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Badu’s Voodoo: Erykah Badu & The Effect She Has On Rappers (Kendrick Too)

Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive. In this fascinating and hilarious Interview Magazine back-and-forth between Kendrick Lamar and Erykah Badu , the pair discusses, among other things, Lamar’s top ten favorite rappers, his rider what he asks for at a show , and what being a woman means to each of them.

There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante.

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And he does this by engaging Rihanna in a way no other rapper has. Kendrick Lamar and Drake represent two poles of what superstardom looks like — the old-school warrior-poet pitted against the millennial prince of emojis. Kendrick further flips the distinction between his erstwhile rival with a new tactic: the agency he shares on the standout song Loyalty with the fully operational battle station code named Bad Girl Ri-Ri. Bottom line up front, this album is complex, enjoyable, and has the gravity of a collapsing star.

Loyalty shines because Kendrick truly shares the stage with his costar, rather than relegating her to sing-the-hook status. Rihanna is embedded into the fabric of the song, singing with Kendrick during the chorus, allowing him to finish her thoughts, and finally throwing him the alley-oop on the most poignantly spiritual line of the entire album:. Women have a complicated history within hip-hop music, to say nothing of the overall tone of misogyny that permeates it.

Being a woman in rap music has long been felt like what being black in America often feels like: you have to be twice as good to get half the credit, and there could be only one at a time. The relationship between Drake and Rihanna showcases this idea of sonic arm candy in an unfortunately effective way, via—among others—the songs Fireworks , Take Care , and Too Good.