Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work

Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape is Meshell Ndegeocello's fourth album and was released on 4 June 2002 on Maverick Records. Her third album, Bitter, sold poorly, and the record company now wanted a record that sounded more like a black record. She worked with, among others, Talib Kweli, Missy Elliott and Tweet, and with her own band, the Conscientious Objectors. Recording in the summer of 2001 took about a month, at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco. She took the mixtapes of her youth as her model.

The album blends hip hop, funk, soul, jazz and go-go. Between the tracks are excerpts from speeches by Angela Davis and Gil Scott-Heron. The lyrics deal with consumption, revolution, religion and love between women. Because of lyrics that were linked to 9/11, the release was postponed several times. Critics were very positive, and the album received a Grammy nomination.

Listening

Track list

1. 1Dead Nigga Blvd., Pt. 13:04Apple Music ↗
2. 2Hot Night4:32Apple Music ↗
3. 3Interlude: Blah Blah Blah, Dyba Dyba Dyba0:40Apple Music ↗
4. 4Priorities 1-63:43Apple Music ↗
5. 5Pocketbook4:00Apple Music ↗
6. 6Berry Farms5:21Apple Music ↗
7. 7Trust5:26Apple Music ↗
8. 8Akel Dama (Field of Blood)7:27Apple Music ↗
9. 9Earth5:14Apple Music ↗
10. 10Better By the Pound5:24Apple Music ↗
11. 11Criterion4:28Apple Music ↗
12. 12God.Fear.Money3:29Apple Music ↗
13. 13Jabril6:06Apple Music ↗
14. 14Dead Nigga Blvd., Pt. 23:13Apple Music ↗
15. 15Interlude: 6 Legged Griot Trio (Weariness)4:54Apple Music ↗
16. 16Pocketbook (Rockwilder And Missy Elliott Remix)3:00Apple Music ↗

30-second previews via Apple Music. Listen to the whole album on Apple Music ↗