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  1. The New YorkerCondé Nast4/18/1635 min
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    • DellwoodBarker2 years ago

      A great artist profile from 2016.

      The microphone was set up a few feet from the computer—Badu avoids vocal booths, because she finds the isolation inhibiting. She laid down her verse in two takes and then moved on to the chorus, nimbly matching D.R.A.M.’s delivery. “We on the clock / All the time / All the time / We on the clock,” she murmured. “Even when we make no moves / Father Time don’t never stop.”

      Love this:

      Years ago, during a show at the Apollo Theatre, she tarried so long at a theremin that the crowd grew puzzled, then amused, then annoyed, and then finally resigned—willing to wait for as long as it took for Badu to do whatever she was doing.