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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-
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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
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formanees. there are
no barriers. When she
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says, “G odddam m tt,
A A rm asangm ysong," you
just know she w ill.
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space and time., it's how
Erykah stops singing during
her hypnotic, goldceitified hit
single, ‘-On & On" to not only
abandon song
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in c e n s e .
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attitude.
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when the
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it hast nothing to
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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
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and
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onya - R&B newest song
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Tonya’sdebutalbuni, It’s A Woman
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