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Lessons learned from Erykah Badu’s Reddit AMA

"Badu is in the building, peace and light fam."

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Her effect on her partners’ style is strong and she knows it

“I think they prefer that over the MAN PURSE, i used to require.

badu is in the building. peace and light , fam.”

Some of her favourite ‘new school’ rappers aren’t so new

“kids from devine council, earl sweatshirt, thugger, john poppy, wiz,future, kanye still in there,gucci still in there…..”

But she’s really feeling Young Thug. And Tyler.

“i love thugger a lot. he’s grown in his art in his own lane… Tyler is a genius. period.”

She might have contributed to Drake’s career successes

“i made Drake my cinnamon / lime surprise… stirred it in the direction of the planet’s rotation.”

Gambino has a very specific, and unsurprising, scent

“he smells like a comic book store.”

Musically, she rolls with the punches

“i think that I’ve evolved with the times. put me on uranus (thats what she.. ) and ill make it work. I’m pretty mutable, i think.”

Her ideal man

“Tell your friend… I look for sober minded , compassion in an intelligent thug type.”

She’s backing Kid Cudi as album of the year… even if nobody else will

“YOU know what , I’m really digging what KID CUDI just put out. courageous.”

Don’t hold your breath for Jay Electronica’s album

“they’ll find big foot first..”

She’s for the T… and A

“both. not picky.”

Fresh off the back of her highly entertaining Twitter Q&A, Erykah Badu has taken to answering fan questions again. This time through Reddit, under one of her “many aliases” manuelamariamexico, where the questions are often more comprehensive, intrusive, or just downright trolling. It’s the perfect platform for Badu, in any case, as the questions she chooses to answer are a mix of industry inside info and serious life advice, delivered with that trademark don’t-give-a-fuck Badu attitude. Getting any sort of response from the singer will probably make your life, so I feel for the hundreds of comments that were left wanting. Although I can’t help but feel like a lot of the submissions would fall under the many categories of Badu’s voicemail, as highlighted at the end of ‘Cell U Lar’. Check out our favourites in the gallery above and read through the full thread here.