Big Bad Mama (Foxy Brown song)

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"Big Bad Mama"
Big Bad Mamma.jpg
Single by Foxy Brown featuring Dru Hill
from the album Ill Na Na and Def Jam's How to Be a Player soundtrack
B-side
  • "Never Seen Before"
  • by EPMD
ReleasedJuly 28, 1997
Recorded1996
Genre Hip hop
Length3:53
Label Def Jam
Songwriter(s) Shawn Carter, Samuel Barnes, Jean-Claude Olivier, Leon Haywood [1]
Producer(s) Trackmasters
Foxy Brown singles chronology
"I'll Be"
(1997)
"Big Bad Mama"
(1997)
"Firm Biz"
(1997)

"Big Bad Mama" is a single by American rapper Foxy Brown and American R&B group Dru Hill from the soundtrack to the 1997 film, How to Be a Player . The song also appeared on the European re-issue of Foxy Brown's debut album, Ill Na Na .

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The song, which was produced by the Trackmasters and based on an interpolation of Carl Carlton's "She's a Bad Mama Jama", became a semi-successful hit, peaking at 53 on the Billboard Hot 100, Foxy's second highest charting single as a solo artist. The single was released with the then recently reunited EPMD's "Never Seen Before" as the B-side.

Single track listing

A side

  1. "Big Bad Mama" (LP version)
  2. "Big Bad Mama" (instrumental)

B side

  1. "Never Seen Before" (LP version)
  2. "Never Seen Before" (LP instrumental)
  3. "Never Seen Before" (remix)

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1997)Peak
position
Europe (European Hot 100 Singles) [2] 45
Germany (Official German Charts) [3] 30
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [4] 33
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [5] 41
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [6] 8
Scotland (OCC) [7] 48
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [8] 51
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [9] 23
UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC) [10] 3
UK Dance (OCC) [11] 2
UK Singles (OCC) [12] 12
US Billboard Hot 100 [13] 53
US Dance Singles Sales ( Billboard ) [14] 3
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [15] 10
US Hot Rap Songs ( Billboard ) [16] 9
US Rhythmic ( Billboard ) [17] 20

Year-end charts

Chart (1997)Position
UK Urban ( Music Week ) [18] 29
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) [19] 65

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