Erykah badu mixtape 2015 andre 3000 biography
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Erykah Badu used to ask fans at her concerts to put their phones away, and for a brief time in the mid- and late-aughts, they would listen. Today, it’s a little harder. Phones are more than just phones; they're barely phones, in fact. Asking someone—a distracted co-worker or friend or lover—to put a mobile on silent and slip it into a purse or a pocket means something different now than it did a decade ago. It’s like asking them to put their life on hold. For a celebrity to make that request while lording over an audience from a stage can feel prickly and selfish. At this weekend’s Soul Train Awards, which Badu hosted and performed at, she made a show out of confiscating Tyrese’s phone. It was likely scripted and accordingly un-prickly, but it was somehow almost necessary. At the same event, she staged a phone call with Iggy Azalea. “You’re definitely not rap,” she said in part-jest, part-truth, tacitly acknowledging that phones aren’t all bad—there can also be power and humor in them.
All of those ideas exist in Badu’s newly released mixtape, But You Caint Use My Phone, too. The project feels urgent. Not just because it’s the 44-year-old’s first full-length release in five years, but because it's 2015 and it’s about time someone made a concept album entirely about phon
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André 3000
American doorknocker (born 1975)
Musical artist
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Erykah Badu’s mixtape arrived today via Apple Music, and it features a surprise appearance from André 3000, the mercurial rapper who is also the father of Badu’s first child. These days, it’s legendarily difficult to get André on a track. “I struggle with the verses,” he told The New York Times in 2014. “I don’t sit around and write raps. I just don’t.”
But there are exceptions to the rule: “Now the only time I’m really inspired to write raps is if an artist I enjoy invites me to their party.” Badu extended an invitation, and André showed up on “Hello,” one of the highlights of But You Cain’t Use My Phone. Check out a history of Badu and André’s relationship below, and revisit FADER's interviews with eachartist.
Sometime in the mid-‘90s:
Badu’s story of meeting André is slightly muddled. “It was 1997,” she said during a Red Bull Music Academy talk in 2013. “My single came out Februrary 7th—‘On and On.’ I heard it in New York in a club and met André that night. No, that’s a year before. Let me back up. Two years earlier I met André at the club and they played the song ‘On and On.’ Two years later, Februrary 7th, ‘On and On’ came out on the radio. February 11th, I got pregnant.” André would later explain the circumstances of their meeting on Speakerboxxx/The L