Erykah Badu is working on a new album after 15 years

Erykah Badu is working on a new album after 15 years

After fifteen years Erykah Badu He is finally preparing a new album. This was revealed by the same 54 -year -old native musician of Dallas, Texas, during an interview with the American magazine Billboard. The album is produced by The Alchemistwho in the past worked with, among others, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Snoop Dogg And Ghostface Killah.

The disc is not yet ready, it does not have a title and a release date, Badu in Billboard said that “he is taking most of the time” and that “he can’t wait” to finish it.

Elsewhere during the interview he explained why so much time has passed between one album and the other: “In the last 25 years I take tours eight months a year. It is what I do. I am a performative artist. I am not a record artist. I come from the theater. There is the immediate reaction between you and the public, the immediate feeling. The point where you become a living organism and breathing with the people. Together.

His next album will be the first after “New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh” (Read the review here) released from 2010.