Erykah badu tyrone who is it about11/11/2023 ![]() ![]() I guess no matter what your intention, you’re going to piss off somebody. Īnd although she’s angered some religious folks from time to time, including the entire country of Malaysia, she said she’s much more interested in bringing people of different religious beliefs together than she’s concerned with what divides them. Personally, I don’t choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. Her relationship with the spiritual world seems to be more personal than the constructs of any particular religion can provide. īut for Badu, the NGE is not a religion so much as a worldview. I want to recommend some reading for everyone who wants to expand in some kind of way their consciousness. In one video, she recommends a book about the history of the Five Percent Nation by saying, If we were made in his image/ Then call us by our names/ Most intellects do not believe in god/ But they fear us just the same Referring to the tenet that god lives in the individual, specifically the black individual, Badu sings, Her song “On and On” is particularly heavy on references. Her language and lyrics are laced with Five Percent imagery. ![]() Erykah Badu, whose name at birth was Erica Abi Wright, was born and raised in Dallas, Texas.īadu is an adherent of the Nation of Gods and Earths (NGE), or the Five Percent Nation. ![]()
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