 | Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. One: 4th World War
3.9
excellent
| Ranking: #48 for 2008 | |
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| | Full Review | Ratings (162) |
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| 4.5 superb | Iai EMERITUS | February 27th 08 |
To be truthful, it wouldn't surprise me if this album got lost to history a little, and got dismissed as an experimental folly the same way Common's Electric Circus has been. Defiantly anti-mainstream, it's certainly the least accessible thing she's ever done, and perhaps the least accessible album ever associated with the Soulquarians. It takes time to click, for sure, but even from the first listen New Amerykah reveals its considerable depths and strengths, and invites the listener to invest the time needed to explore them. "Telephone" and "That Hump" are heartfelt and downbeat, "Twinkle" and "New Amerykah" furiously inventive, "Master Teacher" and "The Healer" as good as Afrocentricity gets in 2008. The sweet single "Honey" doesn't really fit, but it's good all the same. If another soul album comes out this year that's any better than this, 2008 will have been the best year for the genre in a generation - this album has quite simply grabbed me by the throat and it won't let go.
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| 3.5 great | Paxster | July 3rd 15 |
Easily the album which leans most heavily towards hip-hop in her discography, with jarring audio
fragments, bizarre interludes and themes of social desolation which all add up to create a
challenging, disturbing, avant-garde listen. Not quite the classic I was hoping for, its
disjointed and frustrating structure put it on a par with Worldwide Underground for me.
Track Picks: 'Amerykahn Promise', 'The Healer', 'Me', 'Soldier', 'The Cell', 'Twinkle', 'Master
Teacher', 'The Hump, 'Telephone', 'Honey'
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| 4.0 excellent | CamiloG | April 21st 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Timmy | January 18th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Alex61 | December 10th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | GMBass | October 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Nights | August 29th 16 |
| 3.5 great | p4p | August 15th 16 |
| 5.0 classic | loulou | February 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Henry | February 14th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mactopus | November 28th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | random | July 24th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | shaunly | June 18th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matski | December 19th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Arone | May 22nd 14 |
| 3.0 good | Yotimi | September 9th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Bleak | September 1st 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Steedo | March 1st 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Foriar | February 25th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Jekub | February 24th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Opaque | February 23rd 12 |
| 4.5 superb | valrus | February 6th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | 32left | February 5th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | JPaller | December 27th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Wael | December 19th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Nat1Ka | March 21st 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | hankmac | March 17th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Smevin | May 4th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mendigo | January 25th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | NoiseIP | December 12th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | iranscam | November 25th 09 |
| 3.5 great | JoRos | August 8th 09 |
| 3.0 good | BSX | July 17th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Tjeerd | May 11th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | jrowa001 | December 27th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | kingsoby1 EMERITUS | December 8th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | DsRaMoS | April 11th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Windows | March 31st 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Steeed | March 7th 08 |
| 3.5 great | KINGGS | February 29th 08 |
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