The DOC has revealed the details of his breakup with Erykah Badu.
Appearing on Willie D Live, The DOC shared what happened between him and a legendary singer.
After being in a relationship with Badu for four years, he moved back to Dallas after having a “huge blowout” with Dr. Dre.
“The way I felt the story hadn’t ended for me yet, you know. I was still trying to figure out how I’m going to write a happy ending to this story,” he said.
The DOC said that when his daughter, Puma Curry with Badu, turned four, Dre reached out to him to work on his next project.
“Erykah and I had been together for three, four years. She cleaned me up. No more drugs and alcohol. You know, I’m a father now,” DOC continued. “I still had a desire to be something of somebody. And I hadn’t figured out how to create art again yet. So, when Dre called, that feeling came back, and I wanted to go. And she didn’t want me to go. She thought it was a bad decision. She thought ‘What’s going to be different?’”
Badu said that DOC would wind up “in the same hole” as before. While DOC thought “differently,” he admitted Badu was “right.”
“But she said, you know, if you going to go, then just go,” DOC recalled.
“I wanted to go, and she received that and let me go,” DOC said. “Now, we both knew when I left that we weren’t going to be able to come back to what it was. And we acknowledged that and just moved forward.”
Badu has an older child, Seven Sirius Benjamin, now 27, with André 3000. She also shares her youngest daughter, Mars, 16, with Jay Electronica.
The DOC said that he and Badu are still friends, and she was his wife’s doula.