a b c "Erykah Badu: GQ Music Issue 2011: The Survivors". Gq.com. January 4, 2014 . Retrieved February 11, 2014. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums: December 09, 2000 | Billboard Chart Archive". Billboard.com. December 9, 2000 . Retrieved February 11, 2014. Badu became a vegan in 2006: " Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure." [175] Badu splits her time between her hometown and Fort Greene, New York. [176] Devine, Jimi (March 1, 2023). "Erykah Badu Drops That Badu Cannabis Line". LA Weekly . Retrieved March 15, 2023. Bob Power, Producer, mix engineer, instrumentalist, worked extensively with A Tribe Called Quest (“On & On,”“Drama”)

Can it really be that long ago? In many ways, it feels like we’ve benefitted from Erykah Badu’s idiosyncratic style and lyrical insights since time immemorial; yet it also feels like only yesterday that Baduizm, originally released on February 11, 1997, made its creator a household name, taking her to No.2 in the US while cruising to the top of the R&B chart. Ivory: I can’t tell you how many people come up to me like, “I made babies to that record.” [ Laughs.] And I’m just like, “Thanks, dude.” Literally 50 times, somebody has said that to me. Ivory: It’s just really good to have worked on a classic record, because you don’t get them often. You knew that it was special when you were doing it, but it was just special to you — it didn’t seem like it was special to the whole world. But it did translate.

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Badu: That’s Dallas, Texas. Once I was out of school, I’d met this young, maybe 18 or 19, underground producer in Dallas named JaBorn Jamal. We created the beat to “On” together. Mary J. Blige had used audio-tuned drums in “Real Love” [starts imitating that drum beat], so I wanted to start the song like that because she was one of my biggest inspirations. And the rest is herstory. New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)", Badu's fifth studio album, was released March 30, 2010, on Universal Motown in the United States. [73] It was released in Japan on April 14, 2010. [74] Upon release the album was met with general acclaim from critics. [75] The album debuted at number four on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 110,000 copies in its first week. [76] It also entered at number two on Billboard 's R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. [61] In the United Kingdom, New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) debuted at number 56 on the UK Albums Chart and at number nine on the R&B Albums Chart. [77] [78] In Canada, the album debuted at number 36 on the Top 100 and at number five on the R&B Top 50 chart. [79] [80] New Amerykah Part Two achieved moderate chart success in international markets, peaking within the top 50 in several countries, including Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, and Denmark. [77] Badu: During that time period, I had to make the most adult decision of my life: whether I wanted to be in the squatting or sitting position during childbirth. [ Laughs.] In all seriousness, my cousin Free and I were a group called Erykah Free. Sometimes we called ourselves the Funky Cousins. I never really wanted to be apart, but I didn’t really want to be a group — I wanted to be a solo artist. I didn’t say anything for a long time, because we are just so good together. When I did finally decide to express that, it was very difficult. And it took some of the sweetness out of signing the deal. But Free, being the human being he is, said he understood. He didn’t go anywhere, of course; he’s produced on all the rest of my albums. In 1997, Badu received six nominations and won three: Favorite Female Solo Single for "On & On", Favorite Female Solo Album for Baduizm and Best R&B/Soul or Rap Song of the Year for "On & On" at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. [35] [36]Power: Before Erykah came along, no one really had the vision, or possibly the courage, to do something in that fashion. When you have a piece of art with great bones, you can just keep taking things away and it only gets better. Publications like Rolling Stone , Village Voice and others immediately sensed comparisons between Erykah’s voice and those of Billie Holiday and Diana Ross — not that Erykah herself was pleased by the parallels.

For the 2014 Okayplayer platform and web television OkayAfrica TV, Badu had her DNA tested, and genealogists researched her family ancestry. It was revealed that Badu's mitochondrial DNA traced to the Bamileke people of Cameroon in Central Africa. [179] [180] Legal issues and controversies [ edit ] During a January concert in Chicago, Badu drew boos when she said she was "putting up a prayer right now for R." She followed with a tweet that read: "I love you. Unconditionally. That doesn’t mean I support your poor choices. I want healing for you and anyone you have hurt as a result of you being hurt. Is that strange to you ? That’s all I’ve ever said. Anything else has been fabricated or taken out of context."

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Ivory: A lot of times they would just jam. Scott [Storch, producer and former Roots keyboardist] walks in the door, Common’s in the lobby, Ahmir is playing drums, Rahzel— they would just say, “Okay, come on in, let’s just do something.” We would do that for hours. It was intimate, it was a good time. Nobody was a big star at that point, everybody was still coming up, a big posse of contributors. I mean, I worked with [the Roots] for eight, nine years on all those records, throughout the ’90s. And Erykah was a great part of the middle of that.

Best Known For: Erykah Badu is known for her soulful music style, showcased on albums such as the Grammy Award-winning 'Baduizm' and her follow-up, 'Live.'DaCosta, Jamaias (March 16, 2012). "On the record: Erykah Badu's Mama's Gun". CBC Music. CBC. Archived from the original on March 1, 2016 . Retrieved March 16, 2013. Lewis: I had read about her in Billboard, about how she got signed and was going to be in a video with D’Angelo, the remix to “Lady.” That was when the world saw her for the first time, but nobody really knew who she was — she hadn’t put any music out at the time. On February 20, 2020, Badu opened an online store named Badu World Market. [171] Badu World Market features bespoke clothing, apothecary goods, musical merchandise, clothing accessories, and more. She also began selling a line of incense; one scent is named "Badu Pussy" because Badu claimed she "took lots of pairs of [her] panties, cut them up into little pieces and burned them." [172]