Reacting to "Baduizm" by Erykah Badu

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21 Savage - Without Warning
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Trying
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders
Ab Soul - Control System
A$AP Rocky - Live.Love.A$AP
Baby Keem - The Melodic Blue
Backxwash - I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES
Beyonce - Lemonade, RENAISSANCE
Billy Woods - Maps
BROCKHAMPTON - Saturation
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Creepin on Ah Come Up
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
Chief Keef - Finally Rich
Childish Gambino - Because the Internet
Clipping. - There Existed an Addiction to Blood
Common - Be
Conway the Machine - God Don’t Make Mistakes
D’Angelo - VooDoo
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition, XXX, uknowhatimsayin, Quaranta
De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
Death Grips - The Money Store, Exmilitary, Bottomless Pit
Denzel Curry - Taboo, Unlocked!, Melt My Eyez See Your Future
DMX - It’s Dark and Hell is Hot
Doja Cat - Scarlet
Drake - Take Care, Reading This/Too Late, Nothing Was the Same
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris, IDLSIDGO, Some Rap Songs, Solace
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Frank Ocean - Blonde, Channel Orange
Freddie Gibbs - Pinata
Future - DS2
Ice Cube - Amerikkka’s Most Wanted
Ice Spice - Like..?
Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
J Cole - 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 4 Your Eyez Only
J Dilla - Donuts
Jay Z - Blueprint, Reasonable Doubt, Watch the Throne, 4:44
Joey Bada$$ - 1999
JID - The Never Story, The Forever Story, Dicaprio 2
JPEGMAFIA - Veteran, All My Heroes Are Cornballs, LP!, Scaring The Hoes
Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai
Kanye - College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation, 808s & Heartbreak, MBDTF, Yeezus, Life of Pablo, Ye
Ken Carson - A Great Chaos
Kendrick - Section.80, Good Kid Mad City, To Pimp a Butterfly, DAMN, Untitled Unmastered, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
Kenny Beats - Louie
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon
Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
Killer Mike - Michael
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of
Lil Uzi Vert - Pink Tape
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter, Tha Carter II
Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, Grey Area, NO THANK YOU
Lucki - Watch My Back
Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
Mac Miller - Swimming, Circles
Mckinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
Metro Boomin - Heroes & Villains
MF DOOM - Madvillainy, Mm Food
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Mick Jenkins - The Patience
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Mos Def, Talib Kweli - Black Star
Nas - Illmatic
Nicki Minaj - Pink Print, Pink Friday, Pink Friday 2
NONAME - Telefone
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
On Man - Self Titled
Outkast - Southernplaya, ATLiens, Aquemini, Stankonia
Pierre Bourne - TLOP4
Playboi Carti - Die Lit, Whole Lotta Red
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions
Pusha T - Daytona
Richie Russo - Make Believe
Rihanna - ANTI
Run the Jewels - RTJ1, RTJ2, RTJ3
Slowthai - Ugly
Smino - Luv 4 Rent
SZA - CTRL, SOS
Teezo Touchdown - How Do You Sleep at Night
Teyana Taylor - KTSE
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
The Weeknd - House of Balloons, Thursday, Echoes of Silence
Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez
Thundercat - Drunk
Travis Scott - Astroworld, Rodeo, Utopia
Tupac - Me Against the World, All Eyez On Me
Tyler the Creator - IGOR, Flower Boy, Call Me if You Get Lost (The Estate Sale)
UGK - Ridin’ Dirty
Vince Staples - Hell Can Wait, Big Fish Theory
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers, Liquid Swords, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Yeat - Afterlyfe
Youngboy NBA - AI Youngboy 2, 3800 Degrees
Young Thug - Barter 6
This is my first time listen and reaction to the album "Baduizm" by Erykah Badu. Enjoy!
0:00:00 - Opening Thoughts
0:04:15 - Rimshot (Intro)
0:07:00 - On & On
0:15:25 - Appletree
0:22:30 - Otherside of the Game
0:33:35 - Sometimes (Mix #9)
0:34:15 - Next Lifetime
0:44:20 - Afro (Freestyle Skit)
0:45:05 - Certainly
0:55:05 - 4 Leaf Clover
0:59:45 - No Love
01:05:50 - Drama
01:18:15 - Sometimes
01:24:10 - Certainly (Flipped It)
01:28:25 - Rimshot (Outro)
01:30:00 - Closing Thoughts

[@izefreeze]

I didn't see this reaction coming. This album is a classic, so glad you're letting yourself experience it.

[@izefreeze]

Side note: I think Baduism is the better album than Mama's Gun. The vibes are better.

[@Blankspace-unrelated-to-song]

@@izefreezeNew AmErykah part 2 is better than both tbh

[@ugonwigwe5136]

agreed. this is her masterpiece for me

[@ryansavoie5380]

you gotta do a Sade album soon!!!!!

[@dean-hx3ds]

Facts

[@bobthepoppop]

I think I'll get there eventually, I only hear good things

[@joemomma6317]

YES BRO. sade is an R&B Goat

[@pickenchews]

This album was during her relationship with Andre 3000 (they have a child together). Her Common era came after.

[@mast3rtadp0l33]

he's finally getting into badu!! love to see it!

[@Sergiooo.]

Would you tap Franky if he gave you an offer

[@mast3rtadp0l33]

@@Sergiooo. 😨

[@nathengonzalez2787]

​@@Sergiooo.I would

[@everett_3]

Paul George recognition comment

[@theglockenspiel]

I don’t get it

[@aze4964]

what a reference

[@boubacardiallo5945]

Not on this album

[@bxmbsaqt2791]

@@theglockenspiel In the PG fanbase people put his highlights with EB’s music to promote that he moves with rhythm n shi like dat. It’s one of those “if you know you know moments”

[@codejjm]

Booker’s son

[@issacbollers7435]

VERY surprised to see you react to this absolute MASTERPIECE. Thank you for this

[@pickenchews]

"Next Lifetime" is such an important song imo, because there aren't many songs or creative works that provide a healthy cognitive channel for strong feelings you shouldn't act on. This fills that role, and I think there should be more songs like it. It provides a vessel in which to let hazardous feelings drift away, like those candles in a lake.

[@bobthepoppop]

Yup, I totally agree

[@KuntryFowle]

Very very good point

[@pickenchews]

@@KuntryFowle thank you 🍻

[@KuntryFowle]

@@pickenchews 🍶🍻 listening to this song again now I have the epitome of respect for Erykah’s line : “ I know I’m a lot of woman but not enough to divide the pie”

[@pickenchews]

@@KuntryFowle she's an absolutely brilliant songwriter

[@DawryMike]

The Queen of Neo-Soul

[@WittynotSilly]

Might as well do maxwell he's part of the big 3 of neo soul.. d'angelo , maxwell and ms badu

[@deensyed786]

Brilliant album but Mama’s Gun is somehow better for me. I think it’s the influence of soulquarians like J Dilla that made it so special.

[@MemeLord42069]

Bobuizm 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@derikferreira7436]

React to SADE discography, it is one of the best bands and has several classic hits. They have 6 albums released Diamond life (1984) Promise ( (1985) Love is stronger than pride (1988) Love Deluxe ( 1992) Lovers Rock (2000) Soldier of love (2010)

[@perseusperez1037]

Rimshot also exists in music. It’s when a drummer hits the rim of the drums. It’s the sound you hear on 2 and 4 on the intro

[@marvfromthecity]

I literally just rolled one and this reaction dropped, perfect timing lol

[@justinhurst3179]

Fun fact: Mac Miller sampled On & On for the song Self Care. It’s the part where she says “I was born underwater with three dollars and six dimes.” You can hear the word dollars throughout the first half of Self Care. The Dissect podcast also does a great job of showing how this sample ties into the album

[@cm9241]

This may be my favorite Erykah album. The live album is one of the best live albums ever. Love Mama's Gun too.

[@chrisso7825]

It’s pronounced BAH-DUU

[@bobthepoppop]

Thank you 😊

[@deensyed786]

Loving the DOOM shirt Bob please don’t forget about the villain😢it’s been like 438 months since Mm… Food

[@jmg8730]

The Otherside of the Game is about her carrying Andre 3000 from OutKast and her first child.

[@brothercinnamon2479]

It is not. Listen to the lyrics, not about him at all

[@adamzane6141]

Was not expecting this reaction but this album fucking slaps

[@guywithlaptop1]

You have no idea how happy this makes me Bob. Erykah Badu the one

[@razatiger22]

This is one of my favorite albums ever created EVER. It is hypnotic and powerful and Badu's voice sounds like she came straight from the 30s. I know it cliche to say this about a musician but I view this women as a demigod of music, its like art at its finest form to me.

[@SoundDisconnected]

Bob Power is the engineer who helped A Tribe Called Quest and D’Angelo shape their sounds

[@grilla4464]

On "the other side of the game" you pointed out that the lyric "pressure on me but the seed has grown" possibly alludes to her being pregnant, in which case I'd assume that the following lyrics about the flowers blooming in the summer is her having the child, him being the sun and her the moon alluding to their newfound positions as father and mother respectively, the precious gifts are the child and their newfound family, and the question of make-believe is questioning the stability and legitimacy of what they've created together given his "complex occupation" that the family depends on, but that also hurts the family.

[@wasnotlucky]

THIS IS A W BOB!!!!!

[@philjon]

This album was before Common she was with Andre 3000 from OutKast then until 1999 they have a kid together. She started dating Common in 2000

[@sondersnephew4840]

Debut is always classics

[@jsan3676]

I would love your reaction “Diamond life” by Sade if you’re going this route😮‍💨😮‍💨

[@FrogeFella]

I saw Badu live over a year ago and it was an AMAZING show, definitely the best singing I have ever heard live. A lot of her music was the soundtrack to my childhood because my mom would always play it in the car.

[@ToBeKing]

The reviews on this album is 9.5. So I’m looking forward to hearing this.

[@noble1040]

We will get cilvia demo one day😔 but shoutout erykah badu this a great project fr

[@guccibane3422]

That would be a great album after this one

[@mikemr..3602]

Hadn't played this one in awhile...almost 4 got how beautiful her vocals are ...I remember melting when I 1st pushed ▶️ jus like BoB

[@kimtoncoleman8934]

Next lifetime is a masterpiece!

[@enzyme3254]

Bob your insights as of late have been soul soothing, killer analysis here

[@toejoe]

yoo currently working on deadlines for college looking for something to watch in the background !! blessed by bob with the best reaction of all time

[@pickenchews]

Oh man, I'm super excited for this one! Also, I know you really like live music. She recorded a dope live album with a band, called "Live" after this album and before Mama's Gun. So good!

[@tsunamipapi1343]

THAT MAN THAT KNOWS SOMETHING KNOWS THAT HE KNOWS NOTHING AT ALL . great album, Rim Shot 2 Appletree is an insane three track run, just elite

[@josephcruz669]

Awesome job on the reaction!

[@youmayknowmeas2an]

didn't know you were going to review this masterpiece. Without watching yet I already know you'll love it.

[@seanjjpaul]

Need that cilvia demo and it was written!! Great reaction as always Bob!!

[@TheRulerRoderickSutton]

Badu was with Andre 3000 at this time.

[@loopkng3961]

Thanks for reviewing this one!!! It's one of my fav albums ever ❤

[@aze4964]

37:15 I love how much you love your wife man. Hopefully one day I will find someone who I can talk about like that 🙏

[@demarkodorham8104]

One of my fav albums. Thanks for reacting!!!

[@MaoriNative_NZ]

Thanks for reacting broooo, love u g❤🎉

[@bboyshotty]

CLASSIC!! One of my all time favorite albums period!! Lets see how well this goes haha..DEFINITELY do both though

[@baddielonglegs]

i was not expecting this reaction lmaooo great album choice

[@Soupytimeee]

This is cool for me because I just bought the vinyl for this and listened for the first time less than a month ago and now this video comes out.

[@saintjohn3720]

Great reaction Bob. Cant wait for you to hear Mama's Gun. Also, check out her song Tyrone, it was on the live version of Baduizm.

[@ducktor_j]

You should check out Mr. Hood by KMD. KMD was the group DOOM started in with his brother and friend back in the early 90s. They put one album out (Mr. Hood) in 1993 before the tragic passing of DOOM’s brother Subroc. They then got dropped by their label and disbanded. DOOM re-emerged years later to drop Doomsday and became the MF DOOM you know. He also dropped another KMD album in 2000 called Black Bastards (also great) that was mostly complete but never dropped back when they were still together.

[@INCRYPTIDFORM]

He still hasn’t even heard Operation Doomsday yet tho lol

[@coreyspencer-jj9hx]

You should have reviewed this with your wife. She would have enjoyed it as well.

[@bigahmed6736]

Love you BOB

[@PSP839]

Hopefully you'll manage to react to D'Angelo's other 2 albums; Brown Sugar and Black Messiah. You'll definitely enjoy both of them

[@wolfvirgo5130]

One of my favourite albums. Her music is so soothing to listen to and the bass lines are incredible

[@ricochetsixtyten]

You reminded me how great this album is! Otherside and Next Lifetime are so good!

[@hoos3014]

That horn from "Other Side of the Game" is that Herb Alpert trumpet.

[@jasonhart1079]

Classic! Really hope you enjoy this

[@angelawhite1347]

Love to see You reacting to Erykah Badu; more Erykah Badu and also some Jill Scott would be Great too.🔥🔥🔥

[@RatchedCypher]

I forgot about this album. thanks Bob for bringing it back to light

[@Z33Nwa]

The ones with high play counts are pretty heavily featured in hip hop samples so get coverage across playlists. Absolutely love the range in your reactions. Mostly my taste but when it’s not, it will be soon enough. Thanks Bob 🙏🏼

[@jonfriktion07]

Got so excited when i saw this in my recommended

[@madeithere8775]

You should check out “The Velvet Rope” by Janet Jackson. Also an R&B album from 1997, but leans more into dance-pop and electronica than Baduizm, but still with some thought provoking subject matter.

[@tsunamipapi1343]

great album, great artist . real music

[@angeluv2010]

I had to comment again. I absolutely love this entire album. 4 leaf clover is my absolute favorite on thos album.

[@notthatbad8]

Let me roll up and watch this. Love Badu!

[@derbistheeternal2947]

Love this album

[@devonsmith668]

Both this and mamas gun are amazing

[@hoos3014]

The annotations are hilarious.

[@lydiawilder5996]

You should react to her other project Mama's Gun

[@hjkkghjk6988]

Queen Badu !!! Mama’s Gun next

[@jonathan305wilson1]

😭😭need her to drop ONE MORE TIME

[@PeaceOutNewYork]

Bob I’ve been loving your content for a while. I would love to see you react to Infinite Possibilities by Amel Larrieux. I feel like if you enjoyed baduizm, then you are most likely going to really enjoy this album too. It’s a hidden gem and might be a first listen for a lot of your viewers too. Take care of yourself 🙏🏾

[@effer3]

My favorite Badu here. Great from start to finish.

[@angeluv2010]

So glad I found your channel. I absolutely love how open you are to all genres. This is my favorite neo soul slightly above Jill Scott. I don't know if you've done a video for her but if you haven't, will you consider "Who is Jill Scott"

[@thermitemound8754]

I actually prefer this to Mama's Gun, both are so so smooth tho

[@CitizenScorn]

Finally got to see the Queen in Phoenix last year, and MY GAWD. She was perfect and still absolutely gorgeous. Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) opened. 20th row dead center on the floor. An amazing night I'll always cherish. 🤘

[@roshodsingleton1615]

She has a son with Andre 3000

[@joviandamien]

you’re so goated for listening to this , hope you consider her others some day 🤍

[@choppawontmiss7065]

Ahhh bob, welcome to the queen

[@fornikolas]

Great pick.

[@siedutchez8558]

Her Live show is the most amazing show ever!!!❤

[@nekelaznup4644]

HOLY SHIT BOB THIS WAS NOT WHAT WE DESERVED BUT DEFINETELY WHAT I NEEDED

[@zshakur]

This album launched an entire movement. There's no "Mama's Gun" without "Baduizm". This album is a CLASSIC!!

[@Jcvt-zm9tt]

Would love to see you do more mick Jenkins, just saw you react to the Patience album and hit that like and sub button great videos keep it up

[@l0tso75]

Mamas gun is my favorite album ever but im glad youre starting with Erykah here!

[@ryguy3212]

You should start polls that people vote on for album reactions

[@Goatchild90]

Late but I just wanted to say one of my favourite albums

[@nathengonzalez2787]

YEAH BOB POWER!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@Mark.mp3]

NOW THIS IS SOME GOOD FOOD 😋😋

[@BlakeandRyanVa]

Man my parents played this for me as a kid this was amazing album from start to finish

[@jasonrodgers5533]

-Bob Power is a big engineer at this time. Tribe, De La , The Roots and other hip-hop groups used him a lot. A Tribe Called Quest even included his name in the song "The Chase, Pt II"............. Q-Tip says "Bob Power, you there?" and he responds with a "Yeah?" in the song -Great album -4 Leaf Clover is a remake of the song "Touch A 4 Leaf Clover" by Atlantic Starr -when playing dominos, you score in multiples of 5, she was saying when someone play big 6 (double sided 6) if you play a 6:3 domino, you'll get 15 points (you count the outside edges of the dominos, so since big 6 which is 12 and 6:3, put 3 on the outside, 12+3 =15... score!!!!!).... love dominos -This album along with D'Angelo' - "Brown Sugar", Maxwell - "Urban Hang Suite" and a couple of others ushered in the so-called "Neo Soul" era. A lot of folks hate that term, but it kind of described the sound, which I kind of associated it with a "live band/smokey bar/mellow hip-hop..soul" sound. At least that's what I always visualized. It was a great time in music...... heavy Rhodes keyboards, snare, rimshot, horns and bass guitar and standing bass sounds

[@emilylincoln6168]

This is a REALLY niche recommendation but Space 1.8 by Nala Sinephro is one of my favorite albums in the last few years! Ambient! May be weird for a reaction video but if you haven’t heard of it, you will probably enjoy!

[@phaze3247]

Bob might have like the best album selections

[@dizzle522]

Apple tree was an album cut...ALL these was fire...I was 20 when this came out...STILL listen to it....

[@radiofreeastrocast3010]

You are wearing a MF Doom shirt. I just need one like to give you a great story about him. Erika blew us away. I was listening to Ella and Josephine and Glaydis when my buddy put this album in my hand as a thank you for getting him into Soul music.

[@TeeJai601]

Touch A Four Leaf Clover is a cover from the group Atlantic Star

[@pickenchews]

This album reminds me I'd love to see you get into some 70s jazz fusion. Erykah's music tends to feel so inspired by artists like Donald Byrd, Bobbi Humphrey, Herbie Hancock, etc

[@MarLikeIt]

Would be cool to catch Bob at a Eryka Badu concert lol

[@AugustRose]

The story of the "The Other Side of the Game " is a thing. You have to listen to Danger from her Worldwide Underground (2003) album and Gone Baby, Gone Baby. Don't be Long from New Amerykah part 2 (2010). It's a trilogy about a woman in a complex relationship with a man that hustles on the wrong side of the law. When she did The Other Side Of The Game she was pregnant with her first born Seven Sirius and she was with his father Andre 3000. 3000 is featured in the video as her partner (he was her man at the time). But I don't think the lyrics are specifically about their situation. She's just illustrating this emotional conflict of loving someone who is taking unnecessary risks. I love Erykah Badu. I've been listening to her music since 1997 and even though she is 12 years older than I am, when I've gotten to the age range she was in when she wrote each of the songs (I mean each and every one), the lyrics take on a deeper meaning. The wisdom walks instep with the music and they endure with time.

[@Prod.Ctlyst]

Hi Bob I love ur vids