Worldwide Underground - Erykah Badu
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 17 Ratings

  • Summary: Officially an EP, this 10-track effort is actually a full 50 minutes long and contains all new material. Guests include Lenny Kravitz, Zap Mama, Queen Latifah, Angie Stone and Bahamadia.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. 90
    An astonishing album... a nu soul master that should ride high on any 21st century 'best of' lists. [Dec 2003, p.109]
  2. For the first time in her career, Badu is wearing her own voice.
  3. This time around, she and her collaborators have also figured out how to blow away the incense without losing her mystique.
  4. 60
    There's rambling, digital fiddling and self-indulgent sprawl here, but a sense of purpose, too, even as her lips move on autopilot. [#20, p.114]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. ZoeshaMountain
    10
    I don't care what anyone says. You shouldn't judge a CD by the review. Listen to it for yourself and let your own mind decide! The CD is the bomb Expand
  2. MichaelD
    10
    Astonishing
  3. mayaNN
    10
    Im freakin lovin this one- I think it has made its way to my desert island top 10- you can feel some of the chaka khan influence in some of the tracks Expand
  4. BrooklynBrown
    6
    Once you get into a flow, the damn track KEEPS flowing...too much air space, sound like she was just trying to fill up space on the CD, at first I wanted my money back, but I'm kinda feeling track 3 and 4, i hate Love of my life Worldwide Underground.....Badu needs to come with sumthin much better next time, she's still my girl, just a little high on some incense...peace!!! Expand

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