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Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of The Ankh

Andy Gill, The Independent, 26 March 2010

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, Erykah Badu's highly politicised psychedelic-soul opus New Amerykah Part One (4th World Order) raised hopes that the "conscious" arm of modern American R&B/hip-hop/ urban music might yet wield a revitalised power to offset that scene's depressingly negative tendencies.

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