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February 14, 2001

Q&A: Erykah Gets Her Gun

Ms. Badu cooks up sweet soul music
August 26, 1997

Badu Gift Set Features Live Cuts

Badu Gift Set Features Live Cuts
July 26, 1997

Badu Bags Soul Train Nominations

Badu Bags Soul Train Nominations
July 10, 1997

Blues Brothers Bring Badu To Big Screen

Blues Brothers Bring Badu To Big Screen

Recordings and Reviews

New Amerykah

Erykah Badu has embarked on one of the more ambitious projects in recent R&B history: This year, she'll release New AmErykah, a series of at least two, possibly three, albums tackling sociopolitical issues like poverty and 9/11, drawing on musical styles from the Forties through the Sixties, and...

2008 RS: 3of 5 Stars

World Wide Underground

2003

Mama's Gun

2000

Baduizm

1997

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Biography

Along with D'Angelo and Mary J. Blige, singer Erykah Badu championed the hip-hop/soul movement of the '90s. Her smooth voice, trademark head wrap, and majestic demeanor manifest sentiments of black pride, self-love, and female liberation. Badu's collaborations with the Roots, as well as with jazz bassist Ron Carter, trumpeter Roy Hargrove, and funk vibraphonist Roy Ayers, signify her strong ties t...

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