Erykah Badu is lastly readying her first album in over a decade – discover out extra under.
In a brand new interview with Billboard, Badu revealed that she’s bene arduous at work within the studio, the place she’s recording on her first studio album in 15 years. The album is being produced solely by The Alchemist, who has previously labored with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Snoop Dogg, Ghostface Killah and extra.
Whereas the album isn’t carried out and hasn’t obtained a title or launch date, Erykah Badu has informed Billboard that it’s “taking on most of her time” and that she “can’t wait” till it’s carried out.
Elsewhere through the chat, Badu defined why it’s been so lengthy between albums: “I tour eight months out of the 12 months for the previous 25 years. That’s what I do. I’m a efficiency artist. I’m not a recording artist. I come from the theater.”
She continued: “It’s the fast response between you and the viewers and the fast feeling. The purpose the place you turn into one dwelling, respiration organism with individuals. That’s what I reside for. It’s my remedy. And theirs, too. We’re in it collectively. And I like the concept that it occurs solely as soon as.”
Her upcoming album will probably be her first since 2010’s ‘New Amerykah, Half II: Return Of The Ankh’. That report scored a four-star overview from NME: “‘…Half II’ is an altogether extra private and laidback affair, involved with romance and feelings. The phrase ‘love’ options closely, in titles and in lyrics, and it appears to have relaxed her, although there are flashes of doubt that reduce via the smoothness.”
Early subsequent month, Badu will probably be one in all a number of rap and R&B icons acting at J. Cole’s ultimate version of the Dreamville pageant. Different acts embrace Cole himself, Lil Wayne, Ludacris and extra.
