Baduizm

Baduizm is a nu soul album by Erykah Badu, released on February 11, 1997 (see 1997 in music). Her debut album, Baduizm establish Badu as a popular artist, as well as receiving reviews lauding her return to the simplicity of early-1970s soul. Though she has since become known as much for her sometimes extravagant pseudo-traditional African fashion, Badu's original claim to fame was bass-heavy, groovy beats and emotionally charged lyrics.

Baduizm went to #1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, and #2 on the Pop Albums chart.

Table of contents

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Charting singles

Track listing

Rimshot (Intro) (Badu/Chinwah) - 1:56
On & On (Badu/Jamal) - 3:45
Apple Tree (Badu/Bradford) - 4:25
Other Side of the Game (Badu/Bro ?uestlove/Nichols/Poyser/Roots) - 6:33
Sometimes [Mix #9] (Badu/Nichols/Poyser/Roots) - :44
Next Lifetime (Badu/Scott) - 6:26
Afro (Badu/Barron/Poyser) - 2:04
Certainly (Badu/Chinwah) - 4:43
4 Leaf Clover (Lewis/Lewis) - 4:34
No Love (Badu/Bradford) - 5:08
Drama (Badu/Macklin) - 6:02
Sometimes (Badu/Nichols/Poyser/Roots) - 4:10
Certainly [Flipped It] (Badu/Chinwah) - 5:26
Rimshot (Outro) (Badu/Chinwah) - 2:19

Personnel

Ron Carter - Bass
Lee Anthony - Engineer
Martin Czembor - Mixing Assistant
Ike Lee Ill - Keyboards, Programming, Producer
Dave Ivory - Engineer
Tim Latham - Mixing
Kedar Massenburg - Executive Producer
Bob Power - Guitar, Keyboards, Programming, Multi Instruments, Producer, Engineer, Mixing
James Poyser - Producer
Frank Salazar - Engineer
Chris Trevett - Engineer
Ken Ifill - Mixing
Robert Bradford - Producer
Richard Nichols - Producer
The Roots - Producer
Jahphar Barron - Producer
Michael Gilbert - Engineer
Erykah Badu - Keyboards, Programming, Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Producer, Drum Programming
Anthony Lee - Engineer
Charles McCrorey - Assistant Engineer
Tim Donovan - Engineer, Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
Paul Shatraw - Mixing Assistant
Madukwu Chinwah - Voices, Producer
Jaborn Jamal - Producer
Sharon Kearney - Assistant Engineer
Tone Da Backbone - Programming, Multi Instruments, Producer
Susan Bibeau - Design
Andrew Dosunmu - Stylist
Sandie Lee Drake - Art Direction
Marc Baptiste - Photography
John Meredith - Producer, Drum Programming, Assistant Engineer
N'Dambi - Voices

Charting singles

1997	On & On	              The Billboard Hot 100	                No. 12
1997	On & On	              Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	        No. 1
1997	On & On	              Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales        No. 3
1997	On & On	              Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales        No. 9
1997	On & On	              Rhythmic Top 40	                        No. 23