Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape
Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape | ||||
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Studio album by Meshell Ndegeocello | ||||
Released | June 4, 2002 | |||
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Label | Maverick | |||
Producer | Allen Cato, Meshell Ndegeocello | |||
Meshell Ndegeocello chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | (82/100)[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | |
The A.V. Club | (favorable)[3] |
Robert Christgau | A−[4] |
Entertainment Weekly | A[5] |
Metro Weekly | (favorable)[6] |
Rolling Stone | |
Slant | |
Spin | (8/10)[1] |
Vibe | |
Yahoo! Music | (favorable)[10] |
Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape is an album by Meshell Ndegeocello. It was released on June 4, 2002 on Maverick Records. The album peaked at #67 on the Billboard Top 200 list that year, and was nominated for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 2003 Grammy Awards. The album also peaked at #21 on the Billboard R&B Album chart and #67 on Billboard's Top Internet Albums chart.
Two singles were released from the LP. The remixed version of "Pocketbook" charted on Billboard's R&B Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart, for several weeks, also appearing on the R&B Airplay and Sales charts. "Earth" was remixed by Ben Watt and peaked at #14 on Billboard's Dance Music/Maxi Single Sales chart.
"The album pays homage to the power of the word, written and spoken," Meshell Ndegeocello states in the liner notes of the album. It features short clips of spoken word performances by writers, poets and activists such as Angela Davis, Gil-Scott Heron and Etheridge Knight.
Track listing
- "Dead Nigga Blvd., Pt. 1" (Meshell Ndegeocello, Allen Cato) – 3:03
- "Hot Night" (Supa Dave West, Ndegeocello, Talib Kweli, Héctor Lavoe) – 4:32
- "Interlude: Blah Blah Blah, Dyba Dyba Dyba" (Ndegeocello, Cato) – :40
- "Priorities 1-6" (Ndegeocello, Cato) – 3:43
- "Pocketbook" (Ndegeocello) – 4:00
- "Barry Farms" (Ndegeocello) – 5:20
- "Trust" (Ndegeocello) – 5:25
- "Akel Dama (Field of Blood)" (Ndegeocello, Michael Cain) – 7:27
- "Earth" (Ndegeocello, Cato) – 5:14
- "Better By the Pound" (George Clinton, Grace Cook) – 5:23
- "Criterion" (Ndegeocello) – 4:27
- "GOD.FEAR.MONEY" (Ndegeocello) – 3:31
- "Jabril" (Ndegeocello) – 6:06
- "Dead Nigga Blvd., Pt. 2" (Ndegeocello, Cato) – 3:13
- "Interlude: 6 Legged Griot Trio (Weariness)" (Ndegeocello) – 4:53
- "Pocketbook (Rockwilder and Missy Elliott Remix)" (Ndegeocello, Missy Elliott, Dana Stinson, Reggie Noble) – 3:59
Personnel
Musicians
- Meshell Ndegeocello – vocals, bass guitar, additional instruments ("everything else")
- Allen Cato – guitar, drum programming, vocal arrangement (#2, 9)
- Federico González Peña – Rhodes electric piano (#7), piano (#9, 13, 15)
- Michael Cain – piano (#8)
- Grégoire Maret – harmonica (#9, 13)
- Jacques Schwarz-Bart – tenor saxophone (#10, 11, 13, 15)
- Marcus Miller – bass clarinet and fretless bass (#13)
- Michael Hampton – electric guitar (#14)
- Oliver Gene Lake Jr. – drums (#9, 11-13, 15)
- Kiggo Wellman – drums (#6)
- Sean Rickman – drums (#10)
- Alfredo Mojica – percussion (#7, 9-11, 13)
- Supa Dave West – track programming (#2)
- Talib Kweli – rapper (#2)
- Lalah Hathaway – vocals (#9, 13), vocal arrangement (#9)
- Caron Wheeler – vocals (#7, 9, 11)
- Redman – rapper (#16)
- Tweet – vocals (#16)
- Spoken words by Dick Gregory (#1), Angela Davis (#2), Gil Scott-Heron (#8), Countee Cullen (#8), Etheridge Knight (#8, 15), Claude McKay (#15), June Jordan (#15)
Production
- Produced by Allen Cato and Meshell Ndegeocello
- "Hot Night" (#2) co-produced by Supa Dave West
- "Pocketbook" remix (#16) produced by Rockwilder and Missy Elliott
- Recorded by Eric Dyba and Allen Cato
- Additional post production editing by Rail Jon Rogut
- Mixed by Bob Power
- Assisting and additional mixing by Andrew Brooks
- Mastering by Tom Coyne
- Art direction and design by Frank Maddocks
- Photography by David Fenton
- A&R by Damu Mtume and Danny Strick
References
- 1 2 Critic reviews at Metacritic
- ↑ Allmusic review
- ↑ The A.V. Club review
- ↑ Robert Christgau review
- ↑ Entertainment Weekly review
- ↑ Metro Weekly review
- ↑ Rolling Stone review at the Wayback Machine (archived September 30, 2007)
- ↑ Slant review
- ↑ Vibe review
- ↑ Yahoo! Music review at the Wayback Machine (archived February 11, 2007)