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Mama's Gun

Album

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

2000R&B/Soul · Music

Badu outgrew her debut’s coffee house neo-soul with this raw, funky masterpiece.
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Details

Release date
Record label
Motown (Kedar)
Tracks
14
Content rating
Explicit

℗ 2000 Universal Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

Tracks

  1. 1
    Penitentiary Philosophy
    Erykah Badu
    6:09
  2. 2
    Didn't Cha Know
    Erykah Badu
    4:02
  3. 3
    My Life
    Erykah Badu
    3:59
  4. 4
    ...& On
    Erykah Badu
    3:34
  5. 5
    Cleva (feat. Roy Ayers)
    Erykah Badu
    3:45
  6. 6
    Hey Sugah (Interlude)
    Erykah Badu
    0:51
  7. 7
    Booty
    Erykah Badu
    4:04
  8. 8
    Kiss Me On My Neck
    Erykah Badu
    5:34
  9. 9
    A.D. 2000
    Erykah Badu
    4:51
  10. 10
    Orange Moon
    Erykah Badu
    7:10
  11. 11
    In Love With You (feat. Stephen Marley)
    Erykah Badu
    5:21
  12. 12
    Bag Lady
    Erykah Badu
    5:48
  13. 13
    Time's A Wastin
    Erykah Badu
    6:40
  14. 14
    Green Eyes
    Erykah Badu
    10:05

About this album

Like everyone else, we first fell in love with Erykah Badu on her 1997 debut single, “On & On.” But it was her 2000 sophomore studio album, Mama’s Gun—creatively restless, stylistically adventurous, lyrically direct—that made us stay in love. The screaming live-band funk of opener “Penitentiary Philosophy” tells you right away you shouldn’t settle in expecting a rehash of her debut’s smooth R&B. And while a remix of “Bag Lady” was its biggest single, we’ll never get over album closer “Green Eyes,” a wrenching, ravishing song suite narrating the end of a relationship.