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Mama's Gun

by Erykah Badu

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Overall Rating: 2.9832 Mama's Gun is ranked overall as 2.9832 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.9904 Mama's Gun has an avg. critic score of 2.9904 out of 4 stars

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Rolling Stone

Mama's Gun finds Erykah disrobing emotionally, shedding the self-righteousness and goddess posture that marked Baduizm. The new Erykah isn't teaching, she's dealing with regular-person baggage. ...more

PopMatters

A definite work of art, destined to remain in heavy rotation for some time to come. ...more

All Music Guide

Since the arrival of Erykah Badu onto the neo-soul scene back in 1997 withBaduizm, commercial music stood up and took notice with an onslaught of similar artists reaching comparable peaks of mainstream success. ...more

Yahoo! Music

'Mama's Gun', so called because it's the weapon "taking out the demons in my range" is Badu 's antidote to the pressures of enormous and sudden fame that she experienced after the release of her fantastic debut album 'Baduizm' four years ago. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

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. It's soul music for people who -- wrongly -- think rap is dumb and contemporary R&B is simplistic. ...more

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The Daily Vault Album Reviews

Erykah Badu is an artist who continues to impress me.Admittedly, I haven't followed r&b as closely as I probably should, so I won't claim to have a superior knowledge of the scene as it is today. But I do like what Badu is doing with...read the complete review at The Daily Vault Album Reviews

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Slant Magazine

Erykah Badu's second studio albumMama's Gunopens with the old-school funk of "Penitentiary Philosophy." Badu declares her status as "a warrior princess," urging us all to get along and "take all the funky tones and make up a funky song." The album...read the complete review at Slant Magazine

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Mojo

Her sinuous, Lady Dayish voice sets her apart. Unfortunately, it's not to be heard in full effect until about a third of the way through Mama's Gun.....read the complete review at Mojo

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The Austin Chronicle

Revisionists paint the Seventies as a golden epoch, coloring in today's blank technological age with its supposed vintage-store hues. That shit's jive ... truth is, the Seventies were brown -- gas was scarce, travel landed you in foreign jails, and...read the complete review at The Austin Chronicle

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The A.V. Club

From its audacious title through its final note, Erykah Badu's 1997 debut Baduizm announced the arrival of a new force in contemporary R&B. Influenced by hip-hop in attitude but leaning heavily on older traditions, the album found Badu stepping...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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