Erykah Badu doubts that she’s the muse behind 2000 Outkast traditional “Ms. Jackson.” She joked, nonetheless, that the music may very well be referring to her mom, Kolleen Gipson.
The music was talked about in the course of the Wednesday (Oct. 22) episode of Popcast. Around the 30-minute mark of the episode, co-host Joe Coscarelli requested about Badu’s “role as a muse.”
The neo-soul vocalist has three youngsters amongst former companions André 3000 (previously of Outkast), The D.O.C., and Jay Electronica.
“So much great hip-hop has been made about you, including Outkast’s ‘Ms. Jackson,'” Coscarelli supplied.
“I don’t think ‘Ms. Jackson’ was actually about me. I don’t think so, but people say it,” Badu replied.
But Badu jokingly stated that the music may have been supposed for Gipson.
“Well, she thinks it was about her. She’s got the bumper sticker and the airbrush T-shirt,” she joked, including that the shirt reads “Sorry, Ms. Jackson.”
Badu and Three Stacks welcomed their son, Seven Sirius Benjamin, in 1997. The co-parents broke up two years later, though they’ve collaborated on songs like “Humble Mumble” and “Hello.”
Badu ultimately defined that she has impressed “many things” and has shared the “same path” with the fathers of her youngsters.
“Any person that I’ve come in contact with—specifically the fathers of my amazing children—I think that they were on that already. That’s why we sympathetically vibrated together,” she stated.
Badu gave Three Stacks props throughout her go to on Drink Champs final month, selecting the rapper over Black Thought of The Roots.
“Black Thought, you know I got love,” Badu stated. “But I think I may be one of Andre 3000’s biggest fans outside of being family. Super inspiring.”
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