Baduizm

Infobox Album |
Name = Baduizm
Type = Studio album
Artist = Erykah Badu


Released = February 11, 1997
Recorded = 1996, Battery Studios
(New York, New York)
Dallas Sound Lab
(Dallas, Texas)
Sigma Sounds & Ivory Studios
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre = Neo soul, R&B, hip-hop
Length = 58:15
Label = Kedar, Universal Motown
Producer = Madukwu Chinwah
Erykah Badu
John Meredith
James Poyser
The Roots
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7gx7gjuro6ix~T1 link]
*"Entertainment Weekly" (A) [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1202525/a/Baduizm.htm link]
*"Q" rating|4|5 [http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1202525/a/Baduizm.htm link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/erykahbadu/albums/album/232062/review/5946591/baduizm link]
*Yahoo! Music (favorable) [http://uk.music.yahoo.com/read/review/12062557 link]
Last album =
This album = "Baduizm"
(1997)
Next album = "Live"
(1997)

"Baduizm" is the debut album of neo soul singer Erykah Badu, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music). "Baduizm" established Badu as a popular artist and received reviews lauding her return to the simplicity of early-1970s soul. Though she has since become known as much for her sometimes extravagant pseudo-traditional African fashion, Badu's original claim to fame was bass-heavy, groovy beats and emotionally charged lyrics. The most popular song off the album, which led to her subsequent fame, was "On & On". On July 17, 2007, a special edition of "Baduizm" was released which contains the original album plus a bonus CD which contains different versions on "On & On", "Appletree", "Next Lifetime", and "A Child With the Blues" (originally featured in the film "Eve's Bayou").

Track listing

#"Rimshot (Intro)" (Erykah Badu, Madukwu Chinwah) - 1:56
#"On & On" (Badu, Jaborn Jamal) - 3:45
#"Appletree" (Badu, Robert Bradford) - 4:25
#"Otherside of the Game" (Badu, Bro ?uestlove, Richards Nichols, James Poyser, The Roots) - 6:33
#"Sometimes... [Mix #9] " (Badu, Nichols, Poyser, The Roots) - 0:44
#"Next Lifetime" (Badu, A. Scott) - 6:26
#"Afro" (Badu, Jahphar Barron, Poyser) - 2:04
#"Certainly" (Badu, Chinwah) - 4:43
#"4 Leaf Clover" (David Lewis, Wayne Lewis) - 4:34
#"No Love" (Badu, Bradford) - 5:08
#"Drama" (Badu, Ty Macklin) - 6:02
#"Sometimes..." (Badu, Nichols, Poyser, The Roots) - 4:10
#"Certainly [Flipped It] " (Badu, Chinwah) - 5:26
#"Rimshot (Outro)" (Badu, Chinwah) - 2:19

Personnel

*Erykah Badu - keyboard, vocals, background vocals
*Ron Carter - bass
*Madukwu Chinwah - voices
*Ike Lee III - keyboard
*N'Dambi - voices
*Bob Power - guitar, keyboard, multiple instruments
*Tone Da Backbone - multiple instruments

Additional personnel

*Producers: Erykah Badu, Jahphar Barron, Robert Bradford, Madukwu Chinwah, Jaborn Jamal, Ike Lee III, John Meredith, Richard Nichols, Bob Power, James Poyser, The Roots, Tone Da Backbone
*Executive producer: Kedar Massenburg
*Engineers: Lee Anthony, Tim Donovan, Michael Gilbert, Dave Ivory, Anthony Lee, Bob Power, Frank Salazar, Chris Trevett
*Assistant engineers: Tim Donovan, Sharon Kearney, Charles McCrorey, John Meredith
*Mixing: Ken Ifill, Tim Latham, Bob Power
*Mixing assistants: Martin Czembor, Tim Donovan, Paul Shatraw
*Programming: Erykah Badu, Ike Lee III, Bob Power, Tone Da Backbone
*Drum programming: Erykah Badu, John Meredith
*Art direction: Sandie Lee Drake
*Design: Susan Bibeau
*Photography: Marc Baptiste
*Stylist: Andrew Dosunmu

Charts

Album