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1. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
Her least favorite body part is her colon.
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2. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
Badu’s last meal would be toast with margarine.
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3. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
She owns 726 head wraps.
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4. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
In 2014, Badu had her DNA tested and her lineage was traced to the West African country of Cameroon.
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5. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
Her hit ‘Tyrone’ was a freestyle on stage in DC. Someone recorded it and sent to a radio station.
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6. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
She attended Grambling University where she majored in theatre and minored in Quantum Physics.
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7. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
She opened for Notorious B.I.G in 1994, performing “On and On” for the first time. She also opened up for rap acts like A Tribe Called Quest, Mobb Deep and the Wu-Tang Clan.
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8. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
She starred opposite Charlize Theron in 1999’s The Cider House Rules.
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9. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
Badu’s first stage name was ‘MC Apples.’
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10. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
In 2005, she launched her own label Control FreaQ with the goal of freeing “the slaves and the slave masters”.
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11. Black Music Month: How Well Do You Know Erykah Badu?
Her celebrity crush is Billy Dee Williams.
Black Music Month: Think You Know Erykah Badu? Let’s Find Out! was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc
