Badu

Erykah Badu Image Credit: Elyse Jankowski/Billboard Erykah Badu plays her Saturday night headlining set at the Orpheum Theatre on November 11th. Fresh off her Unfollow Me arena Tour this summer, the 2,000-cap downtown venue is among the most intimate venues she’s played this year. For nearly two hours, Badu crooned and belted her way through songs including “20 Feet Tall,” “To Each Their Own,” and “Window Seat.” She played “Green Eyes” in her brief encore before finishing with a frenetic,…

“Woke,” a term singer Erykah Badu reinvigorated in the late aughts on the track “Master Teacher,” has since taken on “a life of its own,” and she believes it has become a put-down for Black people.“It doesn’t belong to us anymore,” the four-time Grammy Award winner said in an interview this week, reflecting on the evolution of the the word from a social-justice battle cry to a stereotype of dissent that is now weaponized as conservative invective.Speaking during “Mavericks With Ari Melber,” the “On & On” and…

“There’s an urban legend that my pussy changes men,” Erykah Badu told Rolling Stone back in 2020. “The men that I fall in love with, and fall in love with me, change jobs and lives.”Badu again addressed her so-called “bedroom powers” during a recent appearance on the Tamron Hall Show. The subject was brought up after the host played a clip from Vogue’s Objects of Affection series in which Badu gave an extensive tour of her home/studio, aptly dubbed the “Badudio.”Hall said, “So that’s a studio-slash-bedroom, and I thought,…

Drake has issued a succinct response to the high praise he received from Erykah Badu over his recent shows at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.As you may have seen on Instagram, Badu shared a post from Okayplayer in which Drake was billed as “the voice of a generation.” Notably, she agreed, adding in a simple “cause he is” when sharing the post.“My eternal spirit animal has spoken,” Drake responded in an Instagram Stories update in which he also sprinkled in an assortment of emoji. See the full exchange in context below.Image…

There’s a collective sharp intake of breath in the Royal Festival Hall, as a voice comes out of the speakers. “Erykah will be joining us as soon as possible.” In Badu World – or “Badubotron”, the singer has been calling it of late – time is elastic. Irrelevant. It could mean waiting hours for her to go on stage. Even hours and hours. In recent years, she has perhaps become known as much for her loose time-keeping – and letting loose some unpopular opinions – as for being the bohemian soul sage who changed the sound of…

In a post shared on Instagram, Erykah Badu showered the artist formerly known as Kanye West with praise."Art kids.. Badu x Ye supporting our friend @riccardotisci17 - london fashion week 22," she wrote alongside a photo of her with Ye. "by the way … Let me tell you about my friend Ye. No one is more beautiful and kind and creative. Was there at his mama home going … IN ESSENCE.. We all want the same thing .. to be loved and to work with pride . Thanks for fighting for us and for your self most of all .. I get it ……