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...result, Tommy moves on to his final and unlikeliest mentor: a prostitute incarcerated in the Greenwich Village Women’s House of Detention, the House of D from which this film draws its name. Played by Erika Badu, Lady—she never gives Tommy her real name—intersperses her counsel with frequent requests that Tommy buy her a dimebag in Washington Square Park. Nonetheless, she does give serious thought to Tommy’s problems and she offers him valuable life lessons...
...discuss the circumstances of her parents' relationship, but she emphasizes that Shankar had a very small role in her upbringing; at one point, Jones and Shankar went 10 years without contact.) She discovered singing while attending the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Erykah Badu and trumpeter Roy Hargrove are also alums) and pursued jazz piano at the University of North Texas. After her sophomore year, she took a summer sublet in New York City, where she waited on tables in the mornings and spent her evenings singing jazz standards in Greenwich Village dives...
...live disc as a whole, it seems at times to run out of places to go once it has hit that emotional and musical high. Scott has a highly impressive voice and vocal range, but there is little demonstration of the more subtle, sexy textures so beloved of Erykah Badu and used to great effect on Scott’s debut album. The exception is the playful “Do You Remember,” which allows Scott to give free reign to her wit as she cuts an ex-lover down to size: “You acted...
...Taliban when they left a hang-up on his machine and he *69ed them was easily the high point of the first episode. Tracy Morgan said that he now favored racial profiling, particularly for dudes with their heads all wrapped up that aren’t Erykah Badu. Fey and Fallon’s predecessor Colin Quinn returned to the “Update” set and contributed a lengthy and generally unfunny monologue about the attacks that unfortunately reminded viewers why he left...
...enforcement in general are bringing together black and white artists as few issues have since apartheid. The New York City police shooting of African immigrant Amadou Diallo created a mini-genre of tribute songs--Springsteen's heartfelt if monotonous American Skin, Wyclef Jean's lilting Diallo and Erykah Badu's oblique A.D. 2000. The justice system may be to the rebel music of the 21st century as the military...