Erykah Badu Interviews Kendrick Lamar
- BADU: How do you choose chicks from backstage?
- LAMAR: How do I choose chicks from backstage?
- BADU: Yeah, what is the protocol?
- LAMAR: I try not to. [laughs] I’m too scared. Anybody who knows me knows that I’m probably the most scared person when it comes to that because I’m so caught up in the act of sex, of something going crazy, going out of my control. I’m too paranoid.
- BADU: [laughs] So you just pass?
- LAMAR: I’ve got to because I’ve seen a situation where it got totally out of hand, where something seemed so innocent, and now this person has got allegations on them. It spooked me. This was before my career really started, though—before any “Kendrick Lamar.” And that right there? It changed my whole perception about certain things. I’ll always keep that in the back of my head.
- BADU: So who is your asshole-checker?
- LAMAR: Who is my what?
- BADU: Your asshole-checker—the person in your crew or your family who let’s you know if you’re being a asshole.
- LAMAR: I have two, actually. [both laugh] But the main one is a friend of mine—a lady friend who has known me since high school. She has always been someone, since day one, who has said something whenever I’m an asshole, or also if I’m doin’ something positive—but more so when I’m out of my element.
- BADU: What’s your favorite cereal?
- LAMAR: Fruity Pebbles. When people ask for my rider, they think I’m crazy: Fruity Pebbles, baked chicken, bottle of Hennessy, and some Polo socks.
- BADU: What do you, as a man, envy about what it means to be a woman?
- LAMAR: There’s just a certain knowledge instilled in a woman. There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante…
- BADU: That’s a good perspective. Something I envy that men have is that ability to grow a goatee. I think that’d be really hot on me.
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Turns out, eating a salad alone is the most depressing act. I want to shove this plastic fork into my heart.
Anonymous asked: I'm buzzed. I love you. (The two are not really related)
I LOVE YOU TOO, MICHELLE.
I saw pictures from the space shuttle
North America at night
I could almost see my house
I could almost see the rest of my life
Now my mothers in the hospital
And my friends are in the news
Collecting trophies for the songs they wrote
When we lived in the shadow of the moon
Guess I never make a gold record
And I have never been to mars
But I’ve traveled ’round this world
Shooting fireworks at falling stars
No prison bars
And my fathers got a decent job
I hear he’s finally pulling through
There’s more to life than singing songs we write
When we are in the shadow of the moon
I see colors
When I hear your voice
Grab your wings they’re putting gravity on trial
I see colors
I don’t hear the noise
Because we’re only flying for a while
Because we’re only flying for a while
I saw this picture of my niece
Twisting high above a narrow beam
And my brother looked so proud
Like he woke up in this perfect dream
And I’ve know you all my life
But I knew you long before that too
Lets go dancing to the songs we wrote
When we lived in the shadow of the moon
I see colors
When I hear your voice
Grab your wings
They’re putting gravity on trial
I see colors
I don’t hear the noise
Sometimes you’re only flying for a while
I could love you
In the falling rain
Grab your wings
This is a storm we’re meant to ride
Like Synesthesia
Aboard a stalling plane
It’s like we’re only flying for a while
I see colors
When I hear your voice
Grab your wings
They’re putting gravity on trial
I see colors
I don’t fear the choice
Because we’re only flying for a while
And I could love you
In the falling rain
Grab your wings
This is the storm we’re meant to ride
Like Synesthesia
Aboard a stalling plane
Sometimes we’re only flying for a while
I can see the colors running
When I hear the music play
(Source: Spotify)
Hey, Facebook, I really can’t handle another person I know getting engaged while I’m sitting at my parents house, bloated, watching Don’t be Tardy, drinking a $4 bottle of wine and listening to my parents argue over cheese.
