I love it when she’s sassy and funny, like in “Tyrone,” one of my all-time favorite break up songs.

Women who may never have worn an afrocentric hairstyle or outfit before have been inspired by Erykah’s fiercely ethnic beauty. Her big brown almond eyes and impossibly tall headwrap made her an imposing figure among her scantily clad R&B counterparts from the onset.Įrykah embraces an exotic image, and it totally works for her. She’s positively otherworldly as she strides across the desert in the video for “Didn’t Cha Know”. In “Otherside of The Game” and “Next Lifetime,” she captures this unusual, timeless quality. To this day, Baduizm is a fixture in my CD collection. She seemed like an earth angel, with a nasal twang of a voice akin to that of Billie Holiday’s. Erykah was – is- such a breath of fresh air in the game. She strutted on the screen in that green headwrap and commanded us to listen.

Remember the first time you saw Erykah Badu’s video for “On and On”? I do. Let me take y’all back a few years, back to 1997.

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