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

From Entertainment Weekly:

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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