Erykah Badu’s 1997 debut, Baduizm, established her as the undisputed champion of left-eld R&B. She’d eventually be crowned QUEEN OF NEO-SOUL, but she was making vocal spiritual jazz that you could feel and move to more than anything. And, in a short three years after Baduizm’s release, Badu’s follow up would stretch even those boundaries. It’s 1998. After accolades, tours and the birth of her first child, Erykah Badu is working on new music; writing here and there, while at home or traveling. She began recording a few tracks in Dallas in 1999 and, by early 2000, when the project really began to take shape, she decided to move things to the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York’s Greenwich Village. It was one of the few remaining studios that could give her the warm, analog s...