But while I'm kind of annoyed by people with big debut albums having a live album really earlier in their career before they've amassed a catalog - I'd love to hear another Badu live album now - 1997's Live holds up pretty well. Generally speaking, those folks are worth waiting for (incidentally, I teleprompted the Urban One Honors broadcast a few months ago - Badu was supposed to present an award, but kept us waiting so long that we had to scramble to give her lines to someone else and adjust the script, but I couldn't even be mad, it's Erykah Badu).īadu's early success has kind of overshadowed the rest of her career commercially - Baduizm is by far her biggest seller, and the live album released the same year isn't far behind. I know a lot of people thought the mixtape that appeared a few years later, But You Caint Use My Phone, was as good as an album, but I found the whole thing mostly disappointing and forgettable - I definitely wanted to include the great Andre 3000 collaboration, but all the covers and guest verses by a Drake soundalike that Erykah wanted people to think maybe actually was Drake, it was weird.īut even before this long break between releases, Badu tended to take her time between records - not quite as much as D'Angelo or Maxwell, but it definitely feels like the artists who came up in that mid-'90s neo-soul wave share an indifference to the hurried pace of major label release schedules that I respect. In a couple weeks we'll be 10 years out from Erykah Badu's last proper album, Return Of The Ankh. Track 8 from But You Caint Use My Phone (2015) Tracks 6 and 11 from New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh) (2010)
Tracks 3, 9 and 12 from New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) (2008)
Tracks 4 and 15 from Worldwide Underground (2003) Tracks 1, 7 and 10 from Mama's Gun (2000)
In Love With You featuring Stephen Marley I probably would've done this earlier, but I did a Complex list of the best Erykah Badu songs a few years ago that scratched that itch for a while, but now I feel like doing a proper playlist.Įrykah Badu deep album cuts ( Spotify playlist):ġ0.
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