Read All The Lyrics To Erykah Badu & The Alchemist’s New Album ‘Before The World Blows’
by Ken Partridge · GeniusMore than a decade after her last full-length project—the 2015 mixtape But You Caint Use My Phone—Erykah Badu is back with a new album, Before the World Blows. It’s a collaboration with acclaimed hip-hop producer The Alchemist, and it’s the result of the two linking up through a mutual friend. Alchemist had always wanted to work with Badu, and when the two convened at his L.A. studio, they found instant chemistry.
Before the World Blows features guest appearances from Steve Lacy, Thundercat, Earl Sweatshirt, Kamasi Washington, and Westside Gunn, among others. Much of the album centers on male-female relationship dynamics, a topic Badu has explored throughout her career.
“Some of these songs are autobiographical, and some of them are messages I want to give to my daughters, or the daughters of the world, to the people of the world who have to go through these initiations, too,” she told The Guardian.
As for the long gap in between albums, Badu says that’s an essential part of the process.
“Procrastinating and living, learning and stuff—that gives you stuff to write about,” she told The Guardian. “It’s important to gather the data, upload as much as I can. I don’t have a choice. But when the thing gets kind of full, I download it through writing music.”
Read all the lyrics to ‘Before the World Blows’ below.
- “Echos”
- “I Just Play A Part” ft. Westside Gunn, Creole Princess, Joi
- “Crossfade”
- “Witch Doctor”
- “Valentine” ft. DRAM
- “Next 2 U”
- “Love Me Not”
- “Breezy”
- “Abracadabra”
- “To The Moon (Plan C)” ft. Steve Lacy
- “They Ain’t You” ft. Thundercat
- “What The People Say (Apostle 1)”
- “Hot BiBi (Apostle 2)”
- “No I.D.” ft. Westside Gunn
- “I Know That Man” ft. Earl Sweatshirt
- “Black Box” ft. Kamasi Washington