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Page B3 N O V . 2 6 ,1 9 9 7 U fr Partía ttè 'V í/tdj NTERTAINMEHT On October 1,1997. during a live in- studio avoiding session in New York for die Erykah Badu •‘Live’' album. Kediir Emertainment/Univeixal re- coaling artist Erykah Badu con- ■ firmed there is life in lier womb, love in her heart, magic in her gestures and elders in her eyes. Called, anointed, beloved,she came-belly button poking I fflii' IJnrthuxò (Obscrucr B- ate charm ed. I'm f sure. Witli live per- formanees. there are no barriers. When she ■ asks: ” Y’aJI feel that?" trud i be told, W hen she says, “G odddam m tt, A A rm asangm ysong," you just know she w ill. U k e die scat she's so V named. Badu is all about I «» space and time., it's how Erykah stops singing during her hypnotic, goldceitified hit single, ‘-On & On" to not only abandon song . and sip tea ■ k for real; btn j^fcpalsobo-itk »Ifc dogm a-litW •* in c e n s e . candles & attitude. Eve n when the ^ ’continued, "I promise you it hast nothing to ?; f do with my pa*g- ; F nancy.’’ .And you b proud dirough her wrap-to the beat of Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon M an.’’ her background singers using voice as peaussion and Pygmy calls. Just weeks before, she’d completed a summer-long stint on die road with the Smokin' ( hooves tour promoting her eriiiutlly-atclaiined. multi-Platini ini debut album Baduizm. Badu took to the road, building bridges, gettin’ her hustle on, creating a Soul N ation and s p re a d in g Bitdufznv-not a religion or i,W . 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