“Who plans that?” remarked the 51-year-old of her diverse family.
Erykah Badu has spoken up about having children with three different men and avoiding being labelled by negative stereotypes.
The 51-year-old went by The Breakfast Club for an interview, during which she acknowledged that she had no intention of having children by numerous men, but she hasn’t let it stop her from enjoying a full life.
“I think if you’re transparent, people shouldn’t do that,” Badu says of following her lead. “I didn’t know anything… no one would expect to have three baby daddies, who plans that? But, when those things start to happen, you don’t stop living.”
The author of “Hello” also points out that occasionally relationships fail owing to incompatibility between partners, resulting in lovers going on to create other partnerships. “Not everybody knows how to be mate,” she laments, but says it’s not due to a lack of effort. “We try, you know but we’re not taught that. That’s something we don’t know how to do. It’s a whole culture built around it, but we don’t even know how to do it.”
The Baduizm author also mentions how emotions can sometimes override one’s judgement in the short term, leading in long-term consequences, such as parenting. “Let’s be transparent, for my sisters out there,” Badu told the show’s cohosts. “We fall in love, you know, love is a chemical thing. We fall in love. Really I think God make us fall in love just long enough to get pregnant so that we can go ahead and procreate.” Badu explains.
The singer also discussed marriage, claiming that while it has been marketed as a cultural construct, it is not a necessary for happiness and is not an experience she seeks. Becoming a bride isn’t for everyone, according to the Texas native. “It doesn’t fit me.”
Badu is the mother of three children by three different men, all of whom are musicians. Seven, her eldest kid, was fathered by Andre 3000, whom she dated in the mid-late 1990s. Puma Curry, her middle kid, was born in 2004 and is the daughter of rap superstar The D.O.C. Mars Merkaba Thedford, her youngest kid, the daughter of rapper Jay Electronica, was born in 2009.
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