Why not?īadu’s But You Cain’t Use My Phone, released over Thanksgiving holiday, was inspired by her seven-minute take on Drake’s current radio hit “Hotline Bling.” Badu swaps out the song’s earworm hook of “she used to call me on my cell phone” for “you used to call me on my cell-u-lar de-vice at night,” then spends over a minute doing a spoken breakdown while playing the part of an increasingly bizarre voice answering service, before jumping right back into what it would mean when that hotline would bling. She runs around Dealey Plaza naked, she names her kids amazing things, she stands up for herself. In the most recent episode of freewheeling antics, Badu released an entire mixtape out of nowhere that’s all about phones.

Everybody couldn’t get in here.’ And you can really feel what’s going on, like you’re part of the family,” shared the official artist-in-residence and frequent Badu collaborator Robert Glasper.Ĭheck out Erykah Badu’s full Diggin Crystals In Badubotron Tour schedule below.ħ/30 Napa Valley, California* (Blue Note Jazz Festival)Ĩ/5 Brooklyn, New York (BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!)Ĩ/7 Columbia, Maryland (Merriweather Post Pavilion)ĩ/2 Dallas, Texas (TBAAL Riverfront Jazz Festival)ĩ/10 St.Erykah Badu does what she wants. We want to have that feeling of ‘Wow, this is special. “It’s not a huge festival that’s on purpose. Paak, Corinne Bailey Rae, Snoop Dogg, Goapele, and more were also on the bill.

The Blue Note Jazz Festival was hosted by Dave Chappelle and had a personal take on music festival settings. Maxwell, Erykah Badu, Chaka Khan, Yasiin Bey, and Talib Kweli’s reunion as Black Star, Alex Isley, Thundercat, Anderson. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Show Vol.

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