Erykah Badu, Mos Def & Jay Electronica Perform Live in Concert Sept. 3rd
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Miles Nishioka | Staff Writer
The Ecstatic Tour flows through San Francisco on the night of Thursday, Sept. 3 at Davies Symphony Hall. The show includes highly regarded New York MC Mos Def, R&B superstar Erykah Badu, and the up-and-coming MC Jay Electronica.
Mos Def is a Grammy winning artist and activist from Brooklyn. He is known for MC-ing alongside Talib Kweli in a super group called BlackStar and doing his own solo work including albums “Black on Both Sides,” “The New Danger,” and “True Magic.” His most recent album “The Ecstatic” was released June 9, 2009. In the newest album, Mos Def continues his rhyming about current events such as “Workers Comp,” pushing forward using new technologies to mix beats for rhymes and songs.
Erykah Badu, who is originally from Dallas, has recently released her newest and most long-awaited album “New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War.” The album consists of songs closely related to R&B and funk with Erykah Badu singing lyrics that are written from her own thoughts. In an interview on the program “Rehearsal Space,” Badu explains her newest album as “the mental aspect of where I am” and that it is an album that she has wanted to make all her life, but only now had the time and technology to work on. The newest album from Badu is, as even she claims, her entrance into the future of technology. Badu explained how a majority of her ideas for the songs in “Part One” were recorded on the computer program Garage Band after her son had taught her how to use the program.
Jay Electronica is most known as a producer and MC from New Orleans. There is not a lot known about Electronica’s music simply because he has yet to complete and release a full album. Electronica is most known for “Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)” that was released on Myspace in 2007. This song consisted of 15 continuous minutes of music with no drums and Electronica’s raps over the background.
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