But R&B fans are not immune to having short memories, either. Badu as an outsider-and, frankly, she is. In a past generation Badu (who favors tall, head-turning, African turbans) might have been called "uppity," and amongst the black audience today she is seen variously as the "princess" or the "hipster" or simply the classic "over-achiever" who wants to keep her feet in the folksy world of chitlin' circuit R&B while keeping her head in the rarefied cash-money air of the hiphop scene.Ĭhitlin' circuit purists like to think of the Texas-bred Ms. After all, few vices in Southern Soul R&B are as rare as hubris. Prodigiously talented and self-aware, Erykah Badu walks a very fine line artistically speaking, one that has gained her detractors as well as admirers. There's nothing wrong with that, but it is our loss. In her private life, Badu may be too comfortable, too happy-without that special "hunger" for an audience that fuels the great performers. She's dabbled in musical projects and worked as an actress, most prominently in 2004's "House Of D" with Robin Williams. The pity is that Badu isn't really lighting up the hiphop world either. Which means she is becoming less and less relevant to Southern Soul. Nice poses in the guide below-will Erykah Badu continue to drift away from traditional R&B into hiphop-the answer is yes. Now the curious can sample the real thing, something they couldn't do pre-2000.Īs to the question your Daddy B. What has changed is the accessibility of Southern Soul music. It's easy to forget that 99% of Southern Soul's potential audience is still out there, untapped. Not only that-I still think it fulfills the same function today. I needed a reference point (and "Tyrone" was a good one) to give them an inkling of what this "southern soul" music was all about.
So the insertion of a Badu Artist Guide wasn't a slap in the face to chitlin' circuit artists (whose potential space it took) it was a conscious decision to throw a "rope" out to the mainstream music fan. I followed the hiphop scene with the fanaticism with which I now follow Southern Soul, and at the time nobody-I mean nobody outside the Deep South-wanted to believe traditional R&B still lived, i.e. Nice's #67 ranked Southern SoulĪuthor's Forward: It seems like I wrote this critique in another century, and that's almost true. Erykah Badu - Southern Soul Music Artist - Southern Soul RnBĮrykah Badu Daddy B.
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