We have a double dose of Erykah Badu to start the day. Above, get lost in the incredible, detailed, and attention grabbing official artwork for New Amerykah Part Two: Return of The Ankh. The cover was designed by Emek, who as you can probably tell designed her last cover, as well. Erykah also picked the perfect song to leak to aid the visual experience this cover creates, with the Madlib produced track "Strawberry Incense" (Kristen Agnesta on harp). Make sure to keep checking Badu's website for regular updates. E also encouraged her fans to tweet their own haikus about the song – check out her page, there are some pretty good ones on there. New Amerykah Part Two: Return of The Ankh will be in stores March 30th.
Erykah Badu "Strawberry Incense (prod. Madlib)"
I just love her…
this is a beautiful, hypnotic, enchanting song. can’t wait til the album drops!
much more interesting than the previous tracks. by the way, its not a fucking “leak” if the artist puts it out. why is the industry trying to market this phrase into a buzzword??
Incroyaaaaaaaable !!!!!
this beat is so sick…
feels like J Dilla was passing by the studio…
no download link?
feenin for this beat yooooooo
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Beautiful song. Madlib…you’re incredible!!!
Definitely a Madlib track feat. Erykah Badu. Perception is so interesting. Madlib could have dropped this on an instrumental album and….???? On Erykah Badu’s album, it will be called masterful, great, classic, beautiful…. Props to Erykah for letting an underappreciated great shine so hard. Keeping great music in the speakers.
Badu as usual delivers and don’t half step. I can’t wait to cop that album.
far out! i love it. makes me want to sit on my rug and light a doobie..
it felt like i was sailing the Nile for 3 mins, this joint needs to be @ least 6 1/2 mins long……the harp is so fresh!!!
Loving it! So different from anything she’s done before.
MAN… COT DAMN ERYKAH!!! LOVING IT!!! MADLIB… ALWAYS ON POINT… WATCHING WATCHING THE DILLA DOCUMENTARY… YOU CAN TELL NOW THAT MADLIB INFLUENCED DILLA CHANGED OF STYLE (I’M TALKING THE RAWNESS) AND VICE VERSA… CAN’T WAIT TILL 30TH OF MARCH HITS
WoW – I appreciate your comment and you are 110% right. Madlib and Erykah work wonders.
DOPENESS
what? track is nice with the harp and all but…?
We’ve already heard like 5 or 6 tracks from this album, and this one is the best there’s been so far. Maybe the album will be better from track 1 to the end, but for now, this really seems like her weakest album to date
this beat is amazing..the harp sounds dope..erykah badu really brought shine to this track..really digging this song..it does need to be longer though..
I hope the album is Lil Wayne free . I like the song up in the air , but do not dig lil wayne’s verse . He was not a goo d choice unless the goal is to be surface instead of substance
makes me wanna do drugs
I agree with BLaKscoTT extend this track so the ride down the nile can continue.
3 COPIES!! car, house and gonna give one to someone who has never heard an erykah album before. make this track longer!!
Dopeness! E always brings a new style with her flow.
not much to this track y’all, its another dragged out interlude on a short length album. Badu has been making these short albums with intrumentals since Worldwide Underground in 2003. Enough with the 40 minute albums with a ton of instrumentals, I want some real songs for chris sakes!!!
beat drops and i spark up a fat one – Madlib you got me stuck on that stay high.
the cover is dope. i’m digging that track. THE QUEEN DOES IT AGAIN…..
Mmouai… un skit, ok. Nice. But we need more “Window Seat” stuff!! NOW ! Or around march 30th !
Cheers
just a draged out interlude kinda weak not a proper song
Y do people always try to put artists in a little box? Stop looking for what your ear is used to and let the artist practice ARTISTRY… There will never be another Baduizm or Mamas Gun and Dilla is gone (God bless the dead). Ms. Badu is pure genuis as usual!
What a wonderful song to start the day. Ms. Badu, if I said it a million times it wouldn’t be enough..We love you
sounds wonderful
But this is just and interlude…the comments are unbelievable..I love Badu but is everyone just blown away by “new”
Sounds like a great interlude..
Fuckin DOPE! this is what the kid wants to hear!
Love it~~~
yeah, obviously Badu has no freaking clue what she is doing. I mean, we all got it figured out here on the internets…just wait till we all unleash this amazing music on everyone. It will be perfect and all the children will cry.
this > window seat > jump up in the air
Interlude or not, the harp and the bassline are the dopeness
Hotep!! 4 those that don’t ovastand where Ms. Badu is coming from, Peace. Whatever she builds, the masses will come.
Haiku:
the voice of Badu
like honey-rich reverie
relieves much ado
this is AMAZING!!!!! badu and madlib! sick!!!!
OKP think they slick they put a download link for ANYBODY elses music.. but not Ebadu! lolol.. support much
Off top I’m coppin’ this. This album WILL be anotha banga from BADU!
One of the few artist Ill spend my $$$ on. Everyone else gets the burnt treatment.. Big up Eryakah!
i dont car if the instruments do last for a min. them beats sound good, but when she comes in with whatever she has to say, it’s worth it. love you badu! you gets no bootleg!!
the art work is crazy. shout out to emik, i liked the art work.
Can you guess where part of my paycheck is going on March 30th?
Soooo….
Can any one translate whats being said towards the end??
I imagine that its Kemetic some how but I dont know…
There was an interlude on “Twinkle” on NewAmerykah too with the same kinda language…
Any ideas ??
the language at the end of the song is from a movie in 1985 called Enemy Mine featuring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gosset Jr. Dennis Quaid plays a human astronaut that crash lands on a alien planet and eventually befriends an alien (played by Louis Gosset Jr.). The language is the alien language of the Dracs spoken by LG Jr. If you really want to know more here is a website with all the info; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089092/. As far as translating goes, GOOD LUCK! KEEP IT HIP HOP ALIVE, PEACE, DA FILTHIE ONE
lol @KM, so true.
Everyone else gets the burnt treatment.. Big up Eryakah!
this post will be great
it is good, and i have never see.
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