Seven Sirius Benjamin: Born Into Music History, Quietly Becoming His Own Person

Quick Bio

Detail	Information
Full Name	Seven Sirius Benjamin
Born	November 18, 1997, Dallas, Texas, USA
Nationality	American
What He Does	Private individual; reportedly interested in music and creative arts
Biggest Accomplishments	Being the son of two of the most well-known musicians in contemporary American music—the subject of the famous Outkast song “Ms.”—I grew up with an extraordinary sense of groundedness. Jackson”; appeared in a viral Father’s Day photograph with both parents in 2016 that became widely celebrated as an example of healthy co-parenting; raised in Dallas primarily by his mother Erykah Badu with active co-parenting by his father André 3000, who relocated to Texas for two years during Seven’s teenage years
Other Key Facts	His name “Seven” holds numerological significance in both Islamic tradition and African spiritual practice, consistent with his mother’s worldview; his half-siblings include Puma Sabti Curry (Erykah Badu’s daughter with The D.O.C.) and Mars Merkaba (Erykah Badu’s son with Jay Electronica); Erykah Badu has noted that Seven takes after his father, André, in many ways

Why This Name Keeps Showing Up

Think about the raw material here for a second. Your father is André 3000 — one of the most gifted, unconventional, intellectually restless artists hip-hop has ever produced, a man who turned down every expectation placed on him and won two Grammy Awards for it. Your mother is Erykah Badu — the Queen of Neo-Soul, the woman who made a debut album in 1997 that sounded like nothing before or since, who has spent three decades being an artist on her own terms with zero apology to anyone.

And you exist at the exact center of their love story. You were the reason André wrote one of the most beloved songs of the 2000s as an apology to your grandmother. You spent your childhood in Dallas while your father went back to Atlanta, and then your father moved to Texas for two years to be closer to you as a teenager. You have two parents who were unable to remain together but who, over time and with sincere effort, learned how to become something more unique and enduring than a couple — actual friends.

Seven Sirius Benjamin is 28 years old in 2026. He has no public career. He has no verified social media presence. And yet people keep searching for him, because his existence is embedded in some of the most important music of the past thirty years, and because the family story surrounding him is genuinely one of the most interesting co-parenting stories in modern American culture.

Dallas, Texas: The City That Raised Him

Erykah Badu was born in Dallas. She grew up there. She built her identity there. And when Seven arrived in November 1997, Dallas was where he would be raised too — primarily in his mother’s orbit, inside the specific cultural landscape that had produced her.

Dallas gets underestimated in the American cultural conversation. People talk about Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles. But Dallas has its own deep musical tradition, its own Black cultural community with roots going back generations, and a particular energy that Erykah Badu has embodied and articulated probably better than any other artist in the city’s history. Seven Sirius grew up inside that.

His mother purchased a home in Oak Cliff, a historically Black area on Dallas’ south side that has long been essential to the city’s cultural character.Oak Cliff is a neighborhood with a soul, a feeling of its own history, rhythms, and customs. Erykah didn’t just live there; she was part of the fabric of it. Birthday parade parties that drew neighbors and fans. A household that felt like a community space as much as a home.

Seven grew up in that environment. It was bohemian in the best sense — artistically rich, spiritually expansive, not governed by conventional norms.

The Parents and What They Each Brought

His mother is Erica Abi Wright, born February 26, 1971, in Dallas. The world knows her as Erykah Badu. She released Baduizm in 1997 — the same year Seven was born — and the album landed like a fully formed world of its own. Soul, jazz, hip-hop, Afrocentrism, spirituality, heartbreak, humor. She was 26 years old and sounded like someone who had been observing human nature for centuries.

She raised Seven with a philosophy that runs through everything she does — the idea that individual consciousness matters, that you don’t follow convention because it’s comfortable, that creativity and spiritual awareness are not separate from ordinary life but woven into it. Her household has been described, in various interviews she’s given over the years, as unconventional. She homeschooled her children for periods. She maintained a deep connection to African spiritual traditions. She talked to her kids like people.

His father is André Lauren Benjamin, born May 27, 1975, in Atlanta. André 3000 is one of those artists where you just run out of adjectives that feel adequate. As one half of OutKast alongside Big Boi, he helped construct the soundscape of Atlanta hip-hop in the 1990s and then spent the following decades refusing to fit into any category anyone tried to build for him. He took long hiatuses from rap. He developed passions for fashion, for playing flute in airports, for not being what anyone expected. In 2023, he released a full-length album of ambient flute compositions called New Blue Sun, which surprised absolutely everyone and made perfect sense to anyone who had been paying attention.

Seven inherited parents who were both, in their own distinct ways, completely their own people. That’s a specific kind of upbringing.

The Song Written About His Grandmother: “Ms. Jackson”

In 2000, OutKast released Stankonia, which many critics consider one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever made. Its second single was “Ms. Jackson,” sent to a former partner’s mother following the breakdown of a relationship including a child.The song opens with the now-iconic sung line of apology. It went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It has been sampled, covered, referenced, and played at weddings and funerals and everything in between for over two decades.

The “Ms. Jackson” in the song is Erykah Badu’s mother. André was writing to his son’s grandmother, expressing regret, gratitude, and the complicated emotion of a man who had loved someone deeply, had a child with her, and was now navigating what came after.

Erykah Badu has spoken about hearing the song for the first time. She described being at work on her own album when a fellow musician burst in to play it for her. She said André’s verse made her feel understood. Her mother, rather than taking offense, reportedly bought a Ms. Jackson license plate and merchandise. She loved it. The grandmother at the center of a number-one apology was apparently charmed.

Seven Sirius would have been two or three years old when that song was recorded. He couldn’t have understood it then. By the time he was old enough to comprehend that one of the most famous songs of the early 2000s was a letter to his grandmother, written by his father, about his parents’ relationship — that’s a specific kind of biographical weight to carry.

How His Parents Figured Out Co-Parenting

Because it’s so uncommon, this is the aspect of Seven’s story that merits the greatest attention. Around 1999, André 3000 and Erykah Badu parted ways.They had a two-year-old. They were both ascending musical artists with demanding careers and public lives. The circumstances that usually produce bitterness, dysfunction, and damage to the children involved were all present.

Instead, they built something different. Erykah described it to the journalist Summer Walker in a Rolling Stone conversation: they hadn’t been friends first when they were romantic. They had been attracted to each other, then together, then apart. But co-parenting Seven over the years had given them time to actually know each other. She considered André to be one of her best friends on the earth by the time Seven was in his twenties.

André moved to Dallas for two years when Seven was a teenager — this detail comes from a Dallas Morning News report in September 2024. He wasn’t just paying child support and showing up for holidays. He moved to be physically present for a considerable portion of his son’s teenage years.That’s commitment that goes past what the law requires and into what a parent decides matters.

Erykah has taken all three of her children — Seven, Puma, and Mars — on tour with her at various points. They grew up backstage, in studios, in the periphery of the music industry rather than at its center, which is exactly the right exposure level. You take in the culture without being overtaken by it.

In 2016, a Father’s Day photograph surfaced of André and Erykah with Seven between them, all three smiling. The internet responded to it with something that felt like relief — here was evidence that people could bring a child into the world, separate, and still show up together at the table. The photo circulated widely. It became its own small argument for the possibility of something better.

Seven’s Siblings and the Extended Family

Seven is Erykah’s oldest child, but he is not her only one. His half-sister Puma Sabti Curry was born in 2004, daughter of Erykah and Dallas producer Tracy Lynn Curry, known as The D.O.C. His half-brother Mars Merkaba Thedford was born in 2009, son of Erykah and rapper Jay Electronica.

What’s interesting about the Badu household is that all three of Erykah’s co-parents — André, The D.O.C., and Jay Electronica — come from the same musical universe. All three are significant figures in hip-hop and R&B. Erykah has navigated co-parenting relationships with all three without visible acrimony, which reflects either exceptional personal maturity or exceptional personal magnetism or, most likely, both.

Growing up, Seven was the oldest of two younger siblings who shared his mother but not his father.That structure has its own textures — the particular responsibility and identity of the oldest child, the way you define yourself partly in relation to those who came after you.

What We Know About Who He Is Now

Seven Sirius Benjamin is 28 in 2026. He is private. He has reportedly shown creative and musical inclinations — his mother has noted in interviews that he takes after his father in temperament and sensibility, which given what André 3000 is like as an artist, suggests someone thoughtful and unconventional. But whether he pursues music professionally, or something else entirely, is not public knowledge.

He has no confirmed social media presence. He appears occasionally in family photographs shared by his mother. He has, across his entire life, managed to be the son of two of the most analyzed and celebrated artists of the past thirty years without becoming a public figure himself. That is not easy. It is, in its own way, an achievement.

The Money Picture

Neither Seven Sirius Benjamin’s career salary nor his net worth have been objectively determined.His father André 3000’s net worth is estimated in the range of $35 million. His mother Erykah Badu’s net worth is estimated at approximately $10 million, built across a career of albums, touring, acting roles, and producing work. Both parents are financially comfortable by any measure.

Seven’s financial resources come from his personal business, which he has not disclosed to the public. At 28, whatever financial foundation he’s building is being built privately.

Final Words

What makes Seven Sirius Benjamin’s story worth telling isn’t really about him as an individual subject — it’s about the extraordinary web of choices that surrounded his arrival and upbringing. Two parents who could have been just another cautionary tale about relationships between ambitious young artists. Instead they built, across decades, something that looks from the outside like genuine respect, genuine friendship, and a genuine commitment to the person they made together.

Seven was raised in Dallas by a legendary mother. His father moved there to be near him as a teenager. The romantic complexity of his family is preserved in a number-one song. His grandmother loved the apology so much she bought the merchandise.

He has, apparently, grown into someone who keeps his own counsel and his own life private. In a world that would celebrate his name for free if he let it, he has chosen not to. That is a particular kind of quiet dignity, and it didn’t come from nowhere.

FAQs

1. Who is Seven Sirius Benjamin?

He is the son of OutKast rapper André 3000 and neo-soul legend Erykah Badu. Born November 18, 1997, in Dallas, Texas, he has grown up primarily in Dallas and has maintained a private life as an adult.

2. Why is his name Seven?

The name Seven carries numerological and spiritual significance that aligns with Erykah Badu’s Afrocentric spiritual worldview. The number seven holds meaning in multiple traditions including Islamic numerology and African cosmology. It was a deliberate and meaningful naming choice.

3. What is the song “Ms. Jackson” about and does it involve Seven?

“Ms. Jackson” by OutKast was written by André 3000 as an apology to Erykah Badu’s mother — Seven’s maternal grandmother — after André and Erykah’s relationship ended. Seven existed at the center of the story the song tells. Erykah confirmed the song was about her and her mother in a 2016 interview with the Rap Radar podcast.

4. How did André 3000 and Erykah Badu co-parent Seven?

Very successfully by all accounts. They developed a deep friendship over the years of co-parenting. André relocated to Dallas for approximately two years during Seven’s adolescence. Erykah has described André as one of her closest friends. The two maintain mutual respect, warmth, and an ongoing connection centered on their son.

5. Does Seven Sirius Benjamin have siblings?

Yes. His half-sister is Puma Sabti Curry, born 2004, Erykah’s daughter with rapper The D.O.C. His half-brother is Mars Merkaba Thedford, born 2009, Erykah’s son with Jay Electronica. Seven is the eldest of Erykah’s three children.

6. Where did Seven Sirius Benjamin grow up?

Primarily in Dallas, Texas, in the Oak Cliff neighborhood where his mother Erykah Badu lives and has deep community roots. In addition, he lived in Atlanta, the birthplace of his father André 3000. When Seven was a teenager, André lived in Texas for almost two years.

7. What is Seven Sirius Benjamin doing now in 2026?

He is 28 years old and living privately. No public career has been established. He appears occasionally in family photos on his mother’s social media. His interests and current pursuits remain his own.

8. What is Seven Sirius Benjamin’s net worth?

He has no independently established net worth. André 3000’s net worth is estimated at approximately $35 million. Erykah Badu’s is estimated at approximately $10 million. Seven’s own financial situation is private.

9. Does Seven take after his mother or his father?

Erykah Badu has said in interviews that Seven takes after his father in many ways. André 3000 is known for his philosophical, unconventional, quietly intense personality and his approach to creativity. Based on his mother’s observations, Seven’s temperament aligns more closely with that.

10. Why did the 2016 Father’s Day photo become famous?

The photograph showed André 3000, Erykah Badu, and Seven together, all three smiling on Father’s Day. It went viral because it was viewed as a compelling, real-life illustration of two parents who had parted ways yet remained close for their child. In a culture that tends to default to drama, the image felt genuinely meaningful.

11. Did André 3000 write any other songs connected to his relationship with Erykah Badu or their son?

Indeed. Erykah Badu made an appearance on the OutKast album Aquemini on the song “Liberation,” and André made references to the relationship and its aftermath in other OutKast songs. The two worked together creatively even after their romantic relationship ended, most notably on Erykah’s 2015 mixtape But You Cain’t Use My Phone, which featured André.

12. How did Erykah Badu describe her friendship with André 3000 in 2026?

Around 2020, Erykah called André one of her closest pals on the earth in a widely reported interview.She explained that their friendship deepened over the years of co-parenting. She said their relationship can shift into different forms depending on the moment — like siblings, like family — and that she cares deeply about his life, his art, and his wellbeing.

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