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Thursday, December 30, 2010
juicysistas:Badu
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
irocklocs:<3 Three Greats!!! <3
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Sunday, December 19, 2010
She is some kinda wonderful.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
afrocubana:Erykah B.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
#Bigeyes.
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
worldwide underground
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
#blackgirlsarefromtheFuture #8 and #9.
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
My God. Erykah’s eyes are like...
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My God. Erykah's eyes are like spaceships.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wowsas.(via fuckyeahbadu)
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In. THE. FUCKING AYER. SINCE...
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In. THE. FUCKING AYER. SINCE 2.14.10.#askaboutme.
Erykah Badu.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Badu gets fine, probation for nude stroll
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Erykah Badu must pay a $500 fine and serve six months on probation for her naked stroll through downtown Dallas, Texas, while making a music video last March, a city official confirmed Tuesday.Things you can do from here:
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Erykah Badu rocks a new look
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Erykah Badu, whose large afro wigs have long been associated with the natural hair movement, rocked a radical new look at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago.
Erykah Badu in years past
Since the photos were posted online, people have reacted in a variety of ways. Some see the combination of blonde and straight as a radical and unwelcome departure from her natural roots, others feel that as an artist, she is free to reinvent herself and doesn't owe anybody anything.
I personally think that a.) well, first off it's amazing that Erykah booked Lollapalooze, so hats off to her b.) I could be wrong… but I don't remember Erykah ever going on the record saying she was pro-natural, so I think it was largely assumed and c.) I think we sometimes forget that they were wigs… afro *wigs*.
Erykah has done several gorgeous big chops over the years, but I don't think she's managed to grow out a head of loose-strand natural hair. Maybe it's because she didn't want to, maybe it's because she couldn't. I don't know.
I know a lot of naturals have projected feelings onto Erykah and I'm not sure that's fair. She's always played around with her look (she's even rocked straight wigs before), so this certainly isn't unprecedented.
What's your take?
Lollapalooza pics via The Kansas City Star
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Style Jury: Erykah Badu Hair Raising Style At Lollapalooza
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Commandeering the Lollapalooza stage in a pair of sky high YSL ankle boots while rocking an equally towering bleach blond mohawk, Erykah Badu continued to drive home the point that she does not give a damn about what fashion critics have to say. You know, for all parties under the false pretense that she did.
WHAT'S YOUR VERDICT?
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
okayplayer: effyeahhotblackgirls: Erykah Badu
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Cover shots: Erykah Badu for Jet Magazine
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Erykah Badu covers the Jet Magazine for the week of June 7th. According to the press release, Erykah has a "Bone Crusher" mentality cause she's Never Scared…
Outspoken singer sounds off about controversial video, motherhood and much more
Erykah Badu doesn't back down from anything and she definitely works hard to be true to herself.
Gearing up for her Out My Mind, Just In Time multi-city tour, the mother of three tells Jet's Senior Writer Clarence Waldron that she¹s not moved by the recent controversy about her artistry or anyone's opinion about her in general. In fact, she has much more to say in this week's issue.
This issue of JET hits stands nationwide Monday, May 31.
Related:
Video: "Window Seat" ~ Erykah Badu
Dallas Cops Investigate Erykah Badu Nudity Complaints [Press Conference]
Erykah Badu Pleads "Not Guilty" to WINDOW SEAT Nudity Charges
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Friday, April 30, 2010
fuckyeahblackbeauties: blackfashion: beholdalady (via...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
fuckyeahblackbeauties: soulsacrifice: commondense: constantfl...
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(wwrdd:supernaturallady:chokemywords:)
"However, our society thinks that success means having a car and a lot of money and looking as white as you can or as American as you can. Or if you're white, looking as exotic as you can. We don't have any idea that it's about our hearts and our souls and how we treat the next person."
-Erykah Badu
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Hearts led Baby it’s your deal…
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Apparently people across the country are outraged by Erykah Badu's public disrobing. Perhaps this was a matter of timing. Had Ms. Badu waited until this month, April, which is Confederacy History Month in southern states like Texas, it might not have been such a big deal–the War of Northern Aggression being all about a state's sovereign right to disrobe black people and buy and sell black bodies all willy-nilly and everything. Still, no one wants to admit to viewing a black woman's body on her own terms. That shit's embarrassing. So much so that Dallas police had to compel one actual witness to come forward so that they could formally charge @fatbellybella with disorderly conduct.
Watch the video.
Guilty as charged. On several counts. Giving the middle finger to the state by not securing the proper permits to film in the big D (li'l a double-l-a-s)? Guilty. Resuscitating a beloved dead white man's violently tragic death for purely niggardly purposes? Guilty. Removing one's clothes for reasons other than satiating the male gaze? Guilty. Demanding that said gaze look at a black body in a non-sexual manner? Guilty. Publicly proclaiming a black woman's agency? Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. /sarcasm
What was just as interesting as the video was the responses to the video. There were blog posts (here, here and here), Twitter comments (I have a screen shot of Terry McMillan saying something to Erykah we can use), response videos and legal action taken against Erykah. In fact as of today April 20th, Erykah Badu has been charged with disorderly conduct and can either pay a $500 fine, or contest the charge. It will be interesting to see what she does. Which leads me to two questions:
What does it mean that this is a society where women's bodies are used to sell everything from beer to cars, yet the presence of a Black woman's body on her own terms prompts fears about children witnesses and fears of nudity? Let me be clear, a nude body and sexual body are not one in the same. But then again, folks don't have #noactright because the nude white model's at the MOMA got fondled last week by museum visitors. This happened in an installation, which is apart of the Marina Abramović restrospective, where patrons must walk between two nude female bodies. Full stop. Jen Carlson, writing in Gothamist says,"the Yugoslavian-born performance artist wouldn't be doing her job if she didn't make her audience experience something they haven't before, no?" Two different settings, high art, nudity and folks acting like they have no home training when it comes to seeing a naked female body. One body violated in the moment and another subject to a public scrutiny that's still copping its feel.
Back to Erykah and the Dallas Police Department. The Dallas police received hundreds of calls from outside the state in complaint of Badu's actions. Badu's pale(r) inspirations, Matt & Kim, generated no such vitriol. No one lodged complaints out of concern for the poor children who were exposed to the pasty frostbitten (it looked cold right?) bits of a white woman and man. Erykah's video predicts the retribution by a state that wants to keep people on the straight and narrow. (Who shot ya?) She did apparently disrupt the order despite the fact that most people weren't even paying attention to her when she did it. Check the disinterest in the bystanders. Wu-Tang is for the children (RIP, ODB), but according to Dallas police, Erykah ain't. The DPD said she didn't care about the kids grazing the grassy knoll. This despite her own words on Twitter and in numerous interviews about how she worried that they might be traumatized. So she sent out a telepathic signal to let them know her intent. Next time, Erykah, use an iPhone.
Despite Badu's best efforts to explain herself (she went on 106 & Park, for fuck's sake), despite her attempt to be intentional, folks had the unmitigated gall to say that they couldn't understand the clip as anything more than a publicity stunt. Which is to say they'd rather not read or listen…to words. Which explains several (pop) cultural phenomena, including Sarah Palin and blazing hip-hop and R&B, in general. (To be sure, Sarah Palin and Erykah Badu will never be mentioned in the same blog entry again.)
What good do your words do if they can't understand you (or stop looking at your ass)?
Let's write a $500 check to the city of Dallas on behalf of Erykah. The shit might bounce, but the sentiment won't.
Co-authored by moyazb, summer of sam, & mdot
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Necessary Fierceness
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Its not my day to post but recent events caused me the catch the spirit and pick up the laptop.
If you haven't heard, Erykah Badu released the video to her second song off her 6th studio Album (Release party @ the crib tomorrow, feel free to roll through) New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh.
*spoiler alert*
In the video, she gets naked. Actually, its not that simple.
A more accurate statement would be that she gets real vulnerable.
We know this not just because of what we see on screen but because of what she has been tweeting about for most of the month. Erykah lets us in to the must private pieces of herself. We witness her thought process, her checking in with friends, family, babies, and their daddies about what she is about to do. She's not asking for permission but letting them know as people are bound to talk and not surprisingly, the web is already filled with people slinging hate her way.
Some folks say she copied Matt and Kim. She says that. She says that the video was inspired by what they did. And frankly what she did seems a lot more intentional and connected to what her relationship with the world is. Additionally, Erykah is reaching a completely different audience than Matt and Kim. One of her tweets led me to this response to the video by someone who is not a part of Matt and Kim's demographic and was able to garner her own meaning from the video. I love that about Erykah. She reaches people where they are while simultaneusly creating a horizontal loving line that pushes them a bit from where they are.
This album and the one before are incantations. She is using her magic to save her people and get folks to wake up and shake that load off that is groupthink and others expectations. She is being brave even when she's petrified and creating the world she wants to see by daring her audience to push just as she has in her own town!
She's f*cking fierce!
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
Erykah x Pedestrian White Art
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Main Entry: 1pe·des·tri·an
Pronunciation: \pə-ˈdes-trē-ən\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin pedestr-, pedester, literally, going on foot, from ped-, pes foot — more at foot
Date: 1716
1 : commonplace, unimaginative
Doesn't the Erykah Video render the above images pedestrian and really White?
I am saying.
This afternoon, I was looking for a link to Turn Me Away and I was struck by how UNINTERESTING the above images are in comparison to her video.
Agreed?
No, I'm crazy? Luls.
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Musing on The Window Seat Video
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Earlier today, I was on the phone with Bacon Grits, chit chatting,planning my outfit, my day, flirting, and he asked me I had seen the Window Seat video? I continued looking for my fuchsia leggings, turned it on, put him on speaker, and continued to chat. I sat down in front of the computer half way watching, listening, and then I noticed, "Erykah Badu is stripping?"
Then I tell him, wait, is she going to get naked?
He says, oh you haven't seen it, wait until the end.
We both sat there quiet as I listened, and watched. Absorbed.
The Evolving tattoo? **Done.
The awesome lace undies. ***Fancy drawls #somuchwinblackgirlwin.
Keep in mind that I have been bumping Turn Me Away (Get MuNNy) for the last four days. The fact that she says "Let me be your robot girl" had me in the air, as I have been on some #blackgirlsarefromthefuture since I got reacquainted with Janie and Their Eyes Were Watching God in January.
The video struck me for a few reasons.
First, American culture in general and pop culture specifically has never been a hospitable place for nude Black women. Let alone nude Black women making high concept music and music videos.
When I saw the video, I tweeted:
"When was the last time you saw a Black womens body and sensuality centered FROM her perspective in Pop Culture? ***waits."
"Real Spit. Window Seat is THE embodiment of Vulnerable y Fearless. Given the historical treatment of Black womens bodies in pop culture. +And American history. Window Seat feels like a lightweight Corrective for "Venus Hottentott" and thousands of nameless video vixens."
The second reason that video hit me in my gut because some of my work is on Black Women's sexuality and pop culture. THIS was the first time that I saw a self possessed Black women express her sensuality, within in pop culture.
Black women's bodies are ALL through rap videos, but their voices are muted. Interchangeable, silent bodies are how American Black women are presented to the world, globally, in music videos, by and large.
Think about it like this. If you watch Beyonce's Video Phone you may feel interested in the costumes and the dance moves. However, watching Window Seat you feel propelled forward. #blackgirlsarefromthefuture. Full stop. You sit there wantig to know what happens next. The distinction is the level of both intimacy and vulnerability that one performance has that the other lacks.
As I watched Erykah Badu, I thought of all the semi-nude and might as well be nude women in rap videos whose names we will never know, and if we don't know their names, why should we care about them and who they are.
And don't give me that "no one is putting a gun up to their head" to be in a video shit. People Love saying that, but d boys that sell crack "just need to feed they daughter." Miss me with those. Our choices are limited to our options.
The third reason is that the video reminded me of Renee Cox's work, in its fierceness, boundary pushing and its centering of a Black woman.
Renee Cox Yo Mama 1993
As I wrote this piece, I remembered that Erykah Badu tweeted a week or so ago that she had done one of the most scariest things in her life. I noticed the tweet and kept it moving. I now wager that, that experience must of been this music video.
I thank her for this, because it is the ultimate in being both vulnerable y fearless, which many of you know are two principles, I try as hard as possible to live by, and that I encourage others to do as well.
Other Reading Posts on Black Women's Bodies:
Michelle Obama and the Black Female Body
Buffie the Body is Venus Hottentott
Why is it that we see nude and semi nude Black women so frequently yet this video hits us somewhere else?
Thoughts on Window Seat?
Related posts:
- What Does Sex Have to Do With It? Carmen, Video Vixens and Hip Hop.
- Musing on Precious and Shaniya Davis
- Strippers, Video Vixens and Black Feminists
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Friday, March 26, 2010
Moya added an event
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New Amerykah Part II Listening Party at Quirky Commune
March 30, 2010 from 7pm to 10pm
Join us at the QC to celebrate the legendary QBG Erykah "on and on" Badu on the day of the release of her 6th studio album New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh! Bring a friend, Bring a bottle and bring some QBG love!
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Audio: Erykah Badu "Window Seat"
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Erykah has a plan, she announced it last week. She is releasing media (songs, videos, images) via her twitter at 3:33pm or 3:33am (Time Zone TBD) from now until the release of New Amerykah Part Two: Return of The Ankh available everywhere on 3.30.2010 AD. This started last Friday with the official leak of "Jump Up In The Air and Stay There" feat. Lil Wayne and Bilal. [...]
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Jump in the Air and Stay There
WTF?! I'm ahead of my time.
brilliant brilliant She's the truth!
Weezy on the track?! What?
get it in!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Take action and help the people of Haiti
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Hi, Like millions of people around the world I've been shocked by the terrible events in Haiti.
Only now is the true scale of the disaster emerging. Reports now suggest as many as 50,000 people may have died, with hundreds of thousands made homeless.
The work ahead to recover from this tragedy is immense. So here's our goal: $890 million for Haiti. That's how much Haiti owes to the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, and a handful of others.
Sign the petition below to ask Haiti's creditors to act quickly and cancel Haiti's debts:
http://one.org/international/actnow/haiti/index.html?rc=haiti
As Haiti begins to rebuild we can help by lifting this debt.
Together as ONE we can make a difference!
Thanks!
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