Erykah Badu Covers FADER - (News)

Erykah Abi Wright also known as the great "Erykah Badu" is now on the cover of FADER's 103rd issue, the "Producer Issue" (alongside Metro Boomin) for April/May 2016. In her interview with Vinson Cunningham, Badu opens up on her family and children, her political views, and her somewhat conservative nature. Badu also talks her social media interactions with her near-2 million Twiter followers. Erykah recently came under fire for expressing her views on the hemlines on schoolgirls' uniforms.

Here's a small portion of interview here:She sees our political present as a test of seriousness on more than one front. "We can organize like a motherf*cker when police beat us up," she says. 'But can we organize to stop black-on-black crime, or poor-on-poor crime? Because, you know, poor is the new black. You don’t have to be black now."

Positions like these, some of them surprisingly conservative, have become an increasingly prominent aspect of Badu’s persona, especially online—where, weeks after my visit to Dallas, she sparked a Twitter storm by calling for longer skirts in girls’ school uniforms. That she has taken up the tools of current-day virality to spread, and defend, unpopular stances is a paradox that strangely befits her: art, for Badu, begins with the individual voice, however heterodox.

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