While the men experienced much success in getting the genre off the ground, it was Badu that shined the spotlight a bit brighter on this burgeoning concept. As she was among the wave of this new music movement, she was the first female artist during its incubation to truly assist in catapulting the timeless feel and sound we know it to be. European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.14, no.17. April 26, 1997. p.17. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah, PT. 1: 4th World War CD Album". CD Universe. Muze . Retrieved October 22, 2011.

Frere-Jones, Sasha (March 31, 2008). "Monarch". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on June 25, 2009 . Retrieved October 21, 2011. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)". lescharts.com. Hung Medien . Retrieved December 25, 2011. Lewis: I met her in the studio with D’Angelo for their “Your Precious Love” cover. Most of her record was done already. What she told me later was neither she nor D’Angelo liked that cover; they felt that their voices didn’t really mesh. According to Nielsen Soundscan, New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) sold 359,000 copies in the United States by early 2010. [63]

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In 2001 Badu embarked on the Mama's Gun World Tour. The tour started in North America on February 10 in Cleveland, Ohio at the Allen Theatre. [31]

Badu alongside Brenda Cherry, Creola and Shaquanda Cotton at the Africa Care Academy 10th Annual Educational Awards Banquet in Dallas, Texas Badu: It was part of the demo, but I wanted some live instrumentation with it. Since I was in Philly and had the opportunity to play with a human drum machine, a.k.a. Questlove Thompson, I was trying to get as much as I could. [Laughs] The sample [ Donald Byrd and Isaac Hayes’ “I Feel Like Loving You Today”] was originally done by my roommate in college, whose name was Waldo. I took that sample and we created what you hear as “Sometimes” with the Roots. Gold and Platinum". Cria.ca. December 1, 2011. Archived from the original on April 12, 2009 . Retrieved January 4, 2012.Massenburg: We used a tone of spirituality because it was close to Buddhism — like, Baduizm, this is who I am. We came up with a campaign around the phrase, “What’s your -izm?” With marketing, it was me and Erykah. That’s it. Everyone thought I was crazy — this little girl from Dallas with this thing on her head — but when they got into the album, they changed their tune. People started wearing headwraps again. Like with D’Angelo, when brothers started wearing cornrows again. It became mainstream again. For those expecting another downtempo collection of sultry meditations, the live-band funk opener, “Penitentiary Philosophy,” puts that notion to rest. While Mama’s Gun is stylistically ambitious, the sound is also comforting and familiar. Engineer Russell Elevado introduced a warm, honey-like sound by exclusively using vintage microphones and recording equipment for the album, which was recorded in the famous Electric Lady Studios. The studio regularly housed a collective of musicians who called themselves The Soulquarians, frequent collaborators who drew inspiration from one another, solidifying the neo-soul sound of the early 00s with era-defining albums like D’Angelo’s Voodoo and Common’s career-shifting Like Water For Chocolate. Flowing from past to present Rhinehart: I remember how, in my introduction of her, that I said something to the effect that vocally she was a stylist in the way we think of Billie Holiday.

Chris Trevett, Staff producer/engineer at Zomba/Battery Studios in New York City (“Rimshot,”“Next Lifetime,”“Certainly”) FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth". FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth. October 27, 2021. Archived from the original on April 1, 2010. Rhinehart: When she came to the Soul Café in New York, the audience sang her song: “Ba-duuu, ba-duuu” [in a sing-song voice]. I remember Erykah being so amazed at this: “You all know my song?”“You all know my work?” Badu flipped people on their heads with the intriguing teachings of the Five-Percenter Nation on her first single “On & On.” Unlike most artists, Badu expanded her listeners to a higher level of consciousness, exposing them to tenets and ways of life they may not have previously considered. Baduizm also stood out for its incorporation of hip-hop. Tapping into her teenage rapping days, Badu fused the spoken and sung word in a way that beautifully married the two, whether it was the freestyle flow of " Sometimes (Mix #9)" or " Otherside of the Game."

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