Story By Erykah Badu

Here I am Miss Badu

Not Big Sean, but “I Don’t **** With You”

It’s cause I’m from D, the other D

But Detroit had a special place in my heart

Creative, Deep, Rooted, Organic, Cosmic

Fantastic, Futuristic, Ancient, Musical

When I think of Detroit I think of these things

There’s something in that dirty water that just gives it its flavour

There is an invisible intelligence

That runs through the streets

Like an underground rooting system

Millions and billions of memories of atoms of all of the beautiful music

That has been created there

And I have seen it evolve into, thangs only felt in the heart

I know This to he true

Thank You, Berry Gordy for that little house

Thank You Stevie Wonder for always calling me

And reminding me that it is there

That thang

I always long to connect with it when I lose my way musically

Thank You J Dilla, for your peculiar- peculiar intelligence

Yeah, Detroit just has a magic and I know it to be true

Not Big Sean, but “I Don’t **** With You”

Live from Badu-bootron

To be a phenomenon

Detroit: where the nubians grow