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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
Erykah Badu
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Erykah Badu
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 26
Actor
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Jazz Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Dallas
Texas
Erica Abi Wright
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I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
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Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.
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And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
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I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.
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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
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I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.
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The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
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My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.
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I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
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I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.
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I bring the staple of my culture.
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I'm a performance artist first I'm a recording artist second.
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I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
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All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
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All the women in my family were very creative.
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