"She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)" | ||||
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Single by Carl Carlton | ||||
B-side | "This Feeling's Rated X-tra" | |||
Released | August 1981 | |||
Format | 7" Single | |||
Genre | R&B, soul, funk | |||
Length | 4:32 | |||
Label | 20th Century | |||
Writer(s) | Leon Haywood | |||
Carl Carlton singles chronology | ||||
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"She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)" is a single by Carl Carlton. The song was written by Leon Haywood and became a major hit, peaking at #2 on the soul chart and earning Carlton a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male in 1982.
The track peaked at # 22 in the U.S., and became a Gold record. It spent 21 weeks on the American charts, six weeks longer than his bigger hit, "Everlasting Love." It reached # 34 in the UK Singles Chart.
Carlton's subsequent album, Carl Carlton, went gold in 1981. "She's a Bad Mama Jama" has since become a staple of compilation albums and soundtracks and is often sampled in rap music, including Foxy Brown and Dru Hill's Big Bad Mamma.