Jill Scott is on stage with The Rotts. Opening chords of "Baby you got me" - feels like it's may just be the best performance for this amazing track yet (may even top the absolutely amazing one from "The Roots Come Alive") and along the way take this movie to the next level - when something terrible happens - Erikah Badu grabs a mike and decided she wants to sing the chorus after the first verse by Black Thought. Poor Jill Scott doesn't know what's hit her or what's happening because she has her back to Erikah which shamelessly starts 'squaking away' (believe the acronym is accurate) the chorus at the top of her lungs trying to... I actually can't imagine what she is trying to do except maybe prevent everyone who sees this movie from realizing that Scott does it ten times better than she ever could. Jill, meanwhile, is doing her best to keep some sort of harmony going in-spite of the terrible interruption, as does the rest of the (amazing) band - to no avail. Ms. Badu has totally violated the song to the point that it is unrecognizable. Along the way she has also shamed herself and denied the audience and us, the viewers of the beautiful and incredible Jill Scott. I could not actually believe that this bit was not left on the editing room floor - that how terrible it is after Erikah is done with it. What a shame.
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