Erykah Badu’s “Hotline Bling But You Caint Use My Phone Mix” cover of Drake’s “Hotling Bling” will appear on the singer’s forthcoming mixtape, according to Noisey.
But You Caint Use My Phone will be released next week and is named after a lyric from the singer’s 1997 single “Tyrone.”
Badu says that even though she hasn’t released an album in several years that’s she’s been working on new material.
“I just kinda live and experience,” she says during the Noisey interview. “I’m writing all the time, but recently I got the bug back. When it comes, it comes, and I can’t force it, but recently I got it back with ‘Hotline Bling’ and all the other things I’ve been experimenting with.”
The Texas artist is also premiering “Live Nudity,” her first-ever one-woman improv show, at Dallas’s Black Academy of Arts and Letters this week. She says that despite a heavy touring schedule during the last 18 years, she still isn’t completely comfortable on stage.
“The stage is my main place, but being by myself there… I don’t know why that stresses me out, but it does,” she says. “I’m sure that nervous energy will turn into something really honest that I’ll end up sharing. But I don’t know what’ll happen, so we’ll see.”
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Do you know how to spell CAN’T? wtf is cain’t
Are you serious right now fam? They are spelling it phonetically. Playing off how she pronounces the word. She doesn’t pronounce is can’t as in rhymes with ant, she pronounces it cain’t as in it rhymes with paint (I do too). That’s a normal thing. Especially with songs and movie titles.
Why are yall trying to reason with a troll! Stop trying to knock down what he keeps setting up. Ignoring trolls s the worst thing you can do.
Thats not NORMAL. Speak fucking english right and spell it or go back to africa and invent your own language. And you wonder why people look at blacks rhe way they do. Yall dont want to integrate, you want ur own ebony language or whatever. Fuck off with that BS to africa!
It’s spelled the way southerners say it. I’m sure she knows how to spell it correctly though.
you are ignorant…i was going to write a detailed response to tell you why but I am sure with the years of helplessness and inbreeding your kind has endured, that it wouldn’t even be understood
You seriously woke up this morning to hate?? Dude go grab a bowl cereal read the back of the box till you feel good about yourself. Do yo (THANG Ms. BADULICIOUS)
Calm your ass down, what are you doing on this page anyway? Where here to admire art and creativity. Take your negativity and bigotry OUT OF HERE.
Curious to see how it turns out. Should be dope
betta be dope and original music.