{"product_id":"erykah-badu-the-alchemist-before-the-world-blows-the-abi-and-alan-experiment-preorder-out-12-11","title":"Erykah Badu \u0026 The Alchemist- Before The World Blows: The Abi And Alan Experiment PREORDER OUT 12\/11","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a preorder. Albums can be picked up or will be mailed out upon street date. Order by 11\/27\/26 to get by 12\/11\/26.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel: Young\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn the eleven years since her last project, Erykah Badu has gathered not conclusions but a series of existential insights. Before the World Blows: The Abi and Alan Experiment exists within the tension between introspection and growth. Abi is Badu. Alan is The Alchemist. Recorded over 18 months in Dallas and Los Angeles, the album is the inevitable collision of two iconoclasts—hypnotic, funny, blunt, deeply personal, and impossible to categorize neatly. Meditative and fluid, Before the World Blows finds Badu contemplating which parts of ourselves and our stories are worth protecting before the world breaks and fragments. Love, innocence, dreams, memories, womanhood. The album unfolds in four movements, charting the progression of self through the prisms of love, art, and identity, inviting us to sit with difficult feelings. Passion blurs with desire, hope with grief, each song revealing another illuminating facet of the inner Baduverse. Alchemist sent Badu a collection of instrumental beats, which she deconstructed and sculpted into tracks that felt uniquely hers, looping his warm, punchy samples with instruments from soft kalimba notes to immersive chords and drums. The result moves fluidly between soul, blues, funk, rock, jazz, and underground hip-hop, yet belongs entirely to none of them. From 2024 to 2025, Abi and Alan road-tested the entire album live, performing in intimate, phone-free settings with Badu’s digital collective, The Cannabinoids, and Alchemist on the MPC, fine-tuning the tracks along the way. Badu has always seen art as an inevitable, infinite extension of the self. At any point in space and time, that means evolution is inevitable, too. Before the world blows, it’s worth it to keep exploring. To have one more kiss. Before the world blows, it’s worth it to get to know thyself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrack listing:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eEchos\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eI Just Play A Part feat. DJ Creole Princess, Westside Gunn, Joi \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eCrossfade\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eWitch Doctor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eValentine feat. DRAM\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eNext 2 U\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eLove Me Not\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eBreezy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eAbracadabra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eTo The Moon (Plan C) feat. Steve Lacy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eThey Ain’t You feat. Thundercat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eWhat The People Say (Apostle 1)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eHot BiBi (Apostle 2)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eNo I.D. feat. Westside Gunn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eI Know That Man feat. Earl Sweatshirt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003eBlack Box feat. Kamasi Washington\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"p1\"\u003e‘one more note..before the world blows.’ - e.Badu\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Waiting Room Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":45449120153715,"sku":null,"price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Indie Exclusive Orange 2xLP","offer_id":45449120186483,"sku":null,"price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0082\/4315\/0908\/files\/ErykahBadu_TheAlchemist-BeforeTheWorldBlows-LPCover.jpg?v=1788643121","url":"https:\/\/waitingroomrecords.com\/products\/erykah-badu-the-alchemist-before-the-world-blows-the-abi-and-alan-experiment-preorder-out-12-11","provider":"Waiting Room Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}