Meshell Ndegeocello* – Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape

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Label:

 Maverick – 9 47989-2

Format:
CD , Album

Country:

 US

Released:

Genre:

 Funk / Soul

Style:

 Conscious

Tracklist

1 Dead Nigga Blvd. (Pt. 1)
Bass, Keyboards [Chocolate Spaceship Keys] – B.*
Drum Programming, Guitar – Cato (2)
Voice [Wisdom] – Dick Gregory
Written-By – Meshell*
3:04
2 Hot Night
Arranged By [Vocal Arrangement] – Cato (2)
Bass – B.*
Programmed By [Track Programming] – Supa Dave West
Rap [Master Of Ceremonies] – Talib Kweli
Voice [Wisdom] – Angela Davis
Written-By – Talib Kweli
4:32
3 Interlude: Blah Blah Blah, Dyba Dyba, Dyba
Programmed By – Cato (2)
Written-By – Meshell*
0:40
4 Priorities 1-6
Drum Programming, Arranged By [Vox Arrangement] – Cato (2)
Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Written-By – Meshell*
3:43
5 Pocketbook
Drum Programming, Guitar – Cato (2)
Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Written-By – Meshell*
4:00
6 Barry Farms
Drums – Kiggo Wellman*
Guitar, Drum Programming – Cato (2)
Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Written-By – Meshell*
5:21
7 Trust
Drum Programming, Guitar – Cato (2)
Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Percussion – Alfredo Mojica (4)
Vocals [Beauty & Warmth (Vox)] – Caron Wheeler
Written-By – Meshell*
5:26
8 Akel Dama (Field Of Blood)
Drum Programming – B.*
Featuring [Father Soul From "Comment #1"] – Gil Scott-Heron
Featuring [Father Soul From "Heritage"] – Countee Cullen
Featuring [Father Soul From "The Idea Of Ancestry"] – Etheridge Knight
Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Piano [Ancestral Worship (Piano)] – Michael Cain
Written-By – Michael Cain
7:28
9 Earth
Arranged By [Vox Arrangement] – Lalah Hathaway
Drums – Oliver Gene Lake*
Electric Piano [Starship Rhodes] – Federico Gonzalez Peña*
Guitar, Drum Programming – Cato (2)
Harmonica – Gregoire Maret
Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Percussion – Alfredo Mojica (4)
Voice [Voices From Mother Earth] – Lalah Hathaway
Written-By – Meshell*
5:14
10 Better By The Pound
Arranged By, Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Drums – Sean Rickman
Guitar – Cato (2)
Percussion – Alfredo Mojica (4)
Tenor Saxophone – Jacques Schwarz-Bart
Vocals [Vox Mysticism], Arranged By [Vox Arrangement] – Caron Wheeler
Written-By – G. Cook*
5:24
11 Criterion
Drums – Oliver Gene Lake*
Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Percussion – Alfredo Mojica (4)
Piano [Piano In The Journey] – Federico Gonzalez Peña*
Tenor Saxophone – Jacques Schwarz-Bart
Vocals [Water & Light (Vox)] – Caron Wheeler
Written-By – Meshell*
4:28
12 GOD.FEAR.MONEY
Drums – Oliver Gene Lake*
Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Lead Guitar – Cato (2)
Written-By – Meshell*
3:32
13 Jabril
Band – The Brethren (3)
Bass Clarinet, Bass [Fretless Bass] – Marcus Miller
Drums – Oliver Gene Lake*
Guitar – Cato (2)
Harmonica – Gregoire Maret
Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Percussion – Alfredo Mojica (4)
Tenor Saxophone – Jacques Schwarz-Bart
Vocals [Choir Of Jabril] – Lalah Hathaway
Written-By – Meshell*
6:06
14-16 (no audio)
17 Dead Nigga Blvd. (Pt. 2)
Bass, Keyboards [Chocolate Spaceship Keys] – B.*
Drum Programming, Guitar – Cato (2)
Featuring – Michael Hampton
Guitar [Guitar Sermon] – Kid Funkadelic
Written-By – Meshell*
3:13
18 Interlude: 6 Legged Griot Trio (Weariness)
Band – The Brethren (3)
Drums – Oliver Gene Lake*
Instruments [Everything Else] – B.*
Tenor Saxophone – Jacques Schwarz-Bart
Voice [Father Soul From "Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminally Insane"] – Etheridge Knight
Voice [Father Soul From "If We Must Die"] – Claude McKay
Voice [Mother Soul From "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King Jr."] – June Jordan
Written-By – Meshell*
4:54
19 Pocketbook (Rockwilder And Missy Elliott Remix)
Featuring – Tweet
Remix – Rockwilder
Written-By – Reggie Noble
4:00

Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
  • Distributed By – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
  • Record Company – Warner Music Group
  • Record Company – AOL Time Warner
  • Copyright © – Maverick Recording Company
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Maverick Recording Company
  • Made By – WEA Manufacturing
  • Pressed By – WEA Mfg. Olyphant – Z08253
  • Published By – Revolutionary Jazz Giant Music
  • Published By – Alvie's House
  • Published By – Rugged tz
  • Published By – Penskills
  • Published By – FAF Publishing
  • Published By – Native Drum Music
  • Published By – Bridgeport Music, Inc.
  • Published By – Mass Confusion
  • Published By – WB Music Corp.
  • Published By – Dayna's Day Music Publishing
  • Published By – Warner-Tamerlane Music Publishing Co.
  • Published By – Funky Noble Productions Inc.
  • Produced For – 3000 E. Zion
  • Produced For – Humility Profits
  • Produced For – F-5 Productions
  • Produced For – Mass Confusion Productions, Inc.
  • Recorded At – Hyde Street Studios
  • Edited At – Sound City Studios
  • Mixed At – Sony Music Studios, New York City
  • Mastered At – Sterling Sound

Credits

  • A&R [Maverick A&R istration] – Jennifer Stone (2)
  • A&R [Maverick A&R] – Danny Strick
  • A&R [Warner Bros. A&R istration] – Natalie Preston
  • A&R [Warner Bros. A&R] – Damu Mtume
  • Art Direction, Design – Frank Maddocks
  • Edited By [Additional Post Production Editing] – Rail Jon Rogut*
  • Engineer – Erik Dyba
  • Executive-Producer – Kofi Taha
  • Legal [Legal Representation] – Alexander P. Hartnett
  • Management [Business Management] – Wilson & Associates
  • Management [Publicity] – Luke Burland
  • Mastered By – Tom Coyne
  • Mixed By – Bob Power
  • Mixed By [Assisted By], Engineer [Additional Engineering] – Andrew Brooks*
  • Photography By – Satya (4)
  • Producer – Supa Dave West (tracks: 2)
  • Product Manager – Holly "Make It Happen" Adams*

Notes

There is no enhanced content on the disk, but a "Bonus Content" notice inside the front insert instructs: "Place this CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive, then visit www.meshell.com/cookie and follow instructions to access your exclusive bonus content: live songs, video, B-rolls, s and more."

Tracks 1, 3, 4, 9, 17
Revolutionary Jazz Giant Music/Alvie's House BMI

Track 2
Rugged tz ASCAP/Revolutionary Jazz Giant Music/Penskills BMI/FAF Publishing
Contains a portion of "La Fama" by Hector Levoe, © 1974 FAF Publishing

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

Back cover:
Maverick Recording Company. Manufactured and distributed by Warner Bros. Records Inc. Warner Music Group, an AOL Time Warner company. © ℗ 2002 Maverick Recording Company. Made in U.S.A.
Maverick logo is a trademark of Maverick Recording Company.

CD label:
© ℗ 2002 Maverick Recording Company, manufactured and distributed by Warner Bros. Records Inc. Warner Music Group, an AOL Time Warner company. Made in U.S.A. by WEA Manufacturing.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 093624798927
  • Rights Society: BMI
  • Rights Society (Tracks 2, 19): ASCAP
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): WEA Mfg. Olyphant Z08253 1 47989-2 01 M1S8
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): WEA Mfg. Olyphant Z08253 1 47989-2 01 M1S2
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 3): WEA Mfg. Olyphant Z08253 1 47989-2 01 *M2 S2
  • Matrix / Runout (Variant 4): WEA Mfg. Olyphant Z08253 1 47989-2 01 M1S7
  • Mastering SID Code (Variant 1): ifpi L902
  • Mastering SID Code (Variant 2, 3, 4): ifpi L909
  • Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 2U3Y
  • Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 2U3S
  • Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI 2V2V
  • Mould SID Code (Variant 4): IFPI 2U4T

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Title (Format) Label Cat# Country Year
Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (CD, Album) Maverick 9362-47989-2 Europe 2002
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Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (CD, Album) Maverick WPCR-11119 Japan 2002
New Submission
Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (CDr, Album, Mixtape, Promo) Warner Music Australia RJD80M 50099 80 Australia 2002
New Submission
Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (CD, Album, Mixtape, Promo, Advance) Maverick 2A-47989-B US 2002
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Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (CD, Album, Mixtape) Maverick CDW 47989 Canada 2002

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Reviews

  • mullytron's avatar
    mullytron
    Agreed. Who do we need to get with? 180g pls
    • rockpunkernickel's avatar
      rockpunkernickel
      Yes, way overdue for 2xLP vinyl... maybe MOV will rescue this.
      • catchAgroove's avatar
        catchAgroove
        We need a double vinyl cut of this lp please.
        We need this!!
        • a-parasite's avatar
          a-parasite
          Meshell has many faces. This is my favourite by far.

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