Music: Erykah Badu – ‘I Been Goin Thru It’ (Plus The Fader Cover Story)
Erykah Badu gives us new music dropping a remix titled ‘I Been Goin Thru It.’ She also covers the latest issue of The FADER Magazine where she talks about being a midwife in training, co-owning a new production company and more. Take a look at some of what she had to say in the interview and listen to her new song below. Read the full story over at The Fader.
On her influences:
Much of this sensibility, she says, she owes to the absurdity that backlights the blues, one of Dallas’s great cultural inheritances. “That’s my roots,” she says. “We have a part of Dallas called Deep Ellum. Deep Ellum was a deep, rich blues part of town.” She catalogues the legends—her forerunners—who flocked to the place to play: Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Johnny Taylor, Denise LaSalle.
On other artists:
“I think it’s cool what Beyoncé’s doing,” she says. “Kendrick Lamar is consciously writing and effecting change by showing the other side of what happens in his community. Believe it or not, NWA started out doing that too. ‘Gangsta, Gangsta’ was actually a parody.”
