Episode 14: Bosco on Erykah Badu’s “Mama’s Gun” (2000)

Episode notes

The album: Erykah Badu: Mama’s Gun (Motown, 2000)

Bosco was an artist that Morgan knew, from jump, she wanted to get on the show. A Savannah native who’s now an L.A. transplant (by way of Atlanta), Bosco’s been steady climbing the ranks in the music game and has had a breakout year in 2017, especially wiht the release of her full-length, b.

For her pick, Bosco wanted to revisit one of the formative albums that shaped her imagination as a kid: Erykah Badu’s sophomore album: Mama’s Gun. If Baduizm helped put Badu on the map, Mama’s Gun – which was produced by the same Soulquarian team also working on D’Angelo’s Voodoo and Common’s Like Water For Chocolate – firmly established her as the preeminent queen of what was then called neo-soul and these days seems better described as future soul. Our conversation touched on many aspects of how Badu and her sound landed on people’s ears back at the turn of the century and how it continues to reverberate today.

More on Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun

• Daphne Brook’s review in Pitchfork.
• Kieran Yates’ “My Favorite Album” review in The Guardian. 
• Mensah Demary’s “Liner Notes” breakdown of the album in The Toast.

More on Bosco

• Alexander Aplerku’s profile in Noisey.
• Julianne Shepherd’s profile in The Muse.
• Website | Soundcloud | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Show Tracklisting (all songs from Mama’s Gun unless indicated otherwise):

• ”Bag Lady”
• Bosco: b. “Castles”
• Erykah Badu: Baduizm “Apple Tree”
• ”Other Side Of The Game”
• The Roots: Things Fall Apart “You’ve Got Me ft. Erykah Badu and Jill Scott Live”
• Res: How I Do “How I Do”
• ”Cleva”
• SZA: Ctrl “Normal Girl”
• ”Time’s A Wastin”
• ”…&On”
• ”Didn’t Cha Know”
• Bosco: b. “Free”
• ”Penitentiary Philosophy”
• ”A.D. 2000”
• ”Orange Tree”
• …&On
• ”Kiss Me ON My Neck”
• ”Booty”
• ”Green Eyes”
• ”In Love With You Ft. Stephen Marley”
• Erykah Badu: “I’ve Been Going Through it All”
• ”Orange Tree”
• …&On
• ”Kiss Me ON My Neck”
• ”Booty”
• ”Green Eyes”
• ”In Love With You Ft. Stephen Marley”
• Erykah Badu: Erykah Badu “Amerykahn Promise”

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