Big Bad Mama (Foxy Brown song) explained

Big Bad Mama
Cover:Big Bad Mamma.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Foxy Brown featuring Dru Hill
Album:Ill Na Na and Def Jam's How to Be a Player soundtrack
Released:July 28, 1997
Recorded:1996
Genre:Hip hop
Length:3:53
Label:Def Jam
Producer:Trackmasters
Chronology:Foxy Brown
Prev Title:I'll Be
Prev Year:1997
Next Title:Firm Biz
Next Year:1997

"Big Bad Mama" is a single by American rapper Foxy Brown and American R&B group Dru Hill from the soundtrack to the 1997 film, How to Be a Player. The song also appeared on the European re-issue of Foxy Brown's debut album, Ill Na Na.

The song, which was produced by the Trackmasters and based on an interpolation of Carl Carlton's "She's a Bad Mama Jama", became a semi-successful hit, peaking at 53 on the Billboard Hot 100, Foxy's second highest charting single as a solo artist. The single was released with the then recently reunited EPMD's "Never Seen Before" as the B-side.

Single track listing

A side

  1. "Big Bad Mama" (LP version)
  2. "Big Bad Mama" (instrumental)

B side

  1. "Never Seen Before" (LP version)
  2. "Never Seen Before" (LP instrumental)
  3. "Never Seen Before" (remix)

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart (1997) Position
UK Urban (Music Week)[2] 29
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[3] 65

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Euro Chart Hot 100. Music & Media. 13. October 18, 1997. June 21, 2018.
  2. The Urban Top 40 Tracks Of 1997. Music Week. January 10, 1998. 6. August 6, 2023.
  3. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 1997. Billboard. October 20, 2021. August 3, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150803035318/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/1997/hot-r-b-hip-hop-songs. live.