Stereogum — Every summer, the Roots host their Roots Picnic festival in their Philadelphia hometown. This time around, as Billboard reports, the festival’s eighth incarnation will go down 5/30 at Philly’s Festival Pier. The Roots will play twice — once on ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Amazon's upcoming drama series "Hand of God" is currently shooting around Los Angeles and now it's revealing some of the performers who will guest star, including recording stars Erykah Badu and former 'N Sync member Lance Bass. more info

Soul Sides — Lion Babe’s “Treat Me Like Fire” originally dropped in 2013 but they finally came out with their debut EP and redid the video for this single (the original is here). Love the entire vibe of the song; it’s like the best song Erykah Badu neve... more info

Stereogum — A trailer has emerged for Black Dynamite’s timely police brutality musical “The Wizard Of Watts,” which features the voices Tyler, The Creator, Erykah Badu, and Chance The Rapper (who previously voiced Bob Marley on the show). It turns out Tyle... more info

Stereogum — The 2009 movie Black Dynamite was a pretty great blaxploitation parody/homage, and since then, it’s become the basis for an Adult Swim cartoon that, I’m told, is also pretty great. Next month, the show will air a special hour-long musical episode... more info

Perez Hilton — We are feeling this!!!!!!!!! Telana is giving us an American FKA twigs vibe meets some old school Erykah Badu! Neo soul with some more interesting production and compelling visuals! Super cool! And mysterious! Gemini is the only song she's released s... more info

Perez Hilton — Erykah Badu is a creative one indeed! The Grammy Award winner decided to take to the streets for a little experiment to prove hard work (sort of) pays off. Erykah put on a little disguise, found a nice busy spot in New York's Times Square, and belted... more info

Time — Just enough for a hot dog! more info

Stereogum — As a “street hustle experiment,” Erykah Badu recently spent an evening posted up on a corner in Times Square, singing for passersby in the hope that they would dump some change into her enormous hat. She wore enough chunky jewelry that I can’t ... more info

Stereogum — When the visionary Los Angeles beat-mangler Flying Lotus got Thom Yorke and Erykah Badu to show up on his album Until The Quiet Comes a couple of years ago, that felt like a big deal indeed, even if their voices fully blurred into his expansive jazz-... more info