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List of songs:
01. 20 Feet Tall
produced by 9th Wonder
Vibe.com: Features Badu's stark vocals over a floating keyboard riff that can be described as a jazzier nod to Radiohead's "Everything in it's Right Place" (2000).
Rap-Up.com: When Badu asks, “What did I do to make you fall so far from me?” she sorrowfully wonders what she did to push herself away from the one that she holds dear. She uses the analogy that she feels “20 Feet Tall” over keyboard riffs courtesy of 9th Wonder.
ShowingOut.com: The album kicks off with the atonal fuzz found all over Part I, only this time it slips into an off-kilter, warbly duet with keys and vocals that float atop the instrumentation. “You built a wall 20 feet tall / But if I get off my knees / I might recall I’m 20 feet tall,” she sings. The track ends with children screaming.
02. Window Seat
produced by Erykah Badu and James Poyser
Vibe.com: I need your attention...I need you to miss me," she pleads to a lover on the throwback soul groove that's driven by a live jazz bassline (a theme throughout New Amerykah Pt. II) that could have been plucked straight off Baduizm.
Rap-Up.com: “I don’t want to time travel anymore. I want to be right now, right here,” Badu states while The Roots’ ?uestlove plays the drums and James Poyser strokes the keys. Being in the moment is one challenge of the song, on which she wishes for “a window seat for a ticket out of town to look around.” It also seems that the “Tyrone” hitmaker is looking for an escape, “a chance to fly, a chance to cry.”
ShowingOut.com: “Window Seat” kicks up the pace into a thick, rich drum groove, paralleling the best of early neo-soul Erykah with its chalky bongo hits and sultry vocals. On the track, she sings, “But I need you to want me / And I need you to miss me / I need your attention / I need you next to me / I need someone to clap for me” before defiantly cooing on the chorus, “Can I get a window seat? / Don’t want nobody next to me.” The track ends with a sudden psychedelic smear of noise.
03. Agitation
produced by Shafiq Husayn
Rap-Up.com: “What a day, what a day,” Badu laments on the track, which will remind listeners of the first verse from her 1997 Baduizm hit “On and On.” But this time she is fed up and wants to “pull his thing out, but it’s against the law.”
ShowingOut.com: With its fleshy bass line, this short tune throws some jazzy spice into the mix, with pulsating rhythm drums and a jazz piano line that plays the background to Badu chanting, “What a day.” The track abruptly cuts out.
04. Get Money
produced by Erykah Badu, James Poyser, Karriem Riggins and Thundercat
Vibe.com: Samples the Notorious B.I.G.-led Junior Mafia classic "Get Money." A playful Badu takes on the role of a female player who is all about the green, delivering real talk lines like, "I look like a model...I want your money.
Rap-Up.com: Some may say a hip-hop album isn’t complete without a Biggie reference, but Badu extends the unspoken rule to soul. Over Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s “Get Money,” she uses money as a metaphor for love, time, affection, laughter, and all the good parts of her lover. “I look like a model/ I’ll do what I got to to stay in the running/ ’Cause I want your money,” she boasts. But what she longs for, above all, is control. “Let me drive your car because honey I want you bad!” she sings.
ShowingOut.com: Hip-hop purists will appreciate the blatant nod to Biggie and Junior M.A.F.I.A., as Erykah gives her own spin on the classic “Get Money” by flipping it into a warm, tantalizing soul groove. Over live instrumentation, Badu sings on the chorus, “Can’t turn me away / I believe in your heart / I always want to stay.” In the background, she casually sasses, “Get money!” Throughout the track, you expect her to just bust into a rhyme, but after riding out for a good couple of minutes, the track ends with a literal round of applause. Oh, and somewhere in there, Badu promises her man, “I’ll be your robot girl.
05. Don't Be Long
produced by Ta’Raach
Rap-Up.com: The sweet sounds of Badu’s voice and a banjo blast through the speakers as she celebrates the simplicity of a single thought—the pain of waiting. “I can’t wait to see how you move/ I can’t wait to see what you do, so don’t be long,” she tells her lover.
ShowingOut.com: Before this one kicks in, Badu says on the track, “Do you have the number for the other bass player?” before reading some futuristic phone number that has too many digits to be legit. Soon, “Don’t Be Long” begins, coasting on the thickest groove yet. With a sizzling bass line, the head-knocking groove gently cruises on an electric guitar rhythm, with Badu singing, “Go baby, go baby / Go be gone, I know you’ve got to get your hustle on.” The track, produced by Ta’Raach (Badu explained that he’s straight from the Sa-Ra camp), ends in an atonal mess of notes and a robotic, distorted speaking voice of a woman.
06. Love
produced by J Dilla
Rap-Up.com: Before this song is played, a sound similar to that of the Emergency Broadcast System completely shocks the crowd. Badu uses the 30 seconds to describe the difference between the frequencies of fear and love, stating that fear has a low frequency and moves slow and love has a high frequency and moves fast. After that interruption, we return to our regularly scheduled program, and “Love” takes us back, way back, to the days of feel-good music. “I love how you make me feel,” she professes to the male in question, thereby creating a high frequency.
ShowingOut.com: This short track is over in almost the blink of an eye, but it leaves an indelible mark on the listener. With a splotchy, fat drum beat, “Love” features a rusty guitar melody with Erykah accenting the beat with poignant vocals. Too short for such a kicking joint, but memorable.
07. Umm Hmm
produced by Madlib
Rap-Up.com: This is one of the songs on the album in which Badu’s voice can be heard joking in the background. While her man is loving her, she is cheating on him with his friends and can’t help but laugh. “You loving me and I’m driving your Benz, and I’m fucking your friends.”
ShowingOut.com: This one features a sped-up vocal sample and is crowded, playing like a vintage record straight from the crates. “You can’t hide / Calm down baby let me go / I love how you make me feel,” she sings.
08. Fall in Love
produced by Karriem Riggins
Vibe.com: A heartfelt, mid tempo slow jam that uses a chilling J Dilla-blessed Eddie Kendricks sample. Has single potential.
Rap-Up.com: Using a sample from Eddie Kendrinks’ “Intimate Friends” (also used by Alicia Keys on “Unbreakable”), she warns her suitor over and over, “You don’t want to fall in love with me.” She also demands that if she stays, he should prepare to have his stuff rearranged. If that’s a threat, taking heed would be the best thing to do.
ShowingOut.com: “Fall in Love” might as well boast a production credit from Dilla, because it takes many cues from his style. The smooth backpacker-catering joint rests on stabbing electronic Moog noises and subtle, liquid butter keys buried deep in the mix. “Slow singin’ and flower bringin’ / If my burglar alarm starts ringin’,” she sings, paying homage to the late, great Biggie Smalls for a second time. “It’s hard for him to not be in the fabric of my shit,” she later explained about why she had two references to the Notorious B.I.G. on the album. “Maybe I can ask Puff to let me have a verse,” she joked.
09. Incense
produced by Madlib
Vibe.com: Breathtaking instrumental that sounds like it was produced under water. Yes, that's a harp you are hearing. "It felt like a hug," Badu says of the stunning track.
Rap-Up.com: This is quite a celestial interlude, and sounds like someone used the studio board as a playground for different sounds. The experimental quality of the track makes it one to remember.
ShowingOut.com: This strictly instrumental track surprisingly fits right in with the rest of the album. Beginning with a static hum, “Incense” features a fluttering harp (recorded live in the studio) that plays in dynamic arpeggios before the groove locks into place. Soon, the harp readjusts to the new groove and a vibrating bass chimes in. Real soulful.
10. Out My Mind Just in Time (Part 1) (Undercover Over-Lover)
produced by James Poyser
Vibe.com: Badu calls this her second three-song suite ("You'll have to wait to hear [Part 3] when the album comes out," she says), much in the same conceptual vein featured on Mama's Gun. "Part 1" finds Badu accompanied by a stirring torch song piano pleading, "I'll lie for you, cry for you...yes I'm a fool for you..." "Part 2" is the sound of madness following heartbreak. Over a disjointed jazz-tinged groove Badu gives a haunting, schizophrenic performance.
Rap-Up.com: “I’m a recovering undercover over-lover recovering from a love I can’t get over!” Try saying that 10 times fast. In this tongue twister, Badu recoups from giving her man more than she gives herself in the relationship. But of course, time heals the wounds. Before she leaves, she presses upon her mate and tells him how far she would go for his love.
ShowingOut.com: Ms. Badu explained that this track is actually in three parts, stating that it was the “Green Eyes” of the album. “Part 1? of this track is Erykah at her most poignant. You can almost picture her singing in a smoky jazz bar as the track plays, with just a creamy piano accompaniment to her billowing vocals holding together the tune. “I’m a recovering undercover over-lover / Recovering from a love I can’t get over / Recovering undercover over-lover / And now my common law lover thinks he wants another,” she sings. Ms. Badu even moans, “I’d chop and screw for you,” with the vocal actually sounding chopped and screwed. The subtlety undeniably plays to her favor.
11. Out My Mind Just in Time (Part 2)
produced by Georgia Anne Muldrow
Rap-Up.com: This song is quite psychedelic. It sounds like two songs mixed over each other to create the effect of having two beats. Badu expresses that she “built a wall like 10 feet tall” and in the end, she’s out her mind just in time. The album ends with one simple cheer of children, a confirmation that her thoughts and views are heard, understood, and validated.
ShowingOut.com: The last track on the album was originally a Georgia Anne Muldrow song, Ms. Badu said, kind of like how Mos Def did the same thing with Muldrow’s “Roses” for his The Ecstatic album. Playing like a more fleshed out version of “Part 1,” the track features her singing, “Could this be love? / From high no frontier / Who is this guy / You are so wise / I’m so gone / By summertime, you’d had it all / Build a wall ten feet tall / Now I laugh at it all.” The track ends with her moaning, “Out of my mind, just in time” before the album cuts off and a group of children scream, “Yay!” An optimistic ending for a beautiful collection of tracks.

Possible bonus track:
Jump in the Air
featuring Lil Wayne, Andre 3000, Bilal, and others
Vibe.com: One of 10 versions of a leaked track that will feature 10 MC's (the cut will not be featured on New Amerykah Pt. II). While the hard-charging beat is somewhat aggressive, the message of keeping an optimistic attitude in life is bolstered by the much-rumored (and lively) performance of Lil' Wayne. "There are a few surprise MC's that you will hear," Badu says. "I don't want to give it away just yet.

ERYKAH ON THE NEW ALBUM:
"I called it Part II: The Return of the Ankh because this album is the sister of the left side of my brain - it is the right side. Part I was the left side of my thoughts - it was more socially political and my thought process was more analytical. This time there wasn't anything to be concerned with - the album is more emotional and flowy and talks about feelings. With Part I, I was standing at an apex, looking at what was going on around me politically, socially, and economically. With Part II, I’m hovering over me, looking at what’s going on inside of me. It reminds of the days of Baduizm - this is just about beats and rhymes in a cipher. I feel how I felt when I released Baduizm. This is my therapy. New Amerykah Pt. 1 [had a more] digital feel. This time I wanted to have more live instruments. I like how my voice sounds when I'm singing with a piano. I'm glad I don't have to use Auto-Tune. My voice is my gift. But if I had to use [Auto-Tune], I would. We used a lot of analog instruments—harps, strings, drums, piano, and even a Theremin—to give the album that sonic feel. There’s a strong undercurrent of bottom, a rumbling to these songs that feels good to me. It feels like a hug.”

ALBUM REVIEWS:
Big Texas Special: "Part II is a bit more lighthearted than the ominous and political Part I. [...] As song titles like "Love", "Fall in Love", and "Umm Hmm" suggest, Erykah's in a more contented mood this time around. "Get Money" features an interpolation of Sylvia Striplin's "You Can't Turn Me Away", which was sampled on the Junior M.A.F.I.A. [ft. the Notorious B.I.G. and Lil Kim] track of the same name. Another song, "Jump in the Air", is said to feature rappers including Lil Wayne and Andre 3000, according to Billboard, but it may not make the final album, possibly due to the fact that an unfinished version was leaked online. And yeah, this is a funky album; it's an Erykah Badu record.
Daily Mail UK: In contrast to New Amerykah, Part I: 4th World War, which was digitally produced and political in tone, New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh features lush live instrumentation and taps into Badu’s emotional side, focusing on romance and relationships.

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