Badu in Lagos!

Wow... Is it time for the This Day Awards time again already?

Looks like this year Erykah is headlining... Sure wish I be there to catch the show, but who am I kidding? They wouldn't let me into the This Day Awards even if I were to make it to Lagos this weekend.


That poster is kinda meh, though. Would've been cool if EMEK could have designed it. He's been handling most of Badu's graphics these days, including the New Amerykah album cover.

Check out this awesome metallic ink poster he did for her recent Tel Aviv gig:

Erykah Badu stays being the shit

Apart from Cody ChesnuTT, she remains my favorite contemporary artist working in the R&B/soul idiom, or whatever you want to call it. Sure, in recent years she has pulled a couple of stunts that have made me slightly question my devotion for her, but in the end, her wit, her creativity, her fearlessness, her goddamn flyness have always won me over.

One thing I've always loved from her right from the beginning is that she's a much underrated conceptualist and director of music videos, and I'm feeling her new one, "Honey":



The compositing seems just a teensy bit dodgy, but man, she is so fly.

And maybe I'm too much of a record store nerd, but I'm tickled pink (not literally, obviously) by all the cratedigger culture inside jokes and shout outs in there.

I wonder if MTV and BET will even bother to play this.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to her upcoming album, New Amerykah.