{"id":197908,"date":"2025-10-24T18:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/does-erykah-badu-think-outkasts-ms-jackson-is-about-her-her-mother-sure-does-she-got-the-bumper-sticker-3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T18:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:13:36","slug":"does-erykah-badu-think-outkasts-ms-jackson-is-about-her-her-mother-sure-does-she-got-the-bumper-sticker-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/does-erykah-badu-think-outkasts-ms-jackson-is-about-her-her-mother-sure-does-she-got-the-bumper-sticker-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Erykah Badu Think Outkast\u2019s \u2018Ms. Jackson\u2019 Is About Her? Her Mother Sure Does: \u2018She Got the Bumper\u00a0Sticker\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/outkast\/\">Outkast\u2019s <\/a>\u201cMs. Jackson\u201d celebrates its 25th anniversary on Friday (Oct. 24), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/erykah-badu\">Erykah Badu<\/a> revealed her doubts about being the muse behind the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\"> Billboard Hot 100<\/a> No. 1 hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBadu joined <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BmtuerizmBw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Popcast<\/a><\/em> for an interview earlier this week, where she discussed being the subject of hip-hop songs. While the neo-soul icon doesn\u2019t think \u201cMs. Jackson\u201d is about herself, her mother, Kolleen Gipson, certainly is taking credit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think \u2018Ms. Jackson\u2019 was actually about me. I don\u2019t think so, but people say it,\u201d she said. \u201c[My mom] thinks it was about her. She got the bumper sticker and the airbrush t-shirt. I think it says, \u2018Sorry, Ms. Jackson.&rsquo;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFor years, there\u2019s been fan speculation and theories that \u201cMs. Jackson\u201d was an apology letter from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/andre-3000\">Andr\u00e9 3000<\/a> to Erykah Badu\u2019s family following their split. The former couple dated from 1995 to 1999 and welcomed a son in 1997, Seven Sirius Benjamin.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Outkast - Ms. Jackson (Official HD Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MYxAiK6VnXw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cMs Jackson\u201d arrived about a year after the Three Stacks-Badu break-up, fueling rumors connecting the track\u2019s content to their relationship. It was the second single on Outkast\u2019s <em>Stankonia<\/em> album, which was released a week later on Halloween in 2000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cMs. Jackson\u201d topped the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\/\">Billboard Hot 100 <\/a>and won a Grammy Award for best rap performance by a duo or a group. The anthem has stood the test of time over the course of a quarter-century and feels embedded in the DNA of pop music with an earworm of a chorus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the interview below. Talk about \u201cMs. Jackson\u201d takes place just shy of the 30-minute mark. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Erykah Badu on D\u2019Angelo, Radical Empathy, Marilyn Manson, Love &amp; Hip-Hop\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmtuerizmBw?start=1786&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/erykah-badu-mom-outkast-ms-jackson-1236097783\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Outkast\u2019s \u201cMs. Jackson\u201d celebrates its 25th anniversary on Friday (Oct. 24), Erykah Badu revealed her doubts about being the muse behind the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit. Badu joined Popcast for an interview earlier this week, where she discussed being the subject of hip-hop songs. While the neo-soul icon doesn\u2019t think \u201cMs. Jackson\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}