I find it fascinating to hear artists discussing their work – outside of promotion, with the clear objectivity only years passed can bring.
And so it’s with pleasure I share with you Erykah Badu’s ‘episode’. Here she reflects on her game-changing first album Buduizm – without question one of the most important contemporary Soul albums of the past 10+ years. Along with D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar, this was the birth of “Neo-Soul” and all it’s future forms & derivatives. Listen as the self proclaimed ‘Analogue Girl in a Digital World’ delves into the why her debut sounded the way it did, what her mind state was during that time and recalls her first encounter with The Roots & D’Angelo.
