Erykah Badu & The Alchemist - Before the World Blows

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180 GRAM VINYL LP (Pre-order now, out 11-12-2026)

In a world that constantly pushes us to inherit someone else's way of thinking, the only true constant is the self. Yet even the self is never fixed. Eleven years since her last project, Erykah Badu returns not with conclusions, but with a series of existential insights.

Before the World Blows: The Abi and Alan Experiment exists within the tension between introspection and growth. Recorded over 18 months in Dallas and Los Angeles, the album marks the collision of two iconoclasts: Badu (Abi) and The Alchemist (Alan).

The result is hypnotic, blunt, deeply personal, and impossible to categorize.

Tracklist

01 Echos
02 I Just Play A Part
03 Crossfade [ft. DJ Creole Princess, Westside Gunn, Joi]
04 Witch Doctor
05 Valentine [ft. DRAM]
06 Next 2 U
07 Love Me Not 8. Breezy
08. Abracadabra
10 To The Moon (Plan C) [ft. Steve Lacy]
11 They Ain’t You [ft. Thundercat]
12 What The People Say (Apostle 1)
13 Hot BiBi (Apostle 2)
14 No I.D. [ft. Westside Gunn]
15 I Know That Man [ft. Earl Sweatshirt]
16 Black Box [ft. Kamasi Washington]