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Track Listing
1. Dead Nigga Blvd. (Pt. 1)
2. Hot Night
3. Interlude: Blah Blah Blah Dyba Dyba Dyba
4. Priorities 1-6
5. Pocketbook
6. Barry Farms
7. Trust
8. Akel Dama (Field of Blood)
9. Earth
10. Better by the Pound
11. Criterion
12. God.Fear.Money
13. Jabril
14. (Untitled) - (hidden track)
15. (Untitled) - (hidden track)
16. (Untitled) - (hidden track)
17. Dead Nigga Blvd. (Pt. 2) - (featuring Kid Funkadelic)
18. Interlude: 6 Legged Griot Trio (Weariness)
19. Pocketbook - (Rockwilder And Missy Elliott remix, featuring Redman/Tweet)
Album Notes
Contains hidden tracks on track numbers 14, 15, and 16.
Personnel includes: Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Redman, Tweet, Cato, Talib Kweli, Caron Wheeler, Lalah Hathaway, Marcus Miller, Michael Hampton (Kid Funkadelic).
Producers: Cato, Meshell Suhaila Bashir, Supa Dave West.
Recorded at Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco, California.
COOKIE: THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL ALBUM was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary R&B Album.
Me'Shell Ndegeocello's fourth solo outing comes from an artist whose work is nothing short of visionary. Considering that COOKIE was shelved for a period before being released, the set nevertheless sounds as fresh and contemporary as anything currently being pumped out of the urban music scene. Ndegeocello continues her amalgam of bass-driven jazzy R&B, funk, and hip-hop, adding in occasional world music touches (as with the Indian-influenced outro in "Trust").
"Priorities 1-6" smoothly captures a Maxwell vibe, while both "Earth" and "Barry Farms" jam on slinky Prince-like grooves, replete with sexually charged lyrics. As physical as Me'Shell's lyrical focus gets, it holds equal court with social, spiritual, and political statements. In the opening cut, "Dead Nigga Blvd. Pt. 1," she sings, "Just because civil rights is law doesn't mean that we all abide." COOKIE also has an eclectic ensemble of guests. Caron Wheeler lends her soulful voice to the jazzy "Criterion," fellow four-stringer Marcus Miller weighs in on Funkadelic's "Better By The Pound," while the remix of "Pocketbook" boasts a who's who collaboration of heavy hitters including Rockwilder, Tweet, Redman, and Missy Elliot.
Industry Reviews
...Another set of songs that are political and unflinchingly personal, but still manage to entertain....this is one tasty COOKIE. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (06/07/2002)
...Provocative and engaging...
Mojo (12/01/2002)
8 out of 10 - ...still swings for the same musical fences....Hancock harmonies, Afro-Latin rhythms, [and] downtown-hip instrumental work...
Spin (03/01/2002)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Powerful, beautiful, sensual and activist, this is the record Prince keeps trying to make...
Rolling Stone (06/20/2002)
4 discs out of 5 - ...Rich in lyrical and sonic brilliance, COOKIE provides plenty to stimulate both brains and behinds...
Vibe (03/01/2002)
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