Bursting with the energy and the righteous discontent of King’s letter from a Birmingham jail (in which he declared to the world “why we can’t wait” for liberation), it recalls the sonic palette of Maggot Brain-era Funkadelic while venturing further down the road of trenchant social critique that Badu had already begun to walk on Baduizm’s “Other Side of the Game,” her third single off of that album and one that planted her firmly in the run of socially-conscious hip-hop culture. It’s the sound of sitting in the sanctuary together and having frank and easy conversations with one another as she wistfully warns of a future without a plan (“Ain’t no tellin where you’ll land…”). Mama's Gun is the second studio album by American neo soul singer Erykah Badu. It has confessional lyrics by Badu, which cover themes of insecurity, personal relationships, and social issues. 8 . Her music brimmed with the suggestion—albeit a conflicted one—to wait for it. Each copy is signed. The tour started in North America on February 10 in Cleveland, Ohio at the Allen Theatre. Music video by Erykah Badu performing Didn't Cha Know. A neo soul album, Mama's Gun incorporates funk, soul, and jazz styles. The album was recorded at Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland Studios in Greenwich Village, Manhattan in 1999-2000, and what a dream team she had with her. It has confessional lyrics by Badu, which cover themes of insecurity, personal relationships, and social issues. Editors' Notes Like everyone else, we first fell in love with Erykah Badu on her 1997 debut single, “On & On”. On September 16, 2003, she released her … Mama's Gun is Erykah Badu's second studio album. When the neo-soul trend began to dissipate in the mid-2000s, Erykah successfully managed to transcend it while others struggled to distance themselves from that marker and maintain their relevance. But Badu would consistently put her own bold and wickedly sharp twist on such themes. Opening with a nod to Lady Day-era jazz vocalizing, “Green Eyes” crackles with the sound of vinyl as Badu croons a torch song lament that rolls with fits and starts through jealousy, fear, resignation, regret, resolution. For sure, some of the album’s metaphors flirt with cabaret cliché. Mama's Gun, an Album by Erykah Badu. To the church they head for a spiritual revival to “let it go, let it go, let it go.” Badu’s Red Lady advises her sisteren to “pack light”—let go of the harmful elements of the past--or else “you gon’ miss your bus.” It’s a song that contemplates how to not let the baggage weigh you down and make you wait, and it offers a way forward for women of color (many colors here) by way of a text from the bygone 1970s black feminist renaissance era. From the moment Prince’s party ran out of time and the ball dropped in Times Square to signal a new millennium, people were waiting. The album contains the single "Bag Lady", a top 10 Billboard hit, nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and for Best R&B Song. In the Oprahfied age of black female self-help narratives led by Iyanla Vanzant and novelist Terry McMillan, she continued her rise as an icon of black bohemian positivity (“Free your mind and find your way/There will be a brighter day”). Badu continues to grow with Mama's Gun, her third release. From 1993, when Me’shell NdegéOcello stepped out ahead of everyone with Plantation Lullabies on Madonna’s Maverick label to D’Angelo’s 1995 first effort Brown Sugar (often erroneously referred to as the first in the genre) a year later to Maxwell’s debut (Urban Hang Suite) to Lauryn Hill’s insta-classic Miseducation in ’98 to oddball soulster Macy Gray’s one-hit smash On How Life Is in ’99, to the year 2000 when Jill Scott made her first LP (Who Is Jill Scott? With its Puffy-designed excess and materialism, hip-hop soul was always at odds with the political earthiness of the neo bunch. Smooth Jazz All Stars Renditions of Erykah Badu (2015).zip. Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, the album incorporates Funk, Soul and Jazz styles. It was recorded between 1999 and 2000 at Electric Lady Studios in New York and released on November 21, 2000, by Motown Records. Considering that the lowest point isn't as low as most artists achieve, this is not meant as a serious complaint. It was recorded between 1999 and 2000 at Electric Lady Studios in New York and released on November 21, 2000, by Motown Records. “On & On,” Badu’s breakthrough single from her 1997 smash debut Baduizm, became an anthem for this kind of indelible, cool-breeze, fitfulness. But Mama’s Gun turned an important page as she set out to pair songs that evoked the art of exquisite and romantically-charged lingering and hanging (the “urban hang suite,” as Maxwell would call it on his own debut album from 1996) alongside songs about being fed up with stasis, isolation, restriction and aborted dreams. No matter which album is your favorite—they're all justifiable candidates that do things differently—it's impossible to deny what Mama's Gun did for Erykah Badu and neo-soul overall. It comes on 2LP scarlet and gold vinyl, and was remastered by Barry Grint at Alchemy Mastering. A neo soul album, Mama's Gun incorporates funk, soul, and jazz styles. Yet the bounce on this track clearly echoes that of the Yonkers R&B diva’s album of the same name. 188 MB; 0. 012-153287-2; CD). Mama's Gun Erykah Badu. `Mama's Gun' begins at possibly its lowest point and ends at possibly it's highest. The inadequacies of institutional education—it’s inability to address the specific needs and concerns of black women—are put on blast as each “colored woman” shrugs her shoulders to the beat of Elevado’s mix and Badu’s own deft production. Features ‘Mama’s Gun’: Erykah Badu’s Lessons On Self-Survival. Her many references to the Five Percent Nation and Afrocentric cosmologies on Baduizm announced the arrival of new black nationalist soul, steeped in astrologically configured wisdom (“My cypher keeps moving like a rolling stone”) and headed toward an Afrofuturist destination to be determined. lekker winkelen zonder zorgen. It was nominated for two Grammys at the 2002 award show and was Badu’s first time entering the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Badu went through a high profile break-up with Outkast’s Andre “3000” Benjamin, the father of her first child, as she began to work on the album. Recorded primarily at New York’s famous Electric Lady Studios. Ze brak door met haar tweede plaat en eerste soloalbum: Baduizm Erykah Badu -But You Caint Use My Phone.zip. At its core, Mama’s Gun is an album that understands just how essential black love is to any movement to fight the power, and it also recognizes just how expensive it is to lose it. Don’t take your time, young man…” The brothers who are lost, the brothers who can’t find their way in an “oh-so-strange world” remain near and dear to Badu’s heart, and she offers them visions of the beautiful journey that awaits them, one that can change and restore their hope because “oh baby we need to smile…” Badu is no prophetess or preacher like her counterpart Hill, but she leans into this song’s alluring keyboard arrangement which, at the bridge, evokes the sound of the “incidental” church organ, what black studies critic Ashon Crawley brilliantly refers to as “nothing music,” the music of the organist doodling and improvising underneath the riffing of the deacon or the pastor or the volunteer bake sale representative. It was recorded between 1999 and 2000 at Electric Lady Studios in New York and released on November 21, 2000, by Motown Records. Erykah Badu Mama's Gun . The breakout single from ‘Mama’s Gun’ was “Bag Lady,” a record about the freedom that comes with letting go. In loving tribute to Ntozake Shange’s 1975 pathbreaking choreopoem drama For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, the video for “Bag Lady” re-stages signature scenes and images from the play as the song revisits its major themes of self-love, self-discovery, unrequited love, gender conflict and communication, emotional and psychological bruising, failure, redemption, and personal fulfillment for black women. 95 MB +1. Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun [CD] $16.99 . This was neo soul at arguably its most prolific and thrilling moment of growth and possibility. And the list of remarkable artists who broke onto the scene alongside of Badu working this sound in the year of and leading up to 2000 underscores what a busy, passionate, and productive time it was. Badu gently admonishes her listeners to get to going, drawing on the Brixton trans-Atlantic migratory sound of Soul II Soul on “Time’s a Wastin,” a “Keep On Movin’”-style new-millennium anthem and something of a partner song to “Penitentiary Philosophy” that warns against drifting and advises listeners to “Make your money last/Learn from your past…. More related. When the neo-soul trend began to dissipate in the mid-2000s, Erykah successfully managed to transcend it while others struggled to distance themselves from that marker and maintain their relevance. In 1999, Electric Lady Studios housed rotating sessions for Mama’s Gun, Common’s uplifting breakthrough Like … Genres: Neo-Soul. On Feb. 4, 1999, … About “Mama’s Gun” Erykah Badu’s sophomore album was not so much a departure from it’s predecessor, Baduizm (a smooth, soulful 70’s informed record), but more of a refinement. But it shouldn’t be forgotten that Badu entered the game being left of center. Erykah Badu Mama's Gun . Featured peformers: Erykah Badu (executive producer, producer, vocals, art direction), James Poyser (associate producer), Tom Coyne (mastering), Chris Gehringer (mastering), Kelly Thompson … Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun was a risk. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2000 CD release of Mama's Gun on Discogs. It was nominated for two Grammys at the 2002 award show and was Badu’s first time entering the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Go directly to shout page. Covering themes of insecurity, social issues and personal relationships, Badu delivered a highly intimate and personal album that reached Platinum two months after its release. Words and Sounds Volume I), these were exciting times when black singer-songwriter musicians were referencing Black Panther memoirs, African-American Studies history books, and deep cuts from reluctant soul icons like Bill Withers. Featured peformers: Erykah Badu (executive producer, producer, vocals, art direction), James Poyser (associate producer), Tom Coyne (mastering), Chris Gehringer (mastering), Kelly Thompson … Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun was a risk. Official Video 'In Love With You' Erykah Badu _ Stephen Marley- Mama's Gun.mp3. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Mama’s Gun was a natural jam session, but Badu was still hyperconscious of the mistreatment of Black men while raising a son. Levering bij je thuis of in de winkel - Fnac. Het gegeven dat dit album, ondanks de niet misselijke bijdrage van de genoemde topartiesten, echt een product is van Erykah Badu zelf, getuige de zelf geschreven teksten en de eigen producties, draagt nog meer bij aan de sympathie voor de plaat. “Here’s my philosophy/Livin’ in a penitentiary…” she declares, dropping verses like Gil Scott-Heron, “Brothers all on the corner/Tryin’ to make believe/Turn around ain’t got no pot to pee/Make me mad when I see you sad… you can’t win when your will is weak/When you’re knocked on the ground….” In the same year that David Simon dropped “The Corner” and two years before his masterpiece “The Wire,” Badu was still singing about the effects of the game from a woman’s point of view (something Simon’s shows were often, at best, half-assed about doing). With its looped sample of Stevie’s “Ordinary Pain,” “Penitentiary Philosophy” stays focused on the perils and corrosive effects of streets that don’t love you, streets that can trap you. 95 MB +1. “This is how I look without makeup/And with no bra my ninny’s sag down,” she sings on “Cleva,” sounding like a modern day Moms Mabley. Badu got flack from some critics for the beatnik flute and cosmic references on “Orange Moon.” But the thread that ties these tracks together is the flow that is freedom—freedom to pursue new love (on “In Love With You,” a birds-tweeting, Spanish-inflected guitar ballad that finds Badu doing her best Deniece Williams impression and in duet with Stephen Marley), freedom to pursue pleasure (“Kiss Me on My Neck (Hesi)”) for herself. Add to My Collection. With great critical success and sold strongly album received mainly excellent reviews verdient niets … 's. 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