My favourite album: Mama's Gun by Erkyah Badu

Guardian and Observer writers are picking their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same. Here, Kieran Yates is gunning for Erykah BaduAs a grown woman, I probably shouldn't still have posters on my bedroom wall but I make an exception for Erykah Badu. The reason why is simple: Mama's Gun. Hip-hop purists may cite Badu's 1997 debut, Baduizm, as her best and that's hardly surprising – it was, after all, the one that defined neo-soul and announced this then 26-year-old...

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