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100
Lyrically, musically, technically, Badu wipes the floor with all comers. The hippy chicks, with their broad emotional agenda, are bossing the world right now, and this fantastic album by the original and best of the bunch shows you why.
94
She made a record that wore its awareness of the larger traumas and challenges that complicate human intimacy on its sleeves. It was music for the revolution that wasn’t televised.
94
Structurally, Mama’s Gun functions a bit like a good arthouse film, a series of aesthetically luxurious long takes which are strung together, illustrating at times disparate moods and bouncing off and inflecting each other with repeat plays.
80
The results are consistently tasteful, which only helps to prove once again that Badu is miles ahead of the rest.
10y
80
It sounds like her lowest moment as a woman, but so far it's her zenith as an artist.
80
With Mama’s Gun, Badu reintroduces her fresh hybrid of organic grooves, live instrumentation and the latest recording technology.
80
Touching on everything from homelessness to her paramours, Badu alternately slinks and storms through songs, pausing for a meditative ballad only to fire up for a funky duet with Stephen Marley. Even at its most lovers-rockish, the disc is fiercely percussive. The rise continues.
67
A 70s soul homage featuring live musicians and a smooth funk sound that wouldn’t be out of place on a CTI record, Mama's Gun is the female companion to D’Angelo's ”Voodoo,” with which it shares a reactionary pseudo- sophistication that too often substitutes good taste for good tunes.
60
Baduizm was a remarkable starting point... It may have been too much to expect her to emulate it, but there's not quite enough here.
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1y
André 3000 and Badu are the most talented artists of all time- I swear to God their child has superpowers or some shit. I hope he's drinking enough water and constantly taking nice, reflective walks and smiling every single damn day.
Mama's Gun is an album you would play to all your older folks without you feeling embarrassed
I've been very eager to hear Erykah Badu's sophomore album, especially when I heard about this being described as a female companion to Voodoo by D'Angelo, one of the defining albums in the genre which I quite enjoy.
I can understand why some compare this to Voodoo, mainly due to the aesthetic and vibes but this album stands on its own two feet thanks to Erykah's musical identity has a lot going for it. Much like it's companion, Mama's Gun just sounds smooth like butter.
Production-wise, some ... read more
her voice and lyrics are nice. the instruments are nice. However everything just feels a bit miscellaneous and without direction. kind of a waste of a great opportunity. It was still nice though.
This record has such lush production alongside such unique vocal delivery from badu not to mention the seem less song transitions everything about this album is amazing
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Track List
| 1 | Penitentiary Philosophy 6:09 | 93 |
| 2 | Didn't Cha Know 3:58 | 96 |
| 3 | My Life 3:59 | 92 |
| 4 | ... & On 3:34 | 93 |
| 5 | Cleva 3:45 | 90 |
| 6 | Hey Sugah 0:51 | 88 |
| 7 | Booty 4:04 | 87 |
| 8 | Kiss Me On My Neck (Hesi) 5:34 | 91 |
| 9 | A.D. 2000 4:51 | 92 |
| 10 | Orange Moon 7:10 | 94 |
| 11 | In Love With You 5:21 feat. Stephen Marley | 92 |
| 12 | Bag Lady 5:48 | 92 |
| 13 | Time's a Wastin' 6:40 | 89 |
| 14 | Green Eyes 10:04 | 95 |
Total Length: 1 hour, 11 minutes
