Erykah Badu: New Amerykah, Part One

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Contents: Amerykahn promise — The healer/hip hop — Me — My people — Soldier — The cell — Twinkle — Master teacher — That hump — Telephone — Honey (bonus track).
Ben Sisario wrote in the New York Times: "Simon Wright, chief executive of the Virgin Entertainment Group North America, said that over the last four or five years music sales had gone from being 70 percent of the stores’ total to less than 40 percent. … He added that the future of Virgin’s Union Square location was up in the air; though profitable, he said, the store is just too big for the current market. Whatever people buy there, the store is doing a brisk business. It buzzed with shoppers on Sunday afternoon. Some of them, like Kim Zeller, a 37-year-old clothing designer pushing a baby carriage, said that buying music on the Internet just can’t compare to the experience of browsing in a store — and getting out of the house. 'It kind of gets boring when you’re trapped inside listening to music from your computer,' said Ms. Zeller, who had bought new CDs by Erykah Badu and the Black Keys" (4/18/08).