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Mama's Gun by: Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu List Price: $13.98 CD-Charts Price: $9.97 You Save: $4.01 (29%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0601215325928 Label: Motown Manufacturer: Motown Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Motown Release Date: November 21, 2000 Studio: Motown Sales Rank: 3649 MPN: 153259 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: 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 Kemp Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Mama's Gun - More Erykah and more -izmI 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. Rating: - favorite erykah cdi have all of her cd's and this one is my favorite. i love every song on this album. this one for me really speaks to the soul, if you listen closely to the lyrics. favorite track is green eyes. Rating:  - Mama's Gun50/50. First of all Erika Badu is exquisite!. The first half of the music indicates a new direction for Ms. Badu. The second half brought me home. Get it and love it!Mama's Gun Rating: - Best of the decadeThis is not only the best album of the year in its category, its the best of the decade. I continously listen to it. It just beats all the other album in terms of swinging R/B, originality and intensity. Badu certainly made her mark creating this beutifull piece of music Rating: - A decade-defining knockout; just when you think your Top Ten Albums Of All Time list is impenetrableI was late to discover Erykah, being a late-bloomer with "neo-soul" and all. I finally picked up her debut from the library recently and finally figured out what the appeal is. I was so hooked on that album that I was not terribly excited to move on to "Mama's Gun". But now that I have, I'm not sure I can go back. And it makes me very excited/nervous about her upcoming album, because "Mama's Gun" is UNREAL! First of all, the CD is packed to its full limit (77 minutes). Now how rare is it that an album is this long, yet is also a total stunner for that entire duration? The only other one I can think of is Teena Marie's 2004 "La Dona". Also, "Mama's Gun" isn't really even "neo-soul" at all (the first one kind of is). What ... Read More: |
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