"Baduizm" is listed as one of the 261 greatest albums since punk and disco (the year 1976), in the music critic Garry Mulholland's book "Fear of Music" (). 'This record works as seduction soundtrack, Saturday night chill-out, Sunday morning church replacement. The success of Erykah Badu's masterpiece briefly threatened to inspire a new era in conscious soul. But only Lauryn Hill and D'Angelo were at her level. "Baduizm" stands alone, a missing link between '70s street funk, basement jazz, bohemian hip hop and the blues reinventions of Portishead."