Story By Erykah Badu

Here i am Miss Badu Not Big Sean, but “I Don't Fuck With You” It's cause I'm from D, the other D But Detroit had a special place in my heart Creative, Deep, Rooted, Organic, Cosmic Fantastic, Futuristic, Ancient, Musical When i think of Detroit i think of these things There's something in that dirty water that just gives it its flavor There is an invisible intelligence That runs through the streets Like an underground rooting system Millions and billions of memories of atoms of all of the beautiful music that has been created there And I have seen it еvolve into, thangs only felt in the hеart I know this to he true Thank You, Berry Gordy for that little house Thank You Stevie Wonder for always calling me and reminding me that it is there That thang I always long to connect with it when I lose my way musically Thank You J Dilla, for your peculiar- peculiar intelligence Yeah, Detroit just has a magic and I know it to be true Not Big Sean, but “I Don't Fuck With You” Live from Badu-bootron To be a phenomenon Detroit: where the nubians grow