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Erykah Badu Explains Nudity In New Music Video For 'Window Seat'
By Allen Starbury ♦ Published 03/29/2010

Erykah Badu in 'Window Seat' music videoErykah Badu caused a stir over the weekend, when she leaked the official music video for her track, "Window Seat". For those who haven't watched it, the singer is fully nude by the end of the clip.

In the new vid, the singer sheds her clothing while walking through downtown Dallas. At the end, when she is totally nude, Badu is shot in the head, falling near the same grassy knoll near where President Kennedy was shot in 1963. Instead of blood, animated words that spell out "groupthink" leak from her head on the sidewalk.

At the beginning, it says the vid is inspired Matt and Kim's "Lesson Learned" video, in which the duo strip in the middle of Times Square.

"They who play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they don't understand," she speaks, off camera. "They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another. They feel more comfortable in groups, less guilt to swallow. They are us. This is what we have become, afraid to respect the individual."

(Watch the "Window Seat" music video right here )

During the weekend, Badu took to her Twitter account (@FatBellyBella) to explain the Coodie-directed music video, which she says her team filmed in one shot.

"We only had 1 shot to get it right," Badu wrote. "We didn't plan the shot. Coodie and I just went raw dog. Too busy lookin for cops and being petrified."

She later explains that the entire clip of her walking and stripping down took a couple of minutes to film, because they captured it and ran.

"The people caught in the shot were trying hard to ignore me," Badu tweeted. "Lol, [except] one guy grabbing [my] clothes. ... He disappeared. Didn't have time to look for him or clothes. We ran. It was the peeps off camera yelling."

According to Badu, the screaming folks off camera were distracting, but she kept it together: "I held my head up and kept moving. ... There were children there. I prayed they wouldn't b traumatized."

The vid is quite risque, and as a mother, she ran it by everyone in her family -- baby's daddies, her kids, mother, and others -- before filming.

"I told Puma (5) my plans. She looked at me with a blank face and replied 'ok mama. Can I have another pudding?' " Badu wrote. "I asked @jayelectronica if I should go [through] with it. He said, 'IF YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT DO IT -- YOU GOT 1 SHOT TO BE ERYKAH.' "

The song is off Badu's new album, New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh, set to drop this week.

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  • Pank Lucas

    Best video of the 2000's so far. I can see why Common and Andre 3 stacks was strung out. She got a body! I know I was surprised.

  • mercedes1010

    1st d.angelo, how does it feel. Then maxwell in the bathtub. Now ericka walkin down the street ass naked. Whats next beyonce pulls her tittys out!

  • GG

    When the album drops, I'm buying.. enough said...

  • calikid

    she got ass like a muthafucc fucc ill smash

  • T-Dizzle

    Damm she stacked like that...damm!!She has a gang of ass...giving Trina a run for the "Baddest Ass in the Game"!!

  • jah112

    she has a fat pamper.....

  • Ritual

    very dope video.

  • DreTruth

    a fat pamper - yeah - people are hating on her already but I likey too. Always have that why she got three different baby daddies all bad -may I add. Yummy.

  • SouthernFinest22

    keep yo heart 3stacks cuz that azz is ridiculous

  • vikings

    For the last decade Ms.Badu`s body was Hollywoods best kept secret,because of her attire,but not anymore!!!!!

  • http://iamsoze.blogspot.com/ VENGEANCE IS MINE!!!!

    HMMMM, IT'Z A FINE LINE BETWEEN ART & MEDIA WHORING....

    BUT SHE MAKIN A STATEMENT TOOK IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL....

    SHE EVOLVED....

    AND SHINED IN HER OWN REALM WITH STYLE & GRACE....

    OHHHH, FnCK IT.....

    THEN AGAIN IS CUZ OF THAT FINE BEAUTIFUL BLACK AZZ THAT I'LL WATCH THAT VIDEO AGAIN.....

  • marcus

    Man badu got a big booty. Man I would like to squeeze it

  • http://kingsonset.blogspot.com Infidel

    Dayam!! Tha's an ass-and-a-half!!

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