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Erykah Badu
- Record Label: Motown
- Release Date: Mar 30, 2010
- Summary: Unlike New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War, the follow-up is the opposite of the 2008 release, with songs about relationships and love and with a more analog sound.
- Record Label: Motown
- Genre(s): R&B, Soul
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Top Track
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so, presently I'm standing here right now you're so demanding tell me what you want from me concluding concentrating on my music, lover and my... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 25
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Mixed: 2 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh's comfortable style only makes it that much easier to get pleasantly lost in.
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With a single flutter, she exudes both confidence and insecurity. With each fragile note, she conveys experience and doe-eyed enthusiasm, optimism and loneliness, and ends up wooing us and wowing us in the process.
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Whether the specifics involve being needed or wanting to fly away, lusting for someone or letting go, "New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh" is a velvety, but still appealingly odd, exploration that feels more like a casual counterweight than a heady sequel.
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MojoThrough the hypnotic, J Dilla produced Love to the ghostly Incense, the short skit You Loving Me to the skittish jazz of Agitation, it's the sound of an artist in full, uncensored flow. [June 2010, p. 93]
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The spacey, meandering jams flow effortlessly, bringing to mind sunny afternoons with an old lover and a big bag of weed. No, it’s not the kind of album that’ll change the world, but it might just be the perfect summer soundtrack of the year.
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Part II is an altogether more personal and laidback affair, concerned with romance and emotions.
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Badu seems so taken by hazy texture--and so determined to play the weirdo--that she's neglected to write many actual songs.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 2 out of 10
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May 21, 2019It's great to hear Badu returning to her vibe from her earlier works in Mama's Gun and Baduizm.
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HankPApr 8, 2010Initially underwhelming, but grows on you like crazy.
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UrgheeApr 13, 2010This is dope! And it gets better and better after each listening.
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Nov 15, 2011
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Nov 29, 2021
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ChristopherSApr 8, 2010More compassionate than the last album, she experiments too much w/ her 'veteran' rather than her talent.
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uptonkApr 12, 2010
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