It’s really, really, really, really awesome. So I think that it’s a good time to start exposing my art to the air. No one knows that I do all of my own artwork. No one knows that I direct all my videos and write all of the treatments. This place that I had not been welcomed before.’ I’m known for the singing, and stuff like that. I thought that, ‘Hey, this is a great opportunity to expose myself to this naked place. And this time around they made me an associate producer, so I had an opportunity to write my material, which I think is really cool - to, you know, see my things crystalize - my words and my sense of humor, which is pretty unique and self-serving. I've been enjoying the experience a lot.In an interview with the Associated Press backstage at “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” 44-year-old Badu talks about the hosting gig, new music and more.ĪP: You hosted the Soul Train Music Awards in 1998. We just work together kind of come up with stuff and chill out. They're comics who have a lot of experience in their field. I brought on a great team of writers, amongst them are Carl Jones ( Black Dynamite and Boondocks), Cedric Yarbrough, and Gary Anthony Williams.

It's going to be fun and a great experience. This year it's special because I'm an associate producer on the show and a writer on the show. You're going to host the Soul Train Awards this weekend.

If I'm in front of the camera, but also behind the camera I enjoy creating. I direct all of my videos, write all of the treatments. I've been in the theater since I was five, I majored in theater at Grambling State University. My first love is acting, I'm from the theater. Music's been my priority for a while because I felt good and I felt good in that genre.

I'm on a series right now on Amazon called Hand of God.

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