Erykah Badu teases 'New Amerykah Part Two' with trippy, funky clip

Some rather strange and fairly awesome footage just appeared on Erykah Badu's official site...

Jan 29, 2010

Some rather strange and fairly awesome footage just appeared on Erykah Badu’s official site, right around the 3:33 P.M. Pacific time she’d instructed her Twitter followers to keep their eyes peeled.

You’ll want to click over to erykahbadu.com ASAP, but for the impatient, a summary: First the number 3 rushes at the screen, three times. Then comes a rush of assorted photos. (I spotted Hitler, Badu’s boyfriend Jay Electronica, and Bill O’Reilly in there.) Next, a quick clip of President Obama’s State of the Union speech from earlier this week transitions into what appears to be Badu, or someone, giving a spirited puppet show with two adorable felt creatures slipped over her hands. Soon a funky drumbeat kicks in, and a psychedelic kaleidoscope/Rorschach test takes up the screen. The funky beat becomes a funky song, featuring the refrain “I know you want to/Jump up in the air and stay there.” (I do, Erykah, I do!) The kaleidoscope thing reveals itself to be a distorted image of Badu herself. A dizzy rap verse occurs courtesy of Lil Wayne. At last, the clip concludes with a message: “NEW AMERYKAH / PART TWO: RETURN OF THE ANKH / 3.30.2010 AD / (MAYBE).”

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