The queen of hiatuses has finally laid off the ganja for a hot minute to finalize the release date of her 6th efforts and second installation of her New Amerykah serious. New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh is now set to be released February 23rd, 2010. This is what Erykah Bady had to say about this: “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,” Badu explained during a listening session this week at New York City’s Chung King Studios. “‘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. It reminds of the days of Baduizm — this is just about beats and rhymes in a cipher.”

Also, she threatened: “If anything leaks, I won’t put out this album,” she said about potential future leaks. “I worked too hard for that to happen. Let a bitch make some money some kind of way.”