And that means,'' she said, suddenly pumping a fist in the air, ''that I! Am! Victorious!'' The audience burst into cheers. It's 2001 now, and everybody is pushing it and being free. Badu told the BET interviewers, ''I think the kind of music I was allowed to share with everybody was rare. ''Baduizm'' carved a new place for women in 1990's rhythm and blues. I wanted to do something brave, to just make room for new things.'' ''It was just something that I knew I wanted to do right now. ''I didn't give a lot of thought to it,'' she said. I would probably physically become ill having to hold in all of the love and sorrow and excitement and happiness and sexuality.'' I think if I was not able to sing and perform for people, I would die. Anyone who lets me get up there, I'll go. Badu said, ''All the time I just want to perform. ''I'm a starving artist I'm hungry for the stage,'' Ms. She keeps an apartment in Brooklyn, along with a house in her hometown, Dallas.
She released hit singles (most recently ''Bag Lady'') and made guest appearances on albums and in concert with rappers and singers including D'Angelo, Common, Burning Spear and the Roots, garnering another Grammy for a single with the Roots, ''You Got Me.'' Last summer and fall she turned up onstage at half a dozen rap and rhythm and blues concerts in New York City. She played Rose Rose, a young woman with an unwanted pregnancy, in the 1999 film ''The Cider House Rules.'' Her 1997 live album sold two million copies, carried by her caustic song about a deadbeat boyfriend, ''Tyrone.''
But while she stopped touring, she kept working. Everybody wants him, and he's a happy kid, unless he's faking for me.''ĭuring Seven's first two years Ms. He's the kind of baby that doesn't cry to be picked up but cries to be put down. ''Seven has too many parents, if you ask me, too many opinions. ''Although Andre and I are not a couple, we are still a family, so I can't even claim that single-mother stamp,'' she said, riding in a sport-utility limousine after the BET taping to a late-night rehearsal on Long Island. That album is the gun: use those words, those feelings, to solve the problems.'' And there's no better protection than your mama's words. ''I've become a mama,'' she said, ''and I figure my son is going to need some protection when he goes out in his world. The album title, she said, is a metaphor. Badu released her second studio album, ''Mama's Gun'' (Motown), and her performance on BET last week was a warm-up for a cross-country tour that started on Saturday in Cleveland and arrives at Radio City Music Hall on Valentine's Day.
With her almond eyes, high forehead, long cheekbones and broad lips, she looks more than ever like a Benin mask. Badu reveals a new invisible hairdo: she has recently shaved her head. Now, stepping on to the shiny set of the Black Entertainment Television cable network's Top 10 countdown show, ''106 and Park,'' Ms. When her first album, ''Baduizm,'' appeared in 1997, she wrapped her hair in tall cylinders of African-patterned fabric, turning concealment into a crown. The most famous unseen hair in popular music belongs, without question, to Erykah Badu.
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