| Baduizm | ||||
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| Studio album by Erykah Badu | ||||
| Released | February 11, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | January—October 1996 Battery Studios (New York, New York) Dallas Sound Lab (Dallas, Texas) Sigma Sounds & Ivory Studios (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
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| Genre | R&B, neo soul, jazz | |||
| Length | 58:15 | |||
| Label | Kedar/Universal | |||
| Producer | Madukwu Chinwah, Erykah Badu, John Meredith, James Poyser, The Roots | |||
| Erykah Badu chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [1] |
| Chicago Tribune | [2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | (A)[3] |
| Los Angeles Times | (favorable)[4] |
| Q | [5] |
| Rolling Stone | [6] |
| USA Today | [7] |
| Vibe | (favorable)[8] |
| The Village Voice | (favorable)[9] |
| Yahoo! Music | (favorable)[10] |
Baduizm is the debut album of R&B and neo soul musician Erykah Badu, released February 11, 1997 on Kedar Records.[11] Recording sessions for the album took place during January to October 1996 at Battery Studios in New York City, Sigma Sounds & Ivory Studios in Philadelphia, and Dallas Sound Lab in Dallas.[12] Production was handled by Badu, Madukwu Chinwah, John Meredith, James Poyser, and The Roots. Baduizm serves as a landmark album in the neo soul genre, as it helped develop its popularity and commercial visibility at the time of the album's release.
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Baduizm established Badu as a popular artist and received reviews lauding her return to the simplicity of early-1970s soul. (And, - "Like the conscious soul era it invoked - the Stevies , Slys and Marvins and Curtis Mayfields of the early '70s - its politics and social comment strived to be inclusive, to understand why a vicious, materialist attitude had permeated black culture since the Reagan '80s.") [13] Badu's original claim to fame was bass-heavy, groovy beats and emotionally charged lyrics. The most popular song from 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).
Baduizm's commercial and critical success earned Erykah Badu popularity at the time and helped establish her as one of the emerging neo soul genre's leading artists.[14] Along with D'Angelo's Brown Sugar (1995) and Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (1996), the album has been recognized by music writers for beginning neo soul's popularity and helping the genre obtain commercial visibility at the time.[15][16][17] Baduizm is listed as one of the 261 greatest albums since punk and disco (the year 1976), in the music critic Garry Mulholland's book Fear of Music (ISBN 0-75286-831-4). 'This record works as seduction soundtrack, Saturday night chill-out, Sunday morning church replacement. The success of Erykah Badu's masterpiece briefly threatened to inspire a new era in conscious soul. But only Lauryn Hill and D'Angelo were at her level. Baduizm stands alone, a missing link between '70s street funk, basement jazz, bohemian hip hop and the blues reinventions of Portishead."
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| Chart (1997) | Peak position |
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| Swedish Albums Chart[18] | 7 |
| UK Albums Chart[19] | 17 |
| US Billboard 200[20] | 2 |
| US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[21] | 1 |
| Year | Single | Chart | Peak |
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| 1997 | "On & On" | US Billboard Hot 100 | 12 |
| 1997 | "On & On" | US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | 1 |
| 1997 | "On & On" | US Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs | 3 |
| 1997 | "On & On" | US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales | 9 |
| 1997 | "On & On" | US Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 | 23 |
Grammy Awards
| Year | Song/Album | Category | Result |
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| 1998 | Baduizm | Best R&B Album | Won |
| "On & On" | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | Won | |
| Best R&B Song | Nominated | ||
| N/A | Best New Artist | Nominated |
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