Erykah Badu Is Releasing A Mixtape Next Week

In an interview with Noisey that came out today, Erykah Badu announced that her new mixtape is arriving next week. She previously hinted at this project when she surprised the world with a remix of Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” “a cute song” that she couldn’t resist putting her own spin on. “I’m writing all the time,” she explained. “But recently I got the bug back. When it comes, it comes, and I can’t force it, but recently I got it back with ‘Hotline Bling’ and all the other things I’ve been experimenting with.” Those other experiments include a new one-woman show titled Live Nudity, which starts this week.

Though Badu has been quiet recently, she's been doing a lot of listening. She applauded the Drake/Meek Mill beef, exclaiming “That’s the way we’re supposed to handle it! I encourage it.” “I love Drake because he’s ever-evolving,” she added. “He keeps forecasting what will happen. He pays attention to what’s going on and then he embodies it. I love Young Thug. He kinda does the same thing. I love Wolf Gang. The whole Tyler, the Creator camp. What they’re doing in music as a whole with Frank Ocean and Earl Sweatshirt and the Internet... Syd the Kid. The whole movement is awesome.”

Read the whole interview here.