The always eclectic Erykah Badu talks about life, music and love in a new interview with Giant Magazine. In the issue (set to hit stands on Feburary 11th), Erykah speaks on her exes, Common & Andre 3000:
Andre 3000 & Erykah have a son named Seven.
Common & Erykah when the were dating.
“I know about the backlash, the ‘Erykah Badu, if you look at her, she’ll make you change gods and wear crochet pants’ backlash,” she says. “But nobody looks at the things that those people have given to me.”
What have they given you?
“Just so much musical freedom. Common is the most humble person I ever met. Kind and generous. He reinforced that in me. Andre is very creative and artistic. All of that that you see of him, that’s all him. That’s how he is, and that gave me a creative push, too.”
Although Badu is fairly cryptic when discussing her old beaus, she allows this brief, whispered indulgence.
“With Andre, we were both very young, so we didn’t know what we wanted or anything. We just knew we were in love, and we didn’t care who saw us. With Common, it was a little bit more mature.”
Peep these dope KENNETH CAPPELLO photos from the Giant Mag shoot.
Related Links:
Giant Magazine interviews Erykah Badu [LINK]
Clutch Magazine interviews Erykah Badu [LINK]
God bless Ms. Badu for being SPUNKY, CREATIVE, and not giving a FCUK!
I admire that she praised and not bashed her former beaus. That’s a lady there!
damn, im gonna get that mag just for the erykah photos.
No matter how crazy they say she was and the backlash from her relationships, she is still a very creative and talented artist. Give it up to her.
There hasn’t been a woman in the world that will make me change God’s and wear crazy clothes. “The KAT is not that good”. Unless there is a halo on top of it.
Get at me!
Check out this link it is a pic of her daughter Puma….
http://mags25.blogspot.co...2/i-love-erykah-badu.html
she is sooooo goregous! can’t wait for her album to drop!
Ummm….Who is DOC?
@HR DIVA.. He is a rapper that use to be in the group NWA..
I just love her new song.
@ 60, THE TRUTH, Common has a daughter
he mentionned that in the Don Imus discussion on Oprah.
Erykah is a breath of fresh air in an industry of booty shaking/oily muscle and abs showing artists. She’s the TRUTH. A real trendsetter who’s already made history.
.. I think Puma looks like Common. Hum, she should take it to Maury for some testing. LOL
Commons Daughter is the same age at Seven I think.
Pardon my typo “Common’s”
The hypocrisy here is amazing. Here is a gifted, but scandalous hoe with two bastard children with at least one conceived while juggling relationships. Where is the outcry usually leveled at men?
Don’t kill the messenger.. Eddie sent me.
Common has a 13 yr old DAUGHTER.
Puma’s father is the rapper D.O.C. (yes, Funky Enough, D. O. C.)
Pardon my typo again man “as”
day 26….uhhhhmmmm..live on trl….on the 26th diddy made the band in the 26th
Gotta luv Apples!!! she is so compelling to look at , and I just noticed that she has freckles how cool me too!! (ok that was corny) but i think thats soo cute-anyways cant wait for the album I know she wont dissapoint
didnt she have a daughter with common also?
I love Erykah, but she really needs to stop with these illegitimate babies. Seriously,do something with yourself and stop having us all wondering who your children’s daddies are. How can you be all “mother earth” and don’t even respect yourself as your kids’ mother.
You and Lauryn need to stop shaming yourself in the name of creativity. Sh*t, I’m creative and I don’t have any kids…especially out of wedlock. Why? Because I respect myself enough to protect myself. Being a single mother is wonderful and all, but I cannot stand it when those same chicks turn around and complain how there are no good men out there so they are forced to live this vagabond way. There are plenty of good men, you just threw them away in your youth.
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i I LOVE MS. BADu! and Common and Dre! Common is sexxy !!!! so is dre!!! Her other childs name is Puma!!!! my favorite shoes and my cats name…
I think I can speak for myself and alot of other folks when I say I for one am not losing any sleep at night wondering about Mizz Badu’s babies daddy’s , and I think alot of women and single mothers agree that they were better of disposing these mysterious droves of” good men” in theyre youth ! Im sorry I just cant stand self-righteous women they re my peeve espicially the ones who are ignorant enough to look at another womans life and assume to understand what shes been through and where she went “wrong”
I’m sure Dre and Common could be cool dudes as far as entertainers go , but the only ones who know the details of thier relationship and basically the only ones who should really care are the parties who were actually involved!
Cute pics!
Does ne1 have proof Erykah’s 2nch child is with DOC? I bet my head for a football that it’s with Dre. Anyone notice in her new video, she replicates his Hey Ya! vidoe. Badu duzn’t seem like she wood have 2 baby daddies(not that there’s anything wrong with that)….I bet they are secretly back 2gether….just my opinipn;)
im just jealous that she had andre and common lol
but those pics are dope!
lol @ all the spensters calling her a hoe and having kids out of wedlock…if i opened your closets, i’m sure some skeletons will fall out…no one is perfect…she’s a grown ass woman and can do whatever the hell she wants…i don’t care who she’s banging or whose baby she’s having…as long as she keeps making music, she’s good by me…Go Badu!!!
just brilliant, love you erykah…and that masai necklace you rockin in the first pic is just stunning, big up!!
Erykahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh let’s do a song together!!!!!
this looks like a host of myspace pics to me. the shoot couldve been peter
luv the pics
i love these shots of erykah! she’s soooo positive & beautiful!!!
We all go through life experiencing different relationships and people. If we are lucky we find some who stay friends and resonate with us beyond this world. I hope that they were that for each other. Black love is ancient like water!
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Erykah is so real and tight.Get the Albumn Yall Feb ’08
why doesn’t she talk about the white man that fathered her daughter coz the father is neither common nor the d.o.c as so many people are lead to believe..that’s why she wouln’t disclose who the real father is…