Erykah Badu "Mama's Gun" (2000)
Badu is another artist with a long musical history, having sung from a
young age and been rapping since she was a teen. She studied
performing arts, recorded a demo and this led to her recording a duet
with neo-soul aritst D'Angelo.
From there Badu's deubt album "Baduizm" was a success but she then took
time off to be with her newborn son to Outkast rapper Andre Benjamin.
The relationship with Benjamin broke down and both parties expressed
this through their music: Outkast's "Miss Jackson" and tracks on Badu's
second album "Mama's Gun".
The sound has a bit of neo-soul going on but it's a bit of an organic,
live-instrument mix of funk, jazz and hip-hop too... not surprising then
that one of Badu's collaborators is ?uestlove whose group the Roots
mines a similar musical vein. Badu's voice is her game changer though. She can to do soul singing and rap, but then on a song like "Green
Eyes" she can switch into a straight-up jazz singer.
The tracks "Orange Moon" and "In Love With You" sounded familiar to me. Good album!
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