--- title: Erykah Badu Hotline Bling Remix description: On Thursday, we were treated to a half-cover, half-remix of "Hotline Bling" by the one and only Erykah Badu. canonical: https://time.com/4059564/erykah-badu-hotline-bling-remix/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-02T18:04:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:31.768Z og:title: Listen to Erykah Badu's Epic Remix of Drake's 'Hotline Bling' og:description: She's also releasing a mixtape og:url: https://time.com/4059564/erykah-badu-hotline-bling-remix/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6f3bf4b19c65c7c/698866b1cd1bbabb756fd7be/erykah-badu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2010 og:image:height: 1131 og:image:alt: erykah badu og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Listen to Erykah Badu's Epic Remix of Drake's 'Hotline Bling' twitter:description: She's also releasing a mixtape twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6f3bf4b19c65c7c/698866b1cd1bbabb756fd7be/erykah-badu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Listen to Erykah Badu's Amazing Remix of Drake's 'Hotline Bling' > Sponsored content. 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Singer-songwriter Erykah Badu attends the Givenchy fashion show during Spring 2016 New York Fashion Week at Pier 26 at Hudson River Park in New York City on Sept. 11, 2015. Michael Loccisano—Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 2, 2015 6:04 PM UTC Since Drake released “Hotline Bling” in July, there have been several covers of the single, including a recent rendition by [Sam Smith and Disclosure](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDCcC%5FpsV24). On Thursday, we were treated to a half-cover, half-remix of the summer hit by the one and only Erykah Badu. Badu dropped the track, which was co-written by her and Andre 3000’s son, Seven Benjamin, to hype her upcoming mixtape, _BUT U CAINT USE MY PHONE_. This info was all included in the description section of the [Soundcloud post](https://soundcloud.com/erykah-she-ill-badu/hot-line-bling-but-u-caint-use-my-phone-mix). While Drake and Badu have never recorded anything together, Drizzy’s song “Days in the East” mentions that they once had tea. “Remember one night I went to Erykah Badu house/ She made tea for me/ We talked about love and what life could really be for me,” Drake sings. “She said, when that sh– is real, you just know.” We can only hope that this is a prelude to an actual collaboration between the two. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4059564/erykah-badu-hotline-bling-remix/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4059564/erykah-badu-hotline-bling-remix/"},"headline":"Listen to Erykah Badu's Amazing Remix of Drake's 'Hotline Bling'","datePublished":"2015-10-02T18:04:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:31.768Z","description":"She's also releasing a mixtape","url":"https://time.com/4059564/erykah-badu-hotline-bling-remix/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Drake","Hip-Hop","Songs","singers","musicians"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6f3bf4b19c65c7c/698866b1cd1bbabb756fd7be/erykah-badu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta6f3bf4b19c65c7c/698866b1cd1bbabb756fd7be/erykah-badu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"erykah badu","caption":"erykah badu","creditText":"Michael Loccisano—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4059564/erykah-badu-hotline-bling-remix/","name":"Listen to Erykah Badu's Amazing Remix of Drake's 'Hotline Bling'"}}]}] ```