Producers include: Erykah Badu, James Poyser, Jay Dee, Jah Born, Shaun Martin.

Engineers include: Chris Bell, Russell Elevado, Tom Soares.

"Bag Lady" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and for Best R&B Song.

"Didn't Cha Know" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best R&B Song.

Personnel: Erykah Badu (vocals, background vocals); Emma Kummrow, Gregory Teperman, Charles Parker (violin); Peter Nocella (viola); Larry Gold (cello); Roy Hargrove (trumpet); Shaun Martin (keyboards); Ahmir Khalib Thompson (drums); Leonard "Doc" Gibbs (percussion); Geno "Junebugg" Young, Yah Zarah (background vocals).

Audio Mixers: Russell Elevado; Tom Soares; Leslie Brathwaite.

Photographer: Don Thompson .

R&B diva Erykah Badu's long-awaited second studio release finds her incorporating pronounced jazz influences into her history-cognizant mixture of hip-hop and soul. Jazzy touches, from the vibes on "My Life" to the ballad "Orange Moon," with its languid upright bass and bop-schooled piano, abound. Jazz trumpeter extraodinaire Roy Hargrove was responsible for all the horn arrangements on MAMA'S GUN.

"Booty"'s Crusaders-style horns and loose, funky rhythm nod to mid '70s R&B, and the guitar lines on "Bag Lady" could have come off a vintage Marvin Gaye album. With its delicate acoustic guitar textures, lush background vocals, and '70s-style keyboards, "A.D. 2000" occupies a classy middle ground between Sade and HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS-era Joni Mitchell. The album closes with the adventurous, suite-like "Green Eyes." The first section of the song finds Badu crooning in a '30s jazz-blues style over crackles that emulate a scratchy old 78. The second "movement" grows jazzier, led by flute and punctuated by acoustic bass lines and brush-strokes on the drums. The final section bears a more modern R&B feel, with syncopated rhythms and a carefully arranged horn section. Ultimately, Badu's self-description of an "analog girl in a digital world" proves highly apt on MAMA'S GUN.