New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh

A soul torch singer with her (broken) heart in hip-hop, Erykah Badu has shifted from the political fire of 2008's Part One to this introspective collection of fragmented love songs. The beats sputter and lope unpredictably, but her smoldering murmur holds it together.

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