You Loving Me..

You loving me and I'm driving your benz;

You loving me and I'm spending your ends;

You loving me and I'm drinking your gin;

You loving me and I'm fucking your friends.

Badu at Lollapalooza

I watched Badu perform last night before the house party. Hearing her sing "The Healer" made me love it that much more... And guess what?! She's BLONDE!!! Yesss!! She had a fierce blonde mohawk. Badu, I love you.

Window Seat Remix

My Eyes Are Green

At least that's what many guys think. You see, for the longest I wore green contacts. Acuvue colorblends. They actually looked REALLY natural on me.  Like they ACTUALLY fit me. I remember my first time walking on Morehouse campus this guy walked out of his way to come up to me and say "Excuse me but I really couldn't walk past you without saying you have the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen". I simply smiled my Bee smile and said thanks as he walked away.

My roommate didn't know my eyes weren't green until she saw me taking out my contacts one night before bed. My first boyfriend in the A also didn't know my eyes weren't green until these guys had a bet and asked and I said "No" for like the first time EVER. smh.

Maybe its the color of my skin or my hair or maybe the shape of my eyes that made it seem believable that I had green eyes. Hell for the longest I actually forgot my eyes were big brown and beautiful instead of sultry & green.

My eyes are green because I eat alot of vegetables.. It has nothing to do with acuvue colorblends! *Erykah Badu voice*

Fear and Love

Our emotions have a vibratory frequency to them. There are only two emotions that human kind experience: Fear & Love. All other emotions branch either directly or indirectly from these two emotions. Fear has a long and slow frequency vibration to it, while love has a very rapid and high frequency to it.

Awwww...

The background music was a bit much in the beginning. I blame the guitarist. lol.. Drake, maybe you need to get in a few more sessions with your vocal couch. I know its hard to sing these songs live though.. But autotune is that shit. I get what you tried to do.. A bit of a rock influence. rockers dont have the best voices either. I still love you though. We can perfect our voices together. & to prove that there are NO hard feelings Aubrey-- I posted a video of ME singing earlier today. I still love you & I FUCKS with "Thank Me Later" the LOOOOOONG way..

Tyrone

I love Miss Badu so I decided to dedicate this song to all of you broke ass dudes & to my musical soulmate, Erykah. *sigh* She DOES follow me on twitter @fatbellybella :)

Other Side Of The Game

Now me and baby got this situation... You see the brother's got this complex occupation. And it ain't like he don't have education cause I right there at his graduation. Now I ain't saying that this life don't work but its me and baby that he hurts. Because I tell him right he thinks I'm wrong but I love him strong..

Window Seat

A Five Year Old Reviews Window Seat

What inspired this post was a tweet I read that went something like “how would you feel if her cooch was in your child’s face for art sake” or something close to that. So I sat down with my “assistant” TH, clicked on the ankh, watched and asked questions as we went along. [SH is the mother, TH is the daughter]

SH: What do you think of this?

TH: I like the music. Is it jazz? I like jazz.

SH: There are parts of it that have jazz.

TH: She was driving a big car.

SH: I know. What do you think of her, the lady walking?

TH: I think she is pretty. She is beautiful, perfect.

SH: Why do you think that?

TH: She just is. It’s sunny in the movie. It’s raining outside.

SH: Yes, I know it’s raining. What is she doing now?

TH: She’s walking down the street. Is that her singing?

SH: Yes, that is her singing.

TH: I like her voice. It is like mine.

SH: OK, yeah. She does have a nice voice. What’s happening now.

TH: She’s taking off er clothes. It’s probably hot.

SH: Hmm, well what do you think about that?

TH: I like it when it’s hot.

SH: What do you think about her taking off her clothes?

TH: It’s OK. Sometimes you need to take off your clothes. I like to take my clothes off.

SH: You do? How does it make you feel?

TH: I feel free. I like being naked.

SH: How do you think she feels?

TH: She feels naked and cool and free.

SH: But she is naked outside.

TH: That’s OK. It’s just her body. I have a body. Daddy has a body. You have a body and boobies.

SH: Yes, we all have bodies and mommy has boobies.

TH: That’s why it is OK. We all have one. We are all peoples (not a typo, she said “peoples”).

SH: Yes, we are all people.

TH: Mommy, she has boobies too.

SH: Yes, Erykah Badu has boobies too. So it is OK to show your boobies outside?

TH: Yes, but only if you want to because they are yours. Oh mommy, she fell down!

SH: Yes she did. She was shot.

TH: Why?

SH: Why do you think?

TH: Because she was naked and cool and free?

SH: Maybe.

Kids are so much more intelligent than we give them credit for..

:)

I love sarcasm, & sarcastic people. I love Erykah Badu.

**Sad that even though she's being funny, this shit is true.. I'm gonna blog about this later.**

Erykah Badu Interview About Window Seat

DALLASNEWS.COM: Erykah Badu spoke with Quick’s Hunter Hauk first about her new video for “Window Seat,” as the story spread Monday of her guerilla film-making tactics and her nudity. The song is from her just-released album New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh. 

Q: To start, what can you tell me about the thought process behind the video for “Window Seat”? 

EB: It was filmed Saturday (March 13) before St. Patrick’s Day. It was a pretty spontaneous thing. The song “Window Seat” is about liberating yourself from layers and layers of skin or demons that are a hindrance to your growth or freedom, or evolution. I wanted to do something that said just that, so I started to think about shedding, nudity, taking things off in a very artful way. I am from the theater, and this is just a part of expression to us, a part of art. And I saw a video by a group called Matt and Kim, and it was filmed in Times Square. And I thought it was the bravest, most liberating thing I’ve ever seen two people do. And I wanted to dedicate this contagious act of liberation and freedom to them. I hoped it would become something contagious that people would want to do in some way or another. 

Q: And what was the thinking on the location and the Kennedy element to it? 

A: Times Square is the most monumental place in New York, and when I was thinking of monumental places, the grassy knoll was the most monumental place in Dallas I could think of. I tied it in a way that compared that assassination to the character assassination one would go through after showing his or her self completely. That’s exactly the action that I wanted to display. 

Q: And I take it you knew that there would be a similar real-life reaction when the video was released? 

A: Yeah. I knew that would happen, so as soon as the thought came to my mind, I decided to assassinate myself as a gesture. Because it was going to happen anyway. The video is a prediction of what is happening now. 

Q: Tell me about the logistics of filming. Was it really nudity, or was there trickery involved? 

A: Oh no, it was straight guerilla cam. I got out of the car and I went for it. A day before, I took the same path alone to see where I was going and to see where the “x” spot was. And we only had one shot to get it right, and I decided to go at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. I told the cameraman that I would meet him there, and when he saw me pull up, he started. We had to speed the music up because we wanted the effect to be slow-motion. 

Q: So, it all happened a lot faster than it seems, but there was still time for people to realize what was going on. Were you afraid of the immediate reactions from folks? 

A: Yes. I was petrified, period. The whole thing was frightening. The whole idea was frightening. Not being in love with my body, not being secure about being vulnerable, the police coming to take me to jail. I’m breastfeeding right now. Anything I could think of, I did. But those little things diminished as I thought about the big picture. And, as I started to walk, I confronted a lot of fears, and I hoped that it would encourage others to do the same thing in their own way. 

Q: Are you afraid of any ramifications now, since the city of Dallas has come out with a statement referring to their disapproval of “guerilla filmmaking”? 

A: No. That fear left when I fell to the ground. With the death of that part of me, a lot of those fears died as well. I had a paradigm shift, of sorts. 

Q: So, this was meaningful for you in a more important way than just making a video or stunting? 

A: Yes. 

Q: Do you have anything else to say to the folks who aren’t having a positive reaction to this? 

A: Sure, I would like to say that it was a protest to awaken a term called “groupthink.” It’s a term that was coined in 1952. It’s the recognition of a state of being for humans. It’s human nature for a person to be afraid to express his or her self in fear of being ostracized by the group or general consensus. A lot of times people are judged unfairly because of that. I think about the Salem witch trials; I think about the assassination of Christ, I think about the character assassination of artists and celebrities on blog sites. I think about all of these things as groupthink. And when I fall to the ground in the video, the word groupthink spills out of my head, because I was assassinated by groupthink. … 

When I told my mother what I wanted to do, she was not 100 percent confident that it was the right thing, but she was supportive. I shared it with my family and made sure I told them that this act is not in any way a reflection of who they all are. It’s who I am. They said I had their support. I have young children whom I was considerate of and I told them what I was doing. My 5-year-old said, “OK, Mommy, can I have some more pudding?” My 12-year-old said, “It’s all right because I can explain to everyone that my mother is a wonderful person and she’s just having fun.” After hearing that, I took myself a lot less seriously. 

Q: Did you consider the children in the plaza that day? 

A: I didn’t think about them until I saw them, and in my mind I tried to telepathically communicate my good intent to them. That’s all I could do, and I hoped they wouldn’t be traumatized. The people that got caught in the shot seemed as if they didn’t even see me. There were a couple of people, and a guy picking up clothes. It all happened so fast. Of course they saw the camera, so they knew we were shooting something. But it was a great day for me. 

Q: So, no regrets? 

A: No regrets. Move forward from here.

Window Seat

What do you think about it?? Can you focus on the message & not the fact that she's naked? SMH. Yes her body is the business but she isn't shaking her ass or dancing at all. Nudity with meaning. Can we not see the naked body & not immediately think of sex?

@fatbellybella

Erykah Badu RT'd me. She @replied to me. She Follows me. =]

She retweeted me like 5-6 times ;)

Yes. I'm eeked up. :) EEEEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Window Seat

Video. Bombness. Indescribable. Watch it. You'll see what I mean. www.erykahbadu.com

** I wanna walk down the road naked now. I won't explain the video. Watch & interpret it yourself. Learn. **

Erykah Badu Follows ME!!!

If you've been keeping up with me lately then you know that I love me some Erykah Badu. She's a fellow Texan too ya know. I feel her music on another level. Now that I'm older I know the meaning behind the words but as a child I just thought it sounded like ME. I was so happy that I had an artist to look up to who spoke to me. Nobody else was showing that true African beauty. Rockin a fro. Singing about something other than shaking my ass..

I sung On & On in a talent show at my daddys house when I was like 10 & got boo'd out the water. everyone got a perfect score but me. i got a 60. they called me miss sixy =/ but i kept on singin On&On bc I felt that song. lol..

Now she follows me on twitter. I'm overjoyed =]

Miss Badu

I fuckin love you. I can't wait...

Window Seat

Last night, @Fatbellybella hit up Jimmy Fallon & performed her newest song. Enjoy :)


Don't act like Erykah body hasn't always been the business though. If I were a singer, Erykah would you sing with me?? Yes, you would. I love this song. So smooth. I love me some Erykah!!! ♥

I love..

Me some Erykah. Been jammin mama's gun all damn day.. plus her new song window seat. I love her fro. Inspires me to let my hair grow & say no to the creamy crack.. :)

How I Feel..

but can i get a window seat?
dont want nobody next to me..
i just want a ticket outta town,
a look around,
and a safe touch down.
i just need a chance to fly,
a chance to cry,
and a long
bye bye..

The Reason Why...

... I'm probably cooler than you. I liked MJ before his death. I was into Erykah Badu/Prince/Queen/TheBeatles prior to me graduation High School-- I've always been THIS way & some of you choose to listen to certain styles of music bc it seems different. Growing up this shit seemed NORMAL. Here's a snap shot from the fbook..