I had to create music for 10 episodes per season. And I love a challenge like that, and I took it.Īnother Dallasite, Picnictyme, works with you on that show, right? When I saw it I thought it was hilarious, morbid, terrible and crazy. When he got the co-executive producing gig for Legends, he reached out to me for music. I hosted the Soul Train Awards last year, and he was my co-comedy writer. We're partners, we have a production company together and we write together - different things in the industry, create together for different things. He was also a main writer, character actor and animator for The Boondocks. Carl is the creator of the Adult Swim show Black Dynamite. They reached out to me through my partner, Carl Jones. Badu opened up about everything from her early days doing comedy with Steve Harvey to her current TV show on Comedy Central, for which she collaborates with Dallas producer Picnictyme.ĭallas Observer: How did you get involved with Comedy Central to do the music for The Legends of Chamberlain Heights?īadu: They reached out to me to be the music supervisor for the show. Making time to stop and reflect isn't necessarily a given for the Queen of Neo-Soul, but when she spoke with the Dallas Observer, the conversation went on for nearly an hour.

The week before that, she showed up at American Airlines Center to moonlight with Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Reunion Tour. She celebrated her 45th birthday earlier this year - in style, naturally, with a gala at The Bomb Factory. In the past week alone she played a benefit show at the Dallas Children's Theater and a DJ gig under her Lo Down Loretta Brown moniker at Oaktopia festival in Denton.

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