Erykah Badu interview: “Hip hop used to be about skill, now the focus is on slander”
Erykah Badu sees five doctors a day. Sort of. There’s Dr Exercise, Dr Nutrition, Dr Meditation, Dr Sleep and Dr Sun, she tells me from New York, where she has already had a busy morning seeing each of them in turn.
‘I didn’t feel like getting up at 5am,’ she admits. ‘The first thing I wanted to do was go to Instagram and see what the people said about what I posted yesterday. But instead of that I stay true to the discipline.’ Barefaced and framed by a simple T-shirt, she sits but never slouches; as poised as she is relaxed, her every sentence is like a bedtime story: ‘Now I’m ready for you.’
Born Erica Wright in Dallas, , and known globally as the godmother of neo soul, the 53-year-old first embarked on her wellness journey as a dance, veganism, midwifery and her own line of cannabis, tailored specifically to women. Even ‘wokeness’ as it is defined today can be traced back to Badu.
