Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
Erykah BaduEven if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
Erykah BaduIt's weird, but if I decide to do an album, then the ideas start fitting themselves together. I consider myself a nice, slow burn. Plus, it's not a race. And I have a lot to share.
Erykah BaduI don't know... I've been doing it for 17 years now, so of course I've seen pictures and thought, "Oh my god, I wish I would've never worn that." Yeah, but I did! And it was probably because it was my favorite thing at the time - my clothes always have some kind of emotion attached to them.
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