“Badu is my last name, ‘izm’ is what should get you high and Baduizm [is] the things that get me high. Lighting a candle, loving life, knowing myself, knowing my creator, loving them both … Using my melanin. Using my power, to get to where I need to go to do the creator’s workthats what Im here for. And Im still fly.'” Erykah Badu

To me, this quote perfectly encapsulates what Badu has achieved on this album. An empowered black woman creating a piece of work that penetrated mainstream music and R&B with a genre dubbed as Neo-Soul. With hits like On & On bringing Badu to wider public attention, Badu came out victorious by blurring the lines between jazz, soul, and R&B and thus inspiring a Neo-Soul movement in her wake.”

– Macie Spear & Jannet Talat

Tracklist:

A1. Rimshot (Intro)
A2. On & On
A3. Appletree
A4. Otherside Of The Game
B1. Sometimes (Mix #9)
B2. Next Lifetime
B3. Afro (Freestyle Skit)
B4. Certainly
C1. 4 Leaf Clover
C2. No Love
C3. Drama
D1. Sometimes…
D2. Certainly (Flipped It)
D3. Rimshot (Outro)