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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 Clintons various
iterations of Funkadelic and Parliament; and bled
into the work of one of the great soul acts of
the nineties, DAngelo, a friend of
Badus. In fact, New Amerykah
sounds a lot like an unintended sequel to
DAngelos masterpiece (and his most
recent album, now eight years old), Voodoo.
Like Voodooand like Miles
Daviss On the Corner, as
several critics have notedNew
Amerykah is a relatively short record that
feels infinitely relaxed, and favors sound and
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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 Badus best
opening week since her first album, Baduizm,
was released, eleven years ago: both albums
débuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts.
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Cherie:
Hello...I painted this as a gift for
a friend of mine. It is oil on
canvas and measures 3x4 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
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