Erykah Badu has released her first new single in six years with “Next To You,” which is produced by The Alchemist. The boom-bap-styled cut recycles the beat The Alchemist used on Mobb Deep’s “The Realest.” Badu riffs about wanting to spend time with her special person doing things like smoking blunts. The song has an AI generated visual and The Alchemist revealed that the single will appear on Badu’s first album in more than a decade, titled Abi & Alan. Badu just gave a concert in her Dallas hometown to celebrate Juneteenth.
