Erykah Badu will start the second leg of her tour to have fun the twenty fifth anniversary of Mama’s Gun on October 3. The run will kick off with a present on the Hollywood Bowl that includes opener Westside Gunn. The anticipated celebration will proceed by means of October and into November and December.
Earlier than the Mama’s Gun anniversary exhibits, Badu went on tour with the Alchemist, with whom she launched “Next to You” in June. These concert events came about throughout North America in August.
Mama’s Gun, initially launched in 2000, stays probably the most influential albums in fashionable music. Badu mirrored on its place within the cultural panorama in a 2021 interview with The FADER. She mentioned: “Yeah, I hear it. It tickles me. I’m thinking, ‘Oh my god, these are my kids. These are what Mama’s Gun spat out.’ They heard it. They internalized it. It’s a language that I thought only I knew.”
In that very same interview, producer Mark Ronson additionally mirrored on the album’s affect. He mentioned: “Mama’s Gun, that is really my favorite album of that whole era, and I know that there’s so many great records that came out of that magic folklore period of Electric Lady and there’s Voodoo and Phrenology and all this stuff. I will stand in front of everybody else, and Mama’s Gun, when I heard it, it just knocked me out in a way that … I think because there were so many other influences in ‘Penitentiary Philosophy’ and the heaviness of it, too, and it did things that not all the records really did.”
Mama’s Gun cemented Badu’s standing as the brand new face of R&B upon its launch. After taking a number of years off to lift her first little one, Badu returned to the studio to document her second album, a lot of which was impressed by love and her relationship along with her then-partner, Andre Benjamin. Leaning right into a extra natural sound with less-elusive lyrics, Badu opted to talk to the state of Black womanhood and the world round her.
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