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Erykah Badu owns the Internet today with her Drake cover. She explains (kinda).

If you are on the Internet -- and clearly you are, unless someone printed this out for you, in which case, hi, Dad -- then you must be aware that Erykah Badu currently owns it thanks to the her redo of Drake's "Hotline Bling." It's everywhere. Has been since its bow yesterday, when The Lady of White Rock Lake posted it to her Soundcloud page as an offering from her mixtape BUT U CAINT USE MY PHONE.

It's far more than just a redo -- it's a wholesale do-over co-written by her almost 18-year-old son Seven and performed by an all-local, all-Arts Magnet-grad band consisting of Zach Witness (on keybs, also serving as producer-arranger), Ethan Worland on brushes and Ben Hixon on guitar. Tweeted Witness earlier today: "I think we broke the internet." Or fixed it.

Vulture writes about how this is pretty much Badu's response to Drake's "Days in the East"; guess so. But in Today's Greatest Textplanation Ever, Badu writes, "Drake is an intelligent and talented singer/songwriter. I feel it. If it feels good to me I won't deny it. He just keep em comin' somehow ... (That's what she said.)"

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Yet another reminds that Dallas should never, ever take Erykah Badu for granted.

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