This song was my life at the time it came out. I was married to a good guy deep in the streets!!!! I tried and tried to get him to leave that life alone. I had money, diamonds, and cars but was living in a constant state of worry!!!! But I loved him strong!!!! Thank God for growth. Although we eventually divorced he managed to turn his life around for the sake of our baby girl!!! Thank you Erykah for singing me through one of the roughest times in life!!!
Well done for staying strong throughout all the challenges that you were presented. Good on you baby girl! Much kudos and respect to you honey. Keep doing what you are doing. Peace out to you Princess.❤❤
@@Wynter59-yme hilarious your name is badbaby1987 im def the baby girl in that story all grown up and my parents stayed together and will be having a 35 wedding anniversary next june ! less things but a much more peaceful life from my early childhood memories
Two young people in love who were musicians that decided to star in a music video together. Everyone loved this music video featuring them. It was released before their son was born. The nineties was a wonderful time to be alive.
Man I really wish there was some type of documentary on just Erykah & Andre’s relationship at this time in ‘97.. Like I can feel their energy through the screen. This is like the most authentic aesthetic I’ve ever seen.
What I absolutely adore about this is how the most mundane things are elevated and we are invited to glimpse at life's simple yet beautiful moments like her wiping her face, a random kiss here, Andre opening the windows, her cutting a grapefruit/orange, Andre accidentally leaving the tap open 3:22 and so on. There is no studio budget that can buy that level of genius.
This woman understood the struggle. Never changed on her people. Made music for us. Then our people called her crazy cause they didn't understand "themselves", Yet she never turned her back to us. I love this melanin enriched goddess.
Yes 🥰 it's not often that are women show's the beauty of just being the black goddist They truly our. So how are you to find the King in yourself.with a white washed woman.We are King 👑 not queens.just keeping it 💯 Love you all, Sisters and Brothers.
Erykah is such an underrated natural beauty in the mainstream. She makes it so fashionable to have full lips and afro texture hair. Am proud to have such features.
Not many notice this mv was shot in ONE take simply because the genius direction and movement of both the camera and artists. Just beautifully and intelligently executed not to mention a masterpiece of a song and message
@@JustaN00bi3 WELL I'M AN OLD DUDE NOW,SO I GOTTA SAY THE 70'S FIRST FOR ME,THEN THEN THE 80'S AND THEN THE 90'S IN THAT ORDER,BUT I RESPECT YOUR OPINION AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
THANK YOU!!! I'm so sick of these complaining about my Erykah, they say they would like it if they wanted to sleep. Me, Erykah Badu gets my day started on a good note so take y' all asses to sleep then......
*It has been an eclipse. Yet the pleasure is all mines.* *Somehow your words are spiritually impactful in this season likewise as they were many many moons 🌟🌙 ago.*
I come here every once in a while to wonder what on Earth happened to my culture? I was in college when this album hit. I thought the black community was in a Renaissance, we were seeing ourselves like THIS. It was beautiful. Thank you.
When she first appears in the video, she is so stunning and in the end when she takes off her scarf and lets her hair out you just ask yourself why is this lady so gorgeous .
She's the gold standard in modern black women. Strong, highly intelligent, gifted, and supportive for her loved ones. As I can tell, she is the ideal woman for me. I feel that she and I would have been the perfect couple. Too bad we never met. Oh well, I will see her next lifetime.
One of the most beautiful realest Afrocentric couple in hip hop/black culture, periodt. I thank God that my parents exposed me to the true meaning of love and music at that time. Good times ❤️✊🏾
Oh, God. This brings back a great moment. 1998 my boys and me were working in Johannesburg, South Africa. One night we were headed back on the road @ 3 AM from a party 5:20 with this song coming through the speakers. South African nights are magical.
My mom used to play the live version of this album every Saturday while we were cleaning the house and now I do the same. Baduizm live is my favorite albums.
I just came home after 9+ years in VA.'s prison system & any one who knows me can tell you this song carried me throughout my bid. Now that I'm finally free, I'm seeing the"Other Side Of The Game" fa' real... to all those still in "the life", take time to realize & treasure your freedom & all that comes with it- your family & your loved ones especially
Our people are beautiful beyond measure! We come in all variations! I want all my SIStars to know, your Afro defies gravity. There is no other race that carries 9ether. Think of the image you are creating for your daughter, burning your hair on a daily basis, chemically processing and attaching hair that does not resemble your hair. I know many insecure girls and women. I was one of many. However, today 25/01/2020 I can say... l am a proud African Wombman, authentically ME! Self-Love is where I AM @. My town is Happiness. ~ I AM Beloved Positive-One
+NemRaps So cozy and comfortable...I see myself floating along the California coast at midnight in a 69 drop top corvette...It's cold out...but this beat keeps me warm.
You gotta try listening to the slowed reverb version of this......wow it's is a WHOLE other level, jesus.....look for the video with a cube candle, a plant and a black background....that one ❤️🤌🏾🤌🏾
This whole video is her gliding serenely around this confusing apartment layout, looking vaguely distraught while putting various pieces of fabric on. Absolutely iconic.
That sonic change in this video at 2:36 is awesome. Love how it switches to that full on airy live feel for a couple seconds. Not sure if it was intentional but I loved it.
In 1997 I was 9, I remember watching this with my cousins, loving the vibe. But now 34, I have a new appreciation, noticing things I never realized before. The sonogram from their baby 😍❤❤
Maaaaaaaaan, my mom used to play the shit out of this album when I was a kid. I remember her playing it all the time when we lived in Chicago during car rides. I've been a Badu fan every since then.
This is beautiful 😍 Definitely Maxwell inspired!!! I literally went down a rabbit whole and came acrossed a clip from a tic tock that was posted on IG from a whole nother person but I'm so happy to be here!!!!!!! ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️ However it needed to happen. 🥰
Marvin Paul right!! I caught the Lauren & 3000 look at the end. Just a quick question, who do u think influenced who 3000 influenced her or vice versa? Maybe their style was the same before knowing of each other, either way I think it’s dope. I just find things like that interesting, for instance, my gf was nvr into tennis shoes but after being w/ me for so long she kinda goes for the same look as me. She’s from outside of the city too so now the slang we use, she has picked up on from hearing me so much. To me, she’s a great budgeter & that’s the main thing I follow😂 Long story, less long i find it interesting how we imitate those we are around. Especially those we love & admire. An interesting tid bid to my question, I heard she had a few artist “whipped” & I wanna figure out the lore to her attraction. Besides looking like today’s cleopatra
@@dorenjackson1166 in one of the outkast songs, Andre says he saw a singer on stage with dreads similar to his. So lol they just so happened to meet each other with this hair style
I don’t know if anyone else can hear or feel this, but Badu was playing with frequencies in this track. I kept feeling deep relaxation in my neck and shoulders throughout.
Witchcraft, her music puts people under a spell. Andre 3000, her baby daddy, and the guy in the video once said "I met a gypsy", he was talking about her.
I love Erykah Badu, she is such a talented & thoughtful writer. This song is like someone pointed a camera at a couple & took a photograph that is a portrait of the single most important moment in their lives & relationship. Even a month after Erykah Badu made this photograph, the couple would already be changed. Questions would begin to be answered, decisions made, uncertainties resolved for better or worse. 5 years later one of them might find this photograph again--maybe they're together, maybe they're apart, but they will never again look the way they looked in this photograph by Erykah Badu.
Experienced Erykah at Radio City Music Hall in '98 .. BEST Concert EVER!! She had the Whole Audience in the Palm of her HANDS!!! Brilliant and will NEVER Forget it!! xoxoxoxoxoo
One of the best videos EVER made depicting real love, and a peaceful, playful, nurturing home between a black man and woman. Friendship, synergy and commitment all in one!!! CLASSIC!!!!! I still just LOVE IT!!!!!!!💯😊😊😊
I'm 29 caught up in the streets, got a BEAUTIFUL woman & children who love me dearly and I swear this song just brought tears to my eyes because I know the risks and so want to get out of the game. The hustle gives us all a life we never had though so it's hard to leave but I know it's the right thing to do 😔 hopefully I do before it's too late 🙏🏾💫✨
Literally my favorite Erykah Badu song of all-time. I love how she conveys her relationship with Andre 3000 in this video. And to see her pregnant with their son, Seven. This was Literally the best pregnancy announcement
I think this is one of my favorite videos. Just perfect. Loved the way the music sounded when it transitioned to sounding as if the sound was just playing in their apartment.
She tore the house down in Philly. She tested her microphone levels and sung it with the band. This lady is better than 90% of the artists out and I've heard and see a lot.
Time of song of snow allegro moderato for the credentials are doing well and blossoming full out of the house notes stocks comparison option for class tomorrow morning at says as well so w2í bank account to know further information from the form of books for the running around with the chapter of the day off for class tomorrow morning
I really don't know how I missed this back in the day, but am so glad I found it, today. Such smooth lyrics and beat, both flow into each other so seamlessly. Nice!
See how music was futuristic... everything she spoke was truth the past present and so the future... look at us now ... who cannot relate to her observations? We might have not lived such lives but look around you our people are living this song ...
I love how all of her videos start with "A story by Erykah Badu", it's almost as if She let's us into her mind for the duration of the video, cause this is what she's imagining with this song. 👌🏻
_itsMyesha__ YES WE DO. BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THE BROTHERS TODAY IS NOT ON THAT PAGE WITH US. HOW CAN WE MAKE THEM KNOW THAT GOD CREATED US TO MATE UP. THEIR HEAD IS SOMEPLACE ELSE. THEY CANT RELATE TO WHAT WE NEED THEM TO DO. THEY MAKE IT SO HARD FOR US. STILL SINGLE AND FROM THE LOOKS OF THINGS, I'LL REMAIN. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
This what I'm talking about this is one of the smoothest jazzy tunes that I've ever heard!!! The very best. I love this song and the video itself. 2 this very day I still love this jazzy song and the video as well. Miss Badu you are very talented as well.
It’s really insane just how much better music was in the nineties!!!! My lord I am so thankful to have lived my twenties during this era, Its allowed me to appreciate it even more now in my late forties!
As you get older you lose the drive and focus to continually search for new music that suits you. It's plainly as simple as that. There is great music being made today. Go look for it.
Erykah Badu's vouce alone gets me hooked on every song in her catalog! Strangely, I only had one of her CDs. I could order her Albums on Amazon, though.
I didn't realize just how dope this music video was until my adulthood. I watched it over and over as a child and even then felt it was nostalgic bu never quite understood. I miss music like this so much...
I was a Senior in High school in 97. This song was in heavy rotation on BET n radio. This takes me back to them days fr n Nxt Lifetime. Late 90s n early 2000s mane i miss them days fr.
Amazing and sung so beautiful. Erikah is among the best artist/singers of the whole world! I always listen to her songs. Respect and Love love love.... ❣❣😍😍💖💖💜💜💛💛💝💝🌻🌹🌹🌼🌼👌👌🤲🤲
This song was my life at the time it came out. I was married to a good guy deep in the streets!!!! I tried and tried to get him to leave that life alone. I had money, diamonds, and cars but was living in a constant state of worry!!!! But I loved him strong!!!! Thank God for growth. Although we eventually divorced he managed to turn his life around for the sake of our baby girl!!! Thank you Erykah for singing me through one of the roughest times in life!!!
I know you much happier now. I'm happy you stepped away from that situation.
Did that really happen or did you get that scenario from some cliché r&b song or rap video?
Well done for staying strong throughout all the challenges that you were presented. Good on you baby girl!
Much kudos and respect to you honey.
Keep doing what you are doing. Peace out to you Princess.❤❤
Amen Sis glad y'all both made it
through!!❤❤
@@Wynter59-yme hilarious your name is badbaby1987 im def the baby girl in that story all grown up and my parents stayed together and will be having a 35 wedding anniversary next june ! less things but a much more peaceful life from my early childhood memories
Two young people in love who were musicians that decided to star in a music video together. Everyone loved this music video featuring them. It was released before their son was born. The nineties was a wonderful time to be alive.
Man I really wish there was some type of documentary on just Erykah & Andre’s relationship at this time in ‘97.. Like I can feel their energy through the screen. This is like the most authentic aesthetic I’ve ever seen.
Yea that would be interesting and cool asf to see fasho 💯💓
They are acting. This is a music video. WTF?
@@mrlopez-pz7pu wtf did you come to the comments of this specific video to just troll? Seen you under several comments already bozo.
@@KadiJonesy the stupidity in the comment section is unreal.
My thoughts exactly!!!! Ok close 😃😁
What I absolutely adore about this is how the most mundane things are elevated and we are invited to glimpse at life's simple yet beautiful moments like her wiping her face, a random kiss here, Andre opening the windows, her cutting a grapefruit/orange, Andre accidentally leaving the tap open 3:22 and so on. There is no studio budget that can buy that level of genius.
YESSS
This woman understood the struggle. Never changed on her people. Made music for us. Then our people called her crazy cause they didn't understand "themselves", Yet she never turned her back to us. I love this melanin enriched goddess.
Yes 🥰 it's not often that are women show's the beauty of just being the black goddist They truly our. So how are you to find the King in yourself.with a white washed woman.We are King 👑 not queens.just keeping it 💯 Love you all, Sisters and Brothers.
You said everything!
ruclips.net/video/iRDLO8dbZQk/видео.html
That's why we love her♥️
What are you talking about pls ?
Erykah is such an underrated natural beauty in the mainstream. She makes it so fashionable to have full lips and afro texture hair. Am proud to have such features.
Amen🤟✌️
ABSOLUTELY!!!!
Fatima Davis yaasss my beautiful black queen
Righttt 💯👑💓
Erykak is beautiful naturally, I just love her soulful & organic sound ! #OriginalBlackWoman! #Queen! #P.E.A.C.E.!
I always saw Erykah as a mother figure trying to teach me about life, and love and self worth. She is pure poetry to me.
Take care of it will be sent to be there for the credentials for the running around with the chapter of the blooming in the morning
it’s a tradition that we must randomly return here. no matter what.
Not many notice this mv was shot in ONE take simply because the genius direction and movement of both the camera and artists. Just beautifully and intelligently executed not to mention a masterpiece of a song and message
It’s probably the greatest one-shot music video ever made
Erykah Badu looks like those traditional African Oil Painting figures come to life. So beautiful
Yes black people need life
I think it's because we're all coming to life rn..
Genuine..............
Agreed 💯👑
so true she looks like a African goddess
Andre’s body was so on point. He was and still looks good ❤️
I’m so excited for her and Jill Scott’s Instagram battle. Yassssss 2 queen Neo Soul legends.
He was vegan at the time
Legit one of the sexiest dudes I’ve ever seen
NO MATTER THE GENRES,THE 90'S HAD SOME GREAT MUSIC IN IT.
The best decade in music
@@JustaN00bi3 WELL I'M AN OLD DUDE NOW,SO I GOTTA SAY THE 70'S FIRST FOR ME,THEN THEN THE 80'S AND THEN THE 90'S IN THAT ORDER,BUT I RESPECT YOUR OPINION AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
@@oldskoolmusicforever0724 you're probably right since I was born in 80 lol. I'm just a bias fan of the 90s especially for hip hop.
Yup all genres all across the board
fuckin RIGHT
Erykah Badu has got to be the most soulful crooner to bust on the scene in the 90's. This song never gets old.
THANK YOU!!! I'm so sick of these complaining about my Erykah, they say they would like it if they wanted to sleep. Me, Erykah Badu gets my day started on a good note so take y' all asses to sleep then......
The way you worded that has me dying
I love watching Andre 3000 & Erykah Badu’s powerful connection and movements throughout this video 🧬 their presence and bond is unmatched
Erykah always a vibe .
hey jordannnn! lovely seeing you here with amazing music taste 😂💕
ALWAYS‼️
She the love of my life she just don’t know it yet😂
Alwayzzzzzzz!💚💚💚
This lady. ❤️❤️❤️
Still a hit in 2023!! Just went to her concert! She is unmatched. Her energy is eclectic!
Did she sing Tyrone?
The physical adoration, connection, and eccentric flat of André Benjamin and Erykah Badu is what KEEPS ME COMING BACK!! GROUNDED and IN TUNE
Hey r u beautiful as your comment
It's been awhile since I ran into you in the comments but it's a blessing to see you still just as divine as you were back then💜💙
*It has been an eclipse. Yet the pleasure is all mines.*
*Somehow your words are spiritually impactful in this season likewise as they were many many moons 🌟🌙 ago.*
That was really their place? I figured it was a set but I could count on those 2 to be realer than the rest of “the industry”
This is probably the most aesthetically pleasing music video ever.
My kind of love... that conscious, woke love. Need it
agreed!!
indeed ď
+DoomCity202 Lemonade was a popular drink and it STILL is bitch !!!!
You and me both my sister.
Melanated Queen yess😍😍
Her hair at the end is beautiful! That length always looks great... the way it jots out in various directions lol. Perfection.
I come here every once in a while to wonder what on Earth happened to my culture? I was in college when this album hit. I thought the black community was in a Renaissance, we were seeing ourselves like THIS. It was beautiful. Thank you.
i don't regret discovering Erykah Badu two days ago. Better late than never.
Wow.. I remember as a child my older sister put me on Erykah Badu with “On and On”.
@@Msangel06 shoutout to her fr
Where have u been
@@chanelporter1110 the genre isn't popular in Namibia unfortunately🙃
Welcome 2 the Badu vibe. Just chill & enjoy the ride.
These two together was just MAGICAL! OMG. 😍😍
When she first appears in the video, she is so stunning and in the end when she takes off her scarf and lets her hair out you just ask yourself why is this lady so gorgeous .
She's the gold standard in modern black women. Strong, highly intelligent, gifted, and supportive for her loved ones. As I can tell, she is the ideal woman for me. I feel that she and I would have been the perfect couple. Too bad we never met. Oh well, I will see her next lifetime.
That transition from Otherside to Rimshot is juuuuuuuuuuuuust *chef's kiss*
The instrumentals in this song is just EVERYTHING!!!
you better tell it.
you aint NEVER lie!
YESSSS🩵💙💚💛🧡🩷❤️
One of the most beautiful realest Afrocentric couple in hip hop/black culture, periodt. I thank God that my parents exposed me to the true meaning of love and music at that time. Good times ❤️✊🏾
Oh, God. This brings back a great moment. 1998 my boys and me were working in Johannesburg, South Africa. One night we were headed back on the road @ 3 AM from a party 5:20 with this song coming through the speakers. South African nights are magical.
Their home has so much NATURAL character, comfort and substance, ...PRICELESS!
My God. They are both so beautiful to look at. Heroin for the eyes.
Concordo.
Who still watching / listening to this classic? ✋🏽
😊
@@janicescott-pair97 😊
Hey bruh! Iz here ! Suuuuch good flayva. Dap! Ths woman is blessed and so are we…❤❤❤❤❤❤✝️✝️✝️✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽☮️☮️☮️
I'll always listen 2 Badoo
Oops the queen
One of the greatest music videos ever. Artistic and innovative beyond words. ✨ no one compared to Queen Badu
My mom used to play the live version of this album every Saturday while we were cleaning the house and now I do the same. Baduizm live is my favorite albums.
on GODDDD my mom and dad too , time to clean
Only the real can relate
Same here lol... like if it was black parents
swear lol
hearing that bridge an extra time sets this song off on the live version
I just came home after 9+ years in VA.'s prison system & any one who knows me can tell you this song carried me throughout my bid. Now that I'm finally free, I'm seeing the"Other Side Of The Game" fa' real... to all those still in "the life", take time to realize & treasure your freedom & all that comes with it- your family & your loved ones especially
Respect and welcome back bro.
Good for you Amar, praying for you to stay on the right track. Its not easy to do these days!
Thank you, 1dumpedviper. These sincere affirmations are greatly appreciated and needed these days.
Amar Acevedo-Roper Wise Words man, We proud of you!
Prosperity to you!
My people are beautiful in every way imaginable.
I agree, a bit of signs & wonders about us!
Our people are beautiful beyond measure! We come in all variations! I want all my SIStars to know, your Afro defies gravity. There is no other race that carries 9ether. Think of the image you are creating for your daughter, burning your hair on a daily basis, chemically processing and attaching hair that does not resemble your hair. I know many insecure girls and women. I was one of many. However, today 25/01/2020 I can say... l am a proud African Wombman, authentically ME! Self-Love is where I AM @. My town is Happiness. ~ I AM Beloved Positive-One
yes we are ....
@dootdootoo shahhh who hurt you LMAOODJHD
@dootdootoo shahhh if you didn't you would've kept it moving and kept your thoughts to yourself....it don't apply to YOU so let it fly...✌~N~💖
andre make any hairstyle look so cool man ugh
This lady defines what an artist is, someone who creates art.
Agreed wholeheartedly.....
probably the smoothest thing Ive ever heard
i agree
+NemRaps So cozy and comfortable...I see myself floating along the California coast at midnight in a 69 drop top corvette...It's cold out...but this beat keeps me warm.
+Wes Black 77c zffyf
+NemRaps Killer, this beat signifies something very serious and possibly dangerous
I miss the 90's
if u smoke and listen to this its one of the most calming vibes u will ever feel
You gotta try listening to the slowed reverb version of this......wow it's is a WHOLE other level, jesus.....look for the video with a cube candle, a plant and a black background....that one ❤️🤌🏾🤌🏾
🎉
This whole video is her gliding serenely around this confusing apartment layout, looking vaguely distraught while putting various pieces of fabric on. Absolutely iconic.
That sonic change in this video at 2:36 is awesome. Love how it switches to that full on airy live feel for a couple seconds. Not sure if it was intentional but I loved it.
In 1997 I was 9, I remember watching this with my cousins, loving the vibe. But now 34, I have a new appreciation, noticing things I never realized before. The sonogram from their baby 😍❤❤
Maaaaaaaaan, my mom used to play the shit out of this album when I was a kid. I remember her playing it all the time when we lived in Chicago during car rides. I've been a Badu fan every since then.
I raised my babies on #BADU too. 👍🥰
Sam I lived in LA my mom would blast
This is beautiful 😍
Definitely Maxwell inspired!!!
I literally went down a rabbit whole and came acrossed a clip from a tic tock that was posted on IG from a whole nother person but I'm so happy to be here!!!!!!! ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️
However it needed to happen. 🥰
4:12 makes my heart melt. Ahhh, my favorite throwback celebrity couple lol
nope ushernChilli
+Preme Supreme Yes, Usher and Chilli were so dope too!
What music video did they do
yup I remember being sad to hear that they split at that time...
there is no other song like this one. I get the same feeling as I did when I heard it as a kid. just peace man. chill out and peace
me too
same here!!!
yes
Word!
Huni Brown all neo soul does this for me! I can feel the late 90's for a few mins lol
I love when she reveals her dreads at the end. It really shows how aligned they are.
She kinda favor Lauryn Hill at da end
Marvin Paul right!! I caught the Lauren & 3000 look at the end. Just a quick question, who do u think influenced who 3000 influenced her or vice versa? Maybe their style was the same before knowing of each other, either way I think it’s dope. I just find things like that interesting, for instance, my gf was nvr into tennis shoes but after being w/ me for so long she kinda goes for the same look as me. She’s from outside of the city too so now the slang we use, she has picked up on from hearing me so much. To me, she’s a great budgeter & that’s the main thing I follow😂
Long story, less long i find it interesting how we imitate those we are around. Especially those we love & admire. An interesting tid bid to my question, I heard she had a few artist “whipped” & I wanna figure out the lore to her attraction. Besides looking like today’s cleopatra
Locks*
O
@@dorenjackson1166 in one of the outkast songs, Andre says he saw a singer on stage with dreads similar to his. So lol they just so happened to meet each other with this hair style
Always loved her from the start! Shes amazing live! She's real in a world of artificial!
Andre is one beautiful man. 😍😍
True he has been my fav luv his style. They look so cute now this video and were a cute couple back then.
Mch Luv Andre 3000/ EB
He absolutely is
Ms Badu is just more beautiful. I love her naturalness and maturity. Love this woman.
YESSSSSS HE IS!!!!!!!!!!! LAWD!!!!!! SEXXAYYYY CHOC!!!!!!!
Yes,yes,yes,yes, and YES!
This still hit like it's new.. True music never dies
BRING THE 90's MUSIC BACK ASAP!!!!
Fr
I don’t know if anyone else can hear or feel this, but Badu was playing with frequencies in this track. I kept feeling deep relaxation in my neck and shoulders throughout.
Facts facts 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌🌟
Most definitely
Witchcraft, her music puts people under a spell. Andre 3000, her baby daddy, and the guy in the video once said "I met a gypsy", he was talking about her.
This is true...I hear it...instant relaxation👍
So that’s where that release is from?
In 2024 still one of my favorite artist ❤!! And it’s my birthday, I turned 31 and still feel very young like the first time I heard this song !!
I love Erykah Badu, she is such a talented & thoughtful writer.
This song is like someone pointed a camera at a couple & took a photograph that is a portrait of the single most important moment in their lives & relationship. Even a month after Erykah Badu made this photograph, the couple would already be changed. Questions would begin to be answered, decisions made, uncertainties resolved for better or worse. 5 years later one of them might find this photograph again--maybe they're together, maybe they're apart, but they will never again look the way they looked in this photograph by Erykah Badu.
What a divine human being she is and forever will be. Truly a humble and inspirational individual who I will forever cherish. 🙏
Us early 90's babies we're raised off of her music, my moms use to have this album on repeat cleaning the house & cooking to this nostalgia!
Facts
🤚❤️🥰
shit late 90s babies too😂
Experienced Erykah at Radio City Music Hall in '98 .. BEST Concert EVER!! She had the Whole Audience in the Palm of her HANDS!!! Brilliant and will NEVER Forget it!! xoxoxoxoxoo
One of the best videos EVER made depicting real love, and a peaceful, playful, nurturing home between a black man and woman. Friendship, synergy and commitment all in one!!! CLASSIC!!!!! I still just LOVE IT!!!!!!!💯😊😊😊
I was singing this song to my husband 2 years ago on his birthday. Now he is in jail. Still listening to it and waiting him with three kids on my own
This song brings back so many great memories! Black men!! Woo!!! Erykah is beautiful too! Her skin is perfect!
Quarantine with Erykah Badu ANYONE?? 🎧
Boom, CLAP, Boom Clap Boom Clap....✌💃💪✊🙋
Always and forever
I'm 29 caught up in the streets, got a BEAUTIFUL woman & children who love me dearly and I swear this song just brought tears to my eyes because I know the risks and so want to get out of the game. The hustle gives us all a life we never had though so it's hard to leave but I know it's the right thing to do 😔 hopefully I do before it's too late 🙏🏾💫✨
14 years and still one of the greatest warnings to Hustlers..Thank you for creating this beautiful song it changed my life.
Erykah, this track is quite possibly genius level. Just amazing
Verdade
This that layed up with the bae music
yesssiiirrr!
W
yup
Donovan Beavers whatever that means
it means don't worry about it Jen😄
I love Erykah!! this song is like 20 years old and it still hits...will always be a fan... she's always been ahead of her time!.:-)
Why? ?
Shay Ashford THIS SISTER IS DEEP. HER AWARENESS IS SO SHARP AND ON POINT.
LITERALLY WHY SHE IS WIDELY CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST R&B SINGERS OF ALL TIME
this is so pure and damn andre 3000 was so fine
And even finer years latter chile 😅😅 the beauty of being blackiddy black🥰
he always will be
Shii still is 💯👑💓
Shiddddd still is even with his grey hair........he could get it even now.
Yes lordt!
Literally my favorite Erykah Badu song of all-time. I love how she conveys her relationship with Andre 3000 in this video. And to see her pregnant with their son, Seven. This was Literally the best pregnancy announcement
The condo in this video is on point!
i know i want a loft/condo just like it.
4:24 hits, "tell me you want the truth; that you want this" dearest ethereal
I think this is one of my favorite videos. Just perfect. Loved the way the music sounded when it transitioned to sounding as if the sound was just playing in their apartment.
She tore the house down in Philly. She tested her microphone levels and sung it with the band. This lady is better than 90% of the artists out and I've heard and see a lot.
Time of song of snow allegro moderato for the credentials are doing well and blossoming full out of the house notes stocks comparison option for class tomorrow morning at says as well so w2í bank account to know further information from the form of books for the running around with the chapter of the day off for class tomorrow morning
"Work ain't honest but it pays the rent!" Damn Funky Dineva and her quotes!!!
hendrixx right lmaaaaaaao
hendrixx “Moving on up theme song “ #TheJeffersons 🎶🎵🎵
Love this joint
23 years later, and that would stillll be a cool house to come home to
🎉
Erykah badu is still one of the woman that stood up for the culture & sing it so we can understand what life like in music
I love the camera work in this video
Erykah Badu ........ just a true Soul Princess ........
This is spriritual.
Im 14 but i love that old hiphop,R&b,jazz and soul
Im growing freeform dreads now just like André 🌲
tru
How your freeform journey turning out for ya ?
Most cannot stick to it-- pun intended
Take yo yung ass to bed
Pressure on me but the seed is grown, I can't make it on my own... She couldn't have said it better. Genius
WHO STILL BUMPIN THIS 2019...LIKE
Nijah Mia Willis This will be the jam until eternity
Getting me through this heart break 🥵
Yes sir lol
Me!
Nijah Mia Willis I AM!!!
Nothing like oldies especially with Erykah Badu still moving strong always❤❤😂😊
Favorite song. Favorite video. Favorite artsy couple. True representation of black love and the child🖤🤎
I really don't know how I missed this back in the day, but am so glad I found it, today. Such smooth lyrics and beat, both flow into each other so seamlessly. Nice!
this gave me goosebumps (and sometimes brought tears) more than 20 years ago .. still does today. timeless.
See how music was futuristic... everything she spoke was truth the past present and so the future... look at us now ... who cannot relate to her observations? We might have not lived such lives but look around you our people are living this song ...
I love how all of her videos start with "A story by Erykah Badu", it's almost as if She let's us into her mind for the duration of the video, cause this is what she's imagining with this song. 👌🏻
Black power is totally in her musical message ...
They had that good black love.. We need that back again
_itsMyesha__ YES WE DO. BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THE BROTHERS TODAY IS NOT ON THAT PAGE WITH US. HOW CAN WE MAKE THEM KNOW THAT GOD CREATED US TO MATE UP. THEIR HEAD IS SOMEPLACE ELSE. THEY CANT RELATE TO WHAT WE NEED THEM TO DO. THEY MAKE IT SO HARD FOR US. STILL SINGLE AND FROM THE LOOKS OF THINGS, I'LL REMAIN. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
I know now it's all about fame/clout and having a bunch of baby mommas
@@08baby25 No fathers to teach them. The mothers simply coddle them and they look up to rappers/athletes.
This is one of my favorite Erykah songs. My God the soul in the intro ad-libs alone are immaculate. 🔥🔥🔥
This what I'm talking about this is one of the smoothest jazzy tunes that I've ever heard!!! The very best. I love this song and the video itself. 2 this very day I still love this jazzy song and the video as well. Miss Badu you are very talented as well.
Yes its so smooth !!!!
I've loved this song for years, but never seen the video til just now. So glad I have!
same here
"but never SEEN the video til just now"......you people are so embarrassing to your own race.
bye troll.
It’s really insane just how much better music was in the nineties!!!! My lord I am so thankful to have lived my twenties during this era, Its allowed me to appreciate it even more now in my late forties!
i'm genuinely jealous. i'm currently entering my 20s but I can't help but feel a soul-calling towards the music before my time;
For real. Thank the heavens for this in my formative years.
Agree
Foreal, 90’s heading into the 2000’s was great
As you get older you lose the drive and focus to continually search for new music that suits you. It's plainly as simple as that. There is great music being made today. Go look for it.
Erykah Badu's vouce alone gets me hooked on every song in her catalog! Strangely, I only had one of her CDs. I could order her Albums on Amazon, though.
Happy 50th Erica Abi Wright 02/26/71 Dallas, Texas..
The Queen of Neo soul. Such a silky smooth voice.
I didn't realize just how dope this music video was until my adulthood. I watched it over and over as a child and even then felt it was nostalgic bu never quite understood. I miss music like this so much...
I was a Senior in High school in 97. This song was in heavy rotation on BET n radio. This takes me back to them days fr n Nxt Lifetime. Late 90s n early 2000s mane i miss them days fr.
Amazing and sung so beautiful. Erikah is among the best artist/singers of the whole world! I always listen to her songs. Respect and Love love love.... ❣❣😍😍💖💖💜💜💛💛💝💝🌻🌹🌹🌼🌼👌👌🤲🤲
Thats Andre 3000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was too young to appreciate this. But now.... but now i do.
Me too. Just heard her last night and now I'm hooked.