Shabazz Palaces - Recollections of the Wraithĭonnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Just Wait Shabazz Palaces - Endeavors for Never (The last time we spoke you said you were not here. Shabazz Palaces - The Neurochem Mixalogue Vicki Gray - You're Slipping AwayĮffeminence (feat. Pharoahe Monch)īillie Holiday - Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do (1949)Ģ4 Carat Black ft. Keyon Harrold - Her Beauty Through My Eyes (feat. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Willingīridge Through Time – Lonnie Liston Smithĭigable Planets - The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug Time & Space (A New Refutation Of) - Digable Planetsĭonnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Something Came To MeĪin't Nothin' Wrong – KC & The Sunshine Band Of course we talked about Digable Planets, Cherrywine, Knife Knights, and Shabazz Palaces productions.įollow Follow or (All funds from store directly benefits this podcast's sustainability)įind tune sample playlist (and more) on Apple Music & Spotify or Samples:ĭigable Planets - Cool like dat (instrumental) - Digable Planets Then she performed these other songs in a dazed chronological order: “Love of my life”, “Apple Tree”, “Umm Hmm”, “I want you”, “Danger”, “Next Lifetime”, “Soldier.Season SIX opening interview with rapper and producer Ishmael Butler talked a whole lotta Jazz, it’s pioneers, and his influences including the many things his father Reginald Butler imparted to him. The first song she finished was “Out My Mind, Just in Time.” Then, she sang “On and On” and “… & On” and I quickly zoned out, enchanted by the groove of the bass and the magic of Badu’s voice. She opened with the melody of “Tyrone”, but didn’t finish it and gracefully transitioned to “Hello”, which she also didn’t finish. She doesn't give a sh** and being around that energy is so empowering.īadu’s set was a beautiful sonic hodgepodge of some of her hit songs. She owned her eccentricity, reminding me that it’s alright to be who you are, even if that means you don’t fit in a pack, even if society doesn’t get you. But she was so comfortable and confident with this ambiguity. Badu’s too black to be white and too white to be black. Part of her 20th anniversary tour, the concert was sweet, soulful, mystical and gangsta all at once. Because music was never about limiting oneself with just one genre, or hanging out with the cool kids, or belonging to a clique. I felt like a glitch.īut on Saturday, at the last stop of Erykah Badu VS Everythang Tour 2017 A.D., I realized, I was alright. There came a point when I felt like I had a serious identity crisis. There were discriminating stereotypes and I never quite fit into any of the labels. I didn’t think it unusual to be able to vibe out on different things, until high school defined the hierarchies of cool. Growing up in the ‘90s, I liked and listened to a lot of genres and artists – Spice Girls, Bred, Deftones, Jeff Buckley, Pearl Jam, Lauryn Hill, Erkah Badu, FrancisM. It’s hearing an artist take a piece of their soul and you, the listener receiving it. It sounded like a prayer, and I felt: This. After zoning out, watching, dancing, and vibing it out to the neo soul goddess singing her classics “On and On…& On”, “I want you,” Love of my life”, and “Tyrone” to name a few, I stood still entranced as she closed the concert with an acapella of a poetic mishmash. Last Saturday, at Erykah Badu’s concert, a few loose personal ends finally got tied up.