Pitchfork just started this really dope feature where they sit down with various artists and find out where their heads were at musically at the ages of 5, 10, 15, 20, and so on. The first artist to be put under the Pitchfork scope is singer soul-stress Erykah Badu who cites everyone from Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick to Nirvana, showing us exactly just how much of an influence music in general has on such a talented and successful soul singer. “That was my morning, noon, and night music: Kurt Cobain. I connected with his spirit, his freedom, his struggle, his pain, his love. I didn’t misunderstand his message at all. The lyrics were clever and amazing. I knew that the technique was no Jimi Hendrix or Rolling Stones but I felt close to the spirit of it.” Read the rest here.