Erykah Badu, the American singer-songwriter who reintroduced the term “woke” to a new generation with her 2008 song “Master Teacher,” has spoken out about the latest conservative attacks surrounding the word.
surrounding the word, “shredding” Republicans in the process, according to MSNBC. Speaking to the outletNew Amerykah Part One ,
in which the track appears. “We did start a lot of stuff on there,” Badu says, reflecting on the lyric that started it all: “I stay woke.” She used the term againin support of Russian girl band Pussy Riot, and, according to Badu, “woke took off.” Melber then showed her an array of statements from Donald Trump in 2021 who described woke as “fascism that will destroy our nation,” and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2022, who said “Florida is where woke goes to die.
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