Meshell Ndegeocello performing in Washington, . Background information. Named Michelle Lynn Johnson at birth, Ndegeocello adopted her surname at the age of 17, which she says means "free like a bird" in Swahili. Early pressings of Plantation Lullabies were affixed with stickers to help pronounce her name Career. In 2016 at Cosmopolite Scene in Oslo. Comfort Woman (2003). The Spirit Music Jamia: Dance of the Infidel (2005).
It was released on June 4, 2002 on Maverick Records. The album peaked at 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 on the Billboard R&B Album chart and on Billboard's Top Internet Albums chart.
Myron & the Works (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello & Robert Glasper).
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While her fifth disc may not alleviate the latter, the former should be back around in droves. The attempts at pop songcraft heard on her earlier albums and best represented with the minor hit "If That's Your Boyfriend" seem long gone
For Meshell Ndegeocello, satisfaction is not only the death of desire but the death of creation. Back in 1996, the self-proclaimed revolutionary soul singer claimed she would never record again but, like every good revolutionary, Ndegeocello knows that one’s struggle rarely ends in his or her lifetime. As always, her revolution goes hand-in-hand with personal (and sexual) revelation.
Arranged By [Vocal Arrangement] – Cato Bass – B.*Programmed By [Track Programming] – Supa Dave WestRap [Master Of Ceremonies] – Talib KweliVoice [Wisdom] – Angela DavisWritten-By – Hector Lavoe, Meshell*, Supa Dave West, Talib Kweli
Drum Programming – Cato , B.*Featuring [Father Soul From "Comment #1"] – Gil Scott-HeronFeaturing [Father Soul From "Heritage"] – Countee CullenFeaturing [Father Soul From "The Idea Of Ancestry"] – Etheridge KnightInstruments [Everything Else] – B.*Piano [Ancestral Worship (Piano)] – Michael CainWritten-By – Meshell*, Michael Cain
Band – The Brethren Drums – Oliver Gene Lake*Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*Piano – Federico Gonzalez Peña*Tenor Saxophone – Jacques Schwarz-BartVoice [Father Soul From "Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminally Insane"] – Etheridge KnightVoice [Father Soul From "If We Must Die"] – Claude McKayVoice [Mother Soul From "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King Jr."] – June JordanWritten-By – Meshell*
Tracks 5 to 7, 11 to 13, 18 Revolutionary Jazz Giant Music BMI
Track 8 Revolutionary Jazz Giant Music/Native Drum Music BMI
Track 10 Bridgeport Music, Inc. BMI
Track 19 Revolutionary Jazz Giant Music/Mass Confusion/WB Music Corp. ASCAP/Dayna's Day Music Publishing/Warner-Tamerlane Music Publishing Co. BMI/Funky Noble Productions Inc./WB Music Corp. ASCAP
Produced for 3000 E. Zion (Cato) and for Humility Profits (Meshell Suhaila Bashir) except track 19 produced for F-5 Productions (Rockwilder), for Mass Confusion Productions, Inc. (Missy Elliott) and for 3000 E. Zion (Cato)
Recorded at Hyde Street Studios in the Tenderloin (S.F.) Additional post-production editing at Sound City in the Land of Sunshine & Lies (L.A.) Mixed at Sony Music Studio in Babylon (NYC) Mastered at Sterling Sound in Babylon (NYC)
Talib Kweli appears courtesy of Rawkus Records Marcus Miller appears courtesy of 3 Deuces Records Lalah Hathaway appears courtesy of Mesa Blue Moon Records Redman appears courtesy of Def Jam Records Tweet appears courtesy of Goldmind/Elektra/EEG