I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
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As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
quote by Erykah Badu
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Music and the music business are two different things.
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I Used To Love Him
(lauryn hill feat. mary j. blige)
Lauryn:
As I look at what Ive done
The type of polite that Ive lived
How many things I pray the father will forgive
One situation involved a young man
He was the ocean and I was the sand
He stole my heart like a thief in the night
Dulled my senses blurred my sight
Chorus:
I used to love him but now I dont
I used to love him but now I dont
Mary:
I chose a road of passion and pain
Sacrificed too much and waited in vain
Gave up my power ceased being queen
Addicted to love like the drugs of a fiend
Lauryn & mary:
Torn and confused wasted and used
Reached the crossroad which path would I choose
Stuck and frustrated I waited, debated
For something to happen that just wasnt fated
Though what I wanted was something I needed
When momma said no I just should have heeded
Misled I bled till the poison was gone
And out of the darkness arrived the sweet dawn
Chorus:
I used to love him but now I dont
I used to love him but now I dont
Lauryn & mary:
Father you saved me and showed me that life
Was much more than being some foolish mans wife
Showed me that love was respect and devotion
Greater than planets deeper than oceans
My soul was weary but now its replenished
Content because that part of my life is finished
I see him sometimes and the look in his eye
Is one of a man whose lost treasures untold
But my heart is gold I took back my soul
And totally let my creator control
The life which was his to begin with
I used to love him but now I dont
song performed by by Mary J Blige
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I love putting the music together. It's like art.
quote by Erykah Badu
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I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
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I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.
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Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
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Love At First Sight
(feat. Method Man)
[Mary J. Blige]
Lookin' at you from a distance
Gettin' all of my attention
Could this be love at first sight, baby
You walked away and I missed you
Visions of wanting to kiss you
How could this be if I don't really know you?
Ohh baby, baby
[Chorus: Mary J. Blige]
Could it be love at first sight?
And I never knew that I, could fall in love on the very first night
Could this be love?
[Mary J. Blige]
You had on the latest fashion
It was a bigger distraction
It drew me closer and closer to you, yeah, baby
I never saw anything like this
But you I just could not resist
I swallowed my pride and stepped through your side
Or could it be - be
[Chorus]
[Hook: Mary J. Blige]
I wanna know if you could call me up (could you call me up sometime? please)
And maybe somebody we just might hook up, could this love at first sight?
[Method Man]
Once again, it's that other M&M now
How many women feelin' him?
Somebody call the coroner, quick, Mary is killin 'em
Tell 'em what's the 411 and who came runnin'
When Clef dialed 911 from shots comin'
This somethin' for the radio, guest starring M.C.
Johnny Blazin' the hip hop and R&B
What, ya'll thought ya wasn't gon' see me
You can't spell Mary J. Blige without a J.B.
Well back to the matter, and it's sex on the platter
She only wanna be happy and I ain't mad at her
You go momma, nowadays, I'm more calmer
And if you take a look at my life, no more drama
Now you know, you searchin' for a Wu-Tang pro
You find me, just bout everywhere the poontang go
Now you know, feel me like your favorite love song
Cuz my computer love is the thetruth.com
[Chorus 2X]
song performed by by Mary J Blige
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Your Precious Love
Artist: badu, erykah and d'angelo
[erykah]
Umm say baby won't you play it over for me
So i can get used to it
Yeah that's the part
[d'angelo]
That's it
[erykah]
Yeah that right there
I love that
[d'angelo]
Ah this is what's coming up right here
[erykah](d'angelo)
Ooh yeah yes
(ah yeah)
[d'angelo]
Erykah, every day there's something new
Honey, to keep me lovin' you
And with every passing minute
Ah baby, so much joy wrapped up in it
1 - [both]
Oh, heaven must have sent you from above
Oh, heaven must have sent your precious love
[erykah]
And i, i've got a song to sing
Telling' the world about the joy you bring, ooh
And you gave me, you gave me a reason for livin'
And ooh, you taught me, you taught me the meaning of giving
Repeat 1
[d'angelo]
Oh, to find a love like ours is rare these days
Cause you've shown me happiness means in so many ways
[erykah]
I look in the mirror, and i'm glad to see
Laughter in the eyes where tears used to be
[d'angelo]
What you've given me i could never return, yeah
'cause there's so much, girl, i have yet to learn
[erykah]
And i just wanna i just wanna show my appreciation
Cause when i found you, i found a new inspiration
Repeat 1 till end
song performed by by Erykah Badu
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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.
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I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
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And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
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The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
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I grew up listening to old soul.
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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