Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape

Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape
Studio album by Me'shell Ndegeocello
Released	June 4, 2002
Genre	R&B, neo soul, hip hop
Label	Maverick
Producer	Me'shell Ndegeocello, Allen Cato, Missy Elliott, Rockwilder, Supa Dave West
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Me'shell Ndegeocello chronology
Bitter (1999) Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (2002) Comfort Woman (2003)

Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape is an album by Me'shell Ndegeocello. It was released June 4, 2002 on Maverick Records. The album peaked at #67 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 #21 on Billboard's R&B Album chart and #67 on Billboard's Top Internet Albums chart.

Two singles were released from the LP. A remixed version of "Pocketbook" charted on Billboard's R&B Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart, for several weeks, also garnering chart action on the R&B Airplay and Sales charts. "Earth" was remixed by Ben Watt and peaked at #14 on Billboard's Dance Music/Maxi Single Sales chart.

The album contains short clips of spoken word performances by writers and artists such as Angela Davis, Gil-Scott Heron, and Etheridge Knight.

Track listing

1. "Dead Nigga Blvd., Pt. 1" (Me'shell Ndegeocello, Allen Cato) – 3:03
2. "Hot Night" (Supa Dave West, Ndegeocello, Talib Kweli, Héctor Lavoe) – 4:32
3. "Interlude: Blah Blah Blah, Dyba Dyba Dyba" (Ndegeocello, Cato) – :40
4. "Priorities 1-6" (Ndegeocello, Cato) – 3:43
5. "Pocketbook" (Ndegeocello) – 4:00
6. "Barry Farms" (Ndegeocello) – 5:20
7. "Trust" (Ndegeocello) – 5:25
8. "Akel Dama (Field of Blood)" (Ndegeocello, Michael Cain) – 7:27
9. "Earth" (Ndegeocello, Cato) – 5:14
10. "Better By the Pound" (George Clinton, Grace Cook) – 5:23
11. "Criterion" (Ndegeocello) – 4:27
12. "GOD.FEAR.MONEY" (Ndegeocello) – 3:31
13. "Jabril" (Ndegeocello) – 6:06
14. "Dead Nigga Blvd., Pt. 2" (Ndegeocello, Cato) – 3:13
15. "Interlude: 6 Legged Griot Trio (Weariness)" (Ndegeocello) – 4:53
16. "Pocketbook (Rockwilder and Missy Elliot Remix)" (Ndegeocello, Missy Elliott, Dana Stinson, Reggie Noble) – 3:59

Personnel

• Me'shell Ndegeocello – vocals, bass, additional instruments
• Gregoire Maret – harmonica
• Marcus Miller – bass clarinet, fretless bass
• Michael Hampton – guitar
• Jacques Schwarz-Bart – tenor saxophone
• Michael Cain – piano
• Federico Gonzalez Peña – piano
• Oliver Gene Lake Jr. – drums
• Kiggo Wellman – drums
• Sean Rickman – drums
• Alfredo Mojica – percussion
• Talib Kweli – rapper
• Redman – rapper
• Tweet – vocals
• Lalah Hathaway – vocals, vocal arrangement
• Caron Wheeler – vocals
• Allen Cato – guitar, vocals, producer, engineer, vocal arrangement, drum programming
• Missy Elliott – producer
• Rockwilder – producer
• Supa Dave West – producer, track programmer
• Rail Jon Rogut – production editing
• Tom Coyne – mastering
• Andrew Brooks – engineer
• Eric Dyba – engineer
• Bob Power – mixing
• David Fenton – photography
• Frank Maddocks – art direction, design
• Damu Mtume – A&R
• Danny Strick – A&R

External links

• Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape at Metacritic
• Release history at Discogs