"FEEL HER BADUIZM"

FROM HER AFROCENTRISM TO HER CAPTIVATING LYRICS, QUEEN ERYKAH BADU IS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. BORN ERICA WRIGHT IN SOUTH DALLAS, THE 1ST LADY OF NEO-SOUL, WANTED TO GET RID OF HER "SLAVE" NAME EARLY IN LIFE CHANGING THE SPELLING TO ERYKAH---KAH MEANING INNER SELF. THE ARTS WAS INSTILLED IN HER AS A CHILD FROM PERFORMING WITH HER MOTHER AT THE DALLAS THEATRE CENTER. THERE WAS NO STOPPING THIS QUEEN FROM THIS POINT ON. BREAKING ON THE SCENE WITH "BADUIZM", HER LYRICS SEND A EVER CHANGING MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO CAN SEE, BUT ARE TRULY BLIND. HER LONG LIST OF HITS SUCH AS: ON AND ON, BAG LADY, NEXT LIFETIME, DIDN'T CHA KNOW-JUST TO NAME A FEW, SENDS ENLIGHTENMENT TO LOST SOULS WHO WERE STRIPPED OF THEIR HERITAGE AND CASTED AS A MINORITY. BADU'S LATEST ALBUM, NEW AMERYKAH, HIT RADIO WAVES LAST YEAR BUT ONLY RELEASING PART 1 (4TH WORLD WAR) OF HER TWO PART ALBUM. PART 2 (RETURN OF THE ANKH), IS SCHEDULED TO BE RELEASED LATER THIS YEAR. MS. BADU IS A BUSY BUSINESS WOMAN THESE DAYS FROM TOURING, MAKING APPEARANCES, AND BEING A TEACHER. OH, AND CANT FORGET, BEING A WONDERFUL MOM TO HER BEAUTIFUL KIDS: SEVEN, PUMA, AND MARS. AT THE END OF THE DAY, BADU JUST WANTS TO SPREAD HER "IZM" TO THE MASSES OF PEOPLE THAT ONCE WERE IN THE LIGHT OF GREATNESS.

WIKIPEDIA FOOD FOR THOUGHT: "Badu is also an African name for the 10th born child used for the Ashanti people in Ghana. Additionally in a letter written to Erykah from her father, "Badu in Arabic means truth and light...good choice kid." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erykah_Badu

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