Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
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Artist: Erykah BaduEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-21
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
- Penitentiary Philosophy
- Didn't Cha Know
- My Life
- ... & On
- Cleva
- Hey Sugah
- Booty
- Kiss Me On My Neck
- A.D. 2000
- Orange Moon
- In Love With You
- Bag Lady
- Time's A Wastin
- Green Eyes
Music reviews of Mama's Gun
Music Review: Mama's Gun - More Erykah and more -izm
Rating: 5 Stars
I remember this album when I was in the 8th grade. This record is soulful and modern. With this album, she has defiened the highest creative potential of music. She fuses the jazz, R&B and hip-hop influences of a lifetime, not only with her voice, but with many talents. Deeply spiritual and rhythmically banging, uplifting yet grounded, sensitive and sensual, it is one more example of the multi-faceted expression we fans value in her. This album reflects a "re-invention" in the calculatedly self-consicous, marketing-driven sense that Hollywood might use the term but quite simply, growth, evolution, and learning. This album has been certified Platinum. Remember, this was 2000.
Description of Mama's Gun
A true tour de force, Mama's Gun is that rare sophomore album that shows a maturing artist at her best. Erykah Badu's voice was always her main attraction--its unique sound has been compared to Billie Holiday and Chaka Khan. Here, it's her skill with that voice that shines. Badu shapes her instrument to suit her material (all of it written or cowritten by her). A full range is represented: On faster, danceable tracks like "Penitentiary Philosophy" and "Booty," she sounds gritty and funky. On softer, more introspective tracks, like "A.D. 2000" and the single "Bag Lady," she shows amazing restraint, letting her voice travel lightly over the notes, allowing the songs' emotions to guide her performance. The high point of the disc is Badu's duet with Stephen Marley, "In Love with You," easily the sweetest, truest love song of the year. That alone is reason enough to buy the disc--and you won't regret having done so. --Courtney KempContemporary Blues CDs
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