Ambition in urban music is great and all, but most performers neglect the street and its demands at their peril. So after an ambitious sophomore album that proudly displayed...
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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...
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The mode of an Erykah Badu show is evident 30 seconds into "Rimshot," this live disc's opener: A chorus chants "Ba-doo," varying the cadence here and...
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Conventional wisdom dictates that an artist should not release a live album as her second record, especially if it follows the debut by a matter of months. However, Erykah...
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Erykah Badu's voice caresses and arouses on her powerful first outing, which drips with Southern sweetness and swings with sophisticated soul. Badu's left the world asking...
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It's not enough for someone to be talented or original. No, they have to be the Next Big Thing. As a music writer, given to passionate advocacy, I'm as guilty of...
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Two years after D'Angelo brought the organic sound and emotional passion of R&B to the hip-hop world with 1995's Brown Sugar, Erykah Badu's debut performed a similar feat....
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In 1997, Erykah Badu released her critically acclaimed debut Baduizm, which sold more than two million copies and spawned successful hits like "On And On" and...
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Since the arrival of Erykah Badu onto the neo-soul scene back in 1997 with Baduizm, commercial music stood up and took notice with an onslaught of similar artists reaching...
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