans about her travels in Israel, her family history, her 10-year-old son, Seven, and three-year old daughter Puma, as well as current boyfriend Jay Electronica. She ended the meeting by asking fans to pray for peace with her, a rare moment in which an artist speaks to an audiences’ soul and meets them truly at eye level. Read more.
Date: FEBRUARY 3, 2008
type: photos

Erykah performed yesterday (February 2nd) in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was truly an amazing night for all Badu fans from Israel. We present You couple of photos from the performance made by Shelly.p, Julzzy and Rishin. If anyone who's been there would like to share his opinion about the concert with the rest of us, feel free to do that, by using the form in the contact section or by using my e-mail address: @. Click thumbs below to see photos. /

Date: FEBRUARY 1, 2008
type: news + photos

Sporting a huge, billowing Afro and a T-shirt with an anti-Iraq war slogan, Erykah Badu said she identifies with Palestinian hip-hop and expressed support for Louis Farrakhan before a crowd of Israeli fans and journalists Thursday. "I come from across the water bringing light and hope," the 36-year-old singer said. She is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. Badu commissioned a poster for her visit. It features a large hamsa a traditional Middle Eastern good-luck charm that appears to be growing out of her hair. At the bottom, the words for peace in Hebrew and Arabic appear side by side. The singer, who couldn't name any Israeli hip-hop artists, said she identified best with the Palestinians and their hip-hop scene, saying they are part of her "tribe" of hip-hop. "They use (hip-hop) as a form of liberation, as a form of pre-resistance, as a form of therapy," she said. She defended Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, whose statements have been labeled "bigoted and anti-Semitic" by the Anti-Defamation League. "(Farrakhan is) not an anti-Semite. He loves all people," Badu said. Her next album, "Nu AmErykah," will be released Feb. 26, the date of Savior's Day, a Nation of Islam holiday. Israeli reggae-soul group Karolina and Funset, who will be opening for Badu's concert, posed for pictures with the singer, then joined her in raising the black power clenched-fist salute. / Erykah is to perform in Tel Aviv, Israel tomorrow (February 2, 2008). Click photos below to see photos from that conference.