Erykah Badu Makes 360 Singing in Times Square
It has been a while since Erykah Badu released a new album, so in an effort to make a couple of dollars the RB singer hit the streets of New York to panhandle. In a iPhone video released Wednesday by Badu, who has become a bit of a social media maven with her quirky vines and tweets, the soulful artist stands in the middle of Time Square, holding out a hat and singing to passersby. Throughout the video, Badu goes largely unnoticed, though she's able to collect a couple of dollars 3.60 to be exact as a result of her efforts. Badu even quips that with "some initiative, you can make money." To finish things off, the ever-political songstress reminds viewers that, "in reality, life is a lot harder than this."