Erykah Badu covers Essence magazine’s new April issue. Badu discusses demanding respect, being a single mom, and her ex-boyfriends Andre 3000 and Common in the cover story.  “I didn’t even see the purpose of marriage. Now I see the goodness in having a partner. But I don’t belong to anybody; I belong to the world right now,” she says in the issue. Included in this issue are interviews with with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s youngest, Bernice King, and Anucha Browne Sanders about life since winning $11.5 million in her sexual harassment suit against Madison Square Garden and New York Knicks coach and Isiah Thomas.