Erykah Badu Accepts the Icon Award | Billboard Women In Music 2025

Erykah Badu accepts the Group of the Year award at Billboard Women In Music 2025.

Erykah Badu:
Thank you so much. Hey. Thank you so much. Peace and love, how y’all feel. Sisters, how y’all feel? This night is for us. It’s a night to celebrate the womb of the world, the womb of life, the womb-iverse of all things. The smartest creature on planet Earth. The wisest, the most invincible, sexiest, purest, finest. The woman. Thank you so much. I want to thank God for giving me the opportunity to be born a woman. I’m coming. I want to thank my mother and all the mothers. Miss Tina, you said it well. All the mothers. I see Doechii’s mama out there, all the mothers. Thank you so much for giving us so much inspiration and examples of what it means to be resilient, what it means to take charge, what it means to be courageous, what it means to be authentically ourselves. And that’s all we gonna be. That’s all I want to be. I don’t really have a lot of things to say, but I want to end with this story. My daughter is out here. Her name is Puma. She’s over there. My sister Joy is out there. This is for both of y’all. But here’s my story. I was bathing my youngest daughter, Mars, and Mars was about four. And I was bathing her. And I was washing her up. You know, you teach them while you’re washing them up. And I said, “and this is the vagina.” And she said, “oh, vagina.” Yeah. I said, “yes, it’s the vagina. It’s the most important thing on the planet.” And Mars said, “Really?” Then she looked at me with those big brown eyes and she said, “where is the planet’s vagina?”

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