Mama's Gun

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Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun.jpg
Studio album by
Erykah Badu
ReleasedNovember 21, 2000
Recorded1998–2000
Studio Electric Lady, New York City
Genre
Length71:50
Label
Producer
Erykah Badu chronology
Live
(1997)		Mama's Gun
(2000)		 Worldwide Underground
(2003)
Singles from Mama's Gun
  1. "Bag Lady"
    Released: August 8, 2000
  2. "Didn't Cha Know?"
    Released: November 28, 2000
  3. "Cleva"
    Released: April 17, 2001

Mama's Gun is the second studio album by American singer Erykah Badu. It was recorded between 1999 and 2000 at Electric Lady Studios in New York and released on November 21, 2000, by Motown Records. A neo soul album, Mama's Gun incorporates elements of funk, soul, and jazz styles. [1] It has confessional lyrics by Badu, which cover themes of insecurity, personal relationships, and social issues. [2] The album has been viewed by critics as a female companion to neo soul artist D'Angelo's second album Voodoo (2000), which features a similar musical style and direction. [3] [4] [5] Critics have also noted that while Badu's first album Baduizm contained its share of cryptic lyricism, Mama's Gun is much more direct in its approach, and places the artist in a subjective position more than its predecessor. [6]

Contents

The album contains the single "Bag Lady", Badu's first top 10 Billboard hit, which was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and for Best R&B Song. The song "Didn't Cha Know?" was also nominated for Best R&B Song. The album features substantial contributions from several members of the Soulquarians outfit, of which Badu was a member. It also features guests such as soul singer Betty Wright and trumpeter Roy Hargrove. Mama's Gun was met with generally positive reviews from critics. It was less commercially successful than Baduizm, receiving Platinum certification in the US. Rolling Stone magazine named it one of the Top 10 Albums of 2000.

Background

Following Badu signing to Universal Records, she released her debut studio album Baduizm , in early 1997. The album was met with critical and commercial success, debuting at number two on the Billboard charts and number one on the US Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. [7] [8] Baduizm's commercial and critical success helped establish Badu as one of the emerging neo soul genre's leading artists. [9] Her particular style of singing drew many comparisons to Billie Holiday. [10] Baduizm was certified three times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, Gold by the British Phonographic Industry and the Canadian Recording Industry Association. [11] [12] [13] Badu recorded her first live album, while pregnant with Seven, and the release of the recording coincided with his birth. [14]

Recording

The album was recorded at the Electric Lady Studios. Electric Lady Studios 2013.jpg
The album was recorded at the Electric Lady Studios.

After the success of Baduizm and Live , Badu took a short break to tend to her role as a mother to her newborn child, Seven, whom she had with her partner at the time, André Benjamin. [15] She returned to collaborating with Questlove of The Roots. The frequency of their collaborations led to her becoming a member of the Soulquarians - a collective formed of like-minded musicians, singers and rappers including Questlove, D'Angelo, Jay Dee, and Common (with whom she had previously worked in 1997). Unfortunately, by the time the songs for her follow-up album had begun to materialize, her spousal relationship with Benjamin had already broken down. Badu used the experience as inspiration for several of the songs that she would write, most notably "Green Eyes". [16] Another event, the murder of Amadou Diallo by New York City Police, serves as the basis for the song "A.D. 2000". [17]

As with other Soulquarian collaborations, the majority of the album was recorded at Electric Lady, Jimi Hendrix's personal recording studio, which was also used to create several landmark albums by David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, and John Lennon. Other studios include Dallas Sound Lab and Palmyra Studios in her hometown of Dallas, TX. The sessions were informal, and took place simultaneously with D'Angelo's Voodoo, Common's Like Water for Chocolate , and Bilal's 1st Born Second, resulting in impromptu collaborations and a distinctive sound that can be found among the three albums. [18] Renowned recording engineer, Russell Elevado, who was responsible for the mixing of all four albums, has stated that he used older techniques and vintage mixing gear in order to achieve the warmth found in older recordings. While most current recording techniques involve the use of hi-tech digital equipment, Elevado employed the use of analog equipment including vintage microphones and recording to tape.[ citation needed ]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 80/100 [19]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [20]
Boston Herald Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [21]
Entertainment Weekly B− [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [22]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [23]
Pitchfork 9.4/10 [24]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [25]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [26]
The Village Voice A [27]

Mama's Gun was released by Motown Records on November 21, 2000, and received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 80, based on 16 reviews. [19] Rolling Stone magazine's Touré said Badu abandoned the pretensions of Baduizm in favor of equally profound but more comprehensible lyrics. [2] In The Village Voice , Robert Christgau wrote that she improved her ability as a composer on Mama's Gun and also took note of her lyrics: "Maybe her sources are autobiographical, but she’s here to inspire all black-identified women and the men who admire them." [27] The A.V. Club 's Keith Phipps praised her lyrical themes and the album's "deceptively simple arrangements, a lovely breakup suite ('Green Eyes'), and near-infinite replay value". [28] PopMatters critic Wayne Franklin found the record compelling in its personal scope of Badu's psyche, calling it "a definite work of art, destined to remain in heavy rotation for some time to come". [29]

Although most reviews were favorable, Mama's Gun was not as successful with consumers and critics as Baduizm had been; [30] Q wrote that Badu's debut had raised expectations she did not meet on Mama's Gun, while Entertainment Weekly said it was plagued by "a reactionary pseudo-sophistication that too often substitutes good taste for good tunes." [3] [25] According to Badu in an interview a few months after the album's release, "it has sold 1.4 million in the US. So no, it didn't sell as much ... although creatively I feel like this is a better piece of work." She felt disappointed at first about its commercial performance, but was encouraged by the response from listeners at her concerts: "When I started to tour again and saw all the people show up who knew the words, it was confirmation that the work is not always for commercial success. It's also for spiritual upliftment." [30]

At the end of 2000, Mama's Gun was voted the 15th best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published by The Village Voice. [31] Christgau, the poll's supervisor, ranked it ninth best on his own year-end list. [32] The Times named it the ninth best record of the year.[ citation needed ] It was also ranked ninth by Rolling Stone, [33] while Jon Pareles named it the year's fifth best album in his list for The New York Times . [34] The newspaper's Ben Ratliff later said Mama's Gun and D'Angelo's Voodoo were "the great neo-soul records of 2000". [35] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . [36] In the 2020 reboot of their list of 'The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time', Rolling Stone ranked Mama's Gun at number 158. [37]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Penitentiary Philosophy"
  • Badu
  • Poyser
  • Thompson [a]
  • Palladino [a]
6:09
2."Didn't Cha Know?"Badu
3:58
3."My Life"
  • Badu
  • Poyser
  • Badu
  • Poyser
  • Jay Dee [a]
3:59
4."...& On"
  • Jah Born
  • Badu
3:34
5."Cleva"
  • Badu
  • Poyser
  • Badu
  • Poyser
3:45
6."Hey Sugah"
Badu0:54
7."Booty"Badu
  • Badu
  • Poyser [a]
4:04
8."Kiss Me on My Neck (Hesi)"
5:34
9."A.D. 2000"
4:51
10."Orange Moon"
Badu7:10
11."In Love with You" (featuring Stephen Marley)
  • Badu
  • Marley
5:21
12."Bag Lady"
Badu5:48
13."Time's a Wastin'"
  • Badu
  • Martin
6:42
14."Green Eyes"
  • Badu
  • Poyser
  • Duplaix
10:04
2001 re-issue bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
15."Bag Lady" (Cheeba Sac Radio Edit)
  • Badu
  • Martin
  • Hayes
  • Young
  • Bailey
  • Longmiles
  • Brown
  • Hale
Badu4:11
2002 Dutch edition bonus disc
No.TitleWriter(s)Producers(s)Length
1."Tyrone" (live)
  • Badu
  • Norman Hurt
 3:55
2."Hollywood"
Badu5:35
3."Drama"
  • Badu
  • Tyallen Macklin
  • Badu
  • Bob Power
6:04
4."Your Precious Love" (featuring D'Angelo)
4:40
5."Bag Lady" (Basement Boys Afrocentric Mix)
  • Badu
  • Martin
  • Hayes
  • Young
  • Bailey
  • Longmiles
  • Brown
  • Hale
 Basement Boys (remix)8:22
6."Bag Lady" (Enhanced video)
  • Badu
  • Martin
  • Hayes
  • Young
  • Bailey
  • Longmiles
  • Brown
  • Hale
Badu4:08
7."Didn't Cha Know" (Enhanced video)Badu
  • Jay Dee
  • Badu
4:03

Notes

Personnel

Musicians

Horns arranged by Roy Hargrove:

Strings on tracks 3 and 13, arranged by Larry Gold:

Production

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [59] Gold50,000^
Japan (RIAJ) [60] Gold100,000^
Netherlands (NVPI) [61] Gold40,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [62] Silver60,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [63] Gold100,000‡
United States (RIAA) [64] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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