Erykah Badu has welcomed a baby girl. The girl was born Sunday during a home birth that lasted five hours. Badu has decided to name the little girl either “Mars Merkaba” or “Twitty Milk”. Is it weird that I’m rooting for “Twitty Milk”?
From what I remember of my Mythology 101 class, Mars was the Roman god of war, based on the Greek god Ares. Erykah Badu apparently heard the name “Mars” and thought “What a pretty name for a little girl”. Or perhaps Badu has a fascination with… the Mars rover? Yikes.
Erykah Badu is the perfect example of a no-nonsense mom in this age of instant information: not only did she blog about going into labor with her daughter this weekend, now she’s apparently skipped publicists and press releases and revealed the name of her new baby via her Twitter page as well!
“Our daughter’s name is MARS MERKABA,” she writes, which follows a post from earlier today that read, “her eyes are looking right into mine . she struggles to focus . so much ♥ in her . i wonder where she just came from. i mean .. her spirit…”
However she’d also written “we named our baby twitty milk,” so stay tuned for further potential name changes!
Erykah and boyfriend Jay Electronica welcomed their baby girl on Sunday after a home birth, with Erykah blogging that she didn’t use painkillers over the five-hour labor. This is the third child for Erykah, who has a son and a daughter from two previous relationships.
From OK! Magazine
Speaking of college, I can remember knowing all the words to Badu’s classic “Tyrone”… past that, I haven’t really followed her career. I know a little about her personal life, though. She had her first child, a son names Seven Sirius with Andre3000 of Outkast. She had daughter Puma Rose Sabti in 2004. Puma’s father is West coast rapper The D.O.C. Mars/Twitty’s father is Jay Electronica, Badu’s boyfriend of four years. Congrats to the happy family, and welcome Mars/Twitty!
Update: According to Celebrity Baby Blog, the baby is named Mars Merkaba. That’s not a bad middle name.
Erykah Badu is shown performing on 8/4/08. Credit: WENN
Oh Erykah, you crazy kid!
I’m not gunna lie. That hair scares me.
Twitty Milk? Really no. But Mars Merkaba I like. Merkaba from google:
Merkaba, also spelled Merkabah: “Mer” means Light. “Ka” means Spirit. “Ba” means Body. Mer-Ka-Ba means the spirit/body surrounded by counter-rotating fields of light, (wheels within wheels), spirals of energy as in DNA, which transports spirit/body from one dimension to another.
She always was the Odd duck …
Team Mars Merkaba!
How nice. Three kids. Three fathers. Three weirdo names.
She’s an idiot. I hope she’s finished reproducing. She clearly is not cut out for responsible parenting.
she can do no wrong in my book.
She’s crazy.
But talented as HELL.
She’s such an amazing artist.
wow that kid will be called all kind of names. how could she do that to her child.
love love love miss badu. she can name her kids any damn things she wants.
wiser choice with Mars…why name a kid something that will be shortened to Twit.
Can’t say i’m liking the hammer-pants in that pic however.
Twitty Milk? Like Titty Milk? Glad she went with Mars.
I think that Erykah Badu is the bee’s knees!
Thank gawd she didn’t go with “Uranus”.
Badu is intelligent, way talented, and is probably a great, fun, inspiring mom. Weird names. Whatever. That has no bearing on her parenting skills. She’s certainly not an “idiot”.
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