- Baduizm · 1997
- Baduizm · 1997
- Things Fall Apart · 1999
- Mama's Gun · 2000
- New Amerykah, Pt. 2: Return of the Ankh · 2009
- The Album (Deluxe) · 2020
- Erykah Badu: Live · 1997
- Go! - Common Classics · 2002
- Mama's Gun · 2000
- Baduizm · 1997
- Erykah Badu: Live · 1997
- But You Caint Use My Phone (Mixtape) · 2015
- Baduizm · 1997
Essential Albums
- Visionary R&B with hip-hop beats and a political heart.
- Badu outgrew her debut’s coffee house neo-soul with this raw, funky masterpiece.
- A blend of jazzy grooves and acid wit heralded the bohemian neo-soul star’s arrival.
Albums
2007
2005
2010
Artist Playlists
- She's a modern-day soul sister.
- A fearless diva mining music's diverse past.
- 2019
- 2003
- 2001
- 2000
Live Albums
- 1997
Appears On
- Strange Fruit Project
- Flying Lotus
- Supanovaslom
- Strange Fruit Project
More To Hear
- Nadeska celebrates 25 years of Erykah Badu's iconic debut album.
- Erykah Badu shares songs to help you breathe and stay centered.
- The artist shares songs to help you breathe and stay centered.
- The artist shares songs to help you breathe and stay centered.
- Erykah Badu shares tips and tracks for keeping up the fight on Ebro's show The Message.
- Joe Kay shares music from the Netherlands and France.
- Live from Porto, Portugal, DJ and producer Shaka Lion guests.
More To See
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About Erykah Badu
As fearless as she is unpredictable, Erykah Badu is one of American music’s true originals. Indeed, no one could have predicted just how unique her trajectory would be when the singer and songwriter—born Erica Wright, in Dallas, in 1971—first became a leading light of the neo-soul movement alongside friends like D’Angelo and The Roots with the 1997 release of her first hit single, “On & On,” and Baduizm, her impossibly cool full-length debut. While Badu’s deft and playful vocal delivery garnered early comparisons with Billie Holiday, her creative vision proved to be much broader than the slinky, coffee-bar-ready jazz and soul of her early releases. On 2000’s Mama’s Gun and both parts of 2008’s ambitious New Amerykah, Pt. 1 (4th World War), Badu crafted her own bewitching and sometimes bewildering brand of soul, funk, and psychedelia, which she laced with stinging sociopolitical commentary and sly humor. Blazing her own trail, she became an icon and inspiration to younger musical adventurers like Flying Lotus, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Tyler, The Creator, all of whom later became her collaborators. In 2015, Badu ended a seven-year hiatus as a recording artist with But You Caint Use My Phone, a deliriously odd and enthralling mixtape filled with her riffs and spins on Drake’s then-inescapable “Hotline Bling.” Only Badu could carry off such a wild idea and do it with such imagination and style.
- HOMETOWN
- Dallas, TX, United States of America
- BORN
- February 26, 1971