Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

but you can't use my phone is great

It probably shouldn't (because its sentiments have never not applied really) but 'Twinkle' does feel tangibly more prescient nine years later.

Worldwide Underground is a bit of a step down from the rest of her discog, but everything else is straight-up classic, particularly the New Amerykahs.

Cain't Use My Phone was awesome, if a little slight, with more obvious filler than any of her proper albums. But the great stuff was totally amazing.

I've always thought D'Angelo was a bit overrated (still great!) and Badu consistently underrated. Particularly, yes, the two New Amerykahs. People lose their shit over Voodoo, but these albums are just as ambitious and successful. And Mama's Gun, for that matter.

oh I'll say it:

Badu >>>>>>>>>>>> D'Angelo

That said, I saw a Badu show once where she spent an eternity rolling around on a pilates ball.

I don't see that as a mitigating factor

Badu = Bjork >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> anyone else, basically

Say what u must. Dialogue is cool . I invite it. But please do me a favor if you can , Black & Jewish Twitter, just don't use the word "problematic " any more. 😂Y'all using that too much . 🙄.. oh and read the article.

— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) January 24, 2018

erykah otm

the article is awful tho

call out culture is bullshit and yes people should stop calling things problematic on twitter but if you can read that interview and not come away from it never wanting to hear anything erykah badou says ever again then youre nuts

the interviewer was dumb i thought

erykah was erykah

the little annotations they did were really stupid

idk what was different about her in that interview compared to any other interview she's done in the past 20 years?

btw i think about when she said "u on twitter tho, oppressin me" all the time

following up a bit about her support for farrakhan and accusations of anti-semitism with "hitler was a wonderful painter" while speaking to a jew is a bit gauche

STFU erykah and make some good new music

hitler had real issues with perspective, unsurprisingly

i thought it was funny tbh, esp when she immediately follows up w/ "okay, he was a terrible painter"

In general, Erykah Badu has given more to me in my lifetime than the entirety of social media comment threads.

I thought the article was great and the interviewer came off much worse than she did.

following up a bit about her support for farrakhan and accusations of anti-semitism with "hitler was a wonderful painter" while speaking to a jew is a bit gauche

If you claim to see some good in every human, Hitler is logical person to mention as an extreme you go to. She wasn't thinking of the larger scope or people cherry-picking this bit. Just backing up her claim.

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I found the interview to be a reasonable conversation between two people with different, but defensible, worldviews. I think this is causing a mini-uproar because most Good Internet People expect their heroes to think exactly like they do, and badu just doesn't. good for her imo

uproar around it is nonsense obv

tbh I thought your comment was similarly silly!

this is just who erykah is, nothing she said really surprised me. and tbh there was nothing I found particularly ~*~*~problematic~*~*~ either

btw here is the interview: http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/erykah-badu-in-conversation.html

kevin otm

she reminds me of every retired baby boomer ex-hippy i know and i just found the whole interview insufferable, made worst by the dumb hitler comment and like this bit: "Somebody will call me and ask me to come to a march because such and such got shot. In that situation I want to know what really happened. I’m not going to jump up and go march just because I’m green and the person who got shot is green. The rush to get mad doesn’t make sense to me."

wanting to get facts...ugh insufferable!

wanting to get facts...ugh insufferable!

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:17 PM (nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you being deliberately disingenuous or just dumb? generally when someone gets shot in america and there is a march about it the person was murdered by a cop, but of course you know that.

guys it's Erykah Badu, she lives in her own world and I wouldn't have it any other way

I'm still not understanding your outrage?

"In that situation I want to know what really happened" /= "Eh, fuck these snowflakes *adjusts head scarf* "

lol

when you hear about an unarmed black man getting shot by the cops is your first reaction "i wonder what happened there, it could've been legit"? no it isn't.

i guess i will leave the stans to it.

Keep our head ringin, jim

are you being deliberately disingenuous or just dumb? generally when someone gets shot in america and there is a march about it the person was murdered by a cop, but of course you know that.

― khat person (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, January 24, 2018 2:18 PM (forty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm being neither, thanks for the false binary. Of course I know that. And I would want to, you know, know as much facts about it as possible before I marched about it. ESPECIALLY if I was a celebrity.

"another black man was shot by a cop. we're going to march about it. you in?"
"hmm ok what exactly happened in this case"
"oh ffs you're insufferable!"

"another black man was shot by a cop. we're going to march about it. you in?"
"hmm ok what exactly happened in this case"

This is a weird response, though.

ya how bizarre to want to know about the incident you're going to march about

You're marching against police killing black people, seriously, what more do you need to know?

"Somebody will call me and ask me to come to a march because such and such got shot. In that situation I want to know what really happened."

So no, she wasn't talking about "marching against police killing black people". She was talking about a hypothetical yet specific killing. To me, it's weird to not want to know about that specific killing.

She is clearly talking about a BLM march, GD...

because such and such got shot
because such and such got shot
because such and such got shot
because such and such got shot
because such and such got shot
because such and such got shot
because such and such got shot
because such and such got shot
because such and such got shot

good lord the things you people will nitpick, always trying to paint people in the most negative light

I would imagine if people are marching it would not be very difficult to get some info unless she needs to comb over forensic evidence or some shit

it's a dumb way to say "I'm not an activist" but are you guys suggesting she's...pro-cop? anti-black? what?

Or she could just freaking ask the person who is calling her...

I think she's just trying to say that she resists group-think under all circumstances, even the most obviously righteous ones.

I agree. And in the process she underlines why that is a bullshit stance, imo.