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She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)

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Released
  
August 1981

Genre
  
R&B, soul, funk

Label
  
20th Century

Format
  
7" single

Length
  
4:32

B-side
  
"This Feeling's Rated X-tra"

"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 number 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.

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She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked) Wikipedia