Legacy! Legacy!

{{Infobox album

| name = Legacy! Legacy!

| type = studio

| artist = Jamila Woods

| cover = Jamila Woods Legacy Legacy.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|2019|05|10}}

| recorded =

| studio = {{hlist|Audiotree|SoundScape (Chicago)}}

| genre = {{hlist|R&B|neo soul|funk|electro-soul|hip hop}}

| length = {{duration|m=49|s=02}}

| label = Jagjaguwar

| producer = {{hlist|Slot-A|Oddcouple|Peter Cottontale|Ralph Gene|Justin Canavan|Aminata Burton|Jamila Woods|Stephon "Mooch" Brown|Jasmin Charles|Nico Segal}}

| prev_title = Heavn

| prev_year = 2016

| next_title = Water Made Us

| next_year = 2023

}}

{{Music ratings

| ADM = 8.4/10{{cite web|url=http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/9881/Jamila-Woods-Legacy-Legacy.aspx|title=Legacy! Legacy! by Jamila Woods reviews|publisher=AnyDecentMusic?|accessdate=May 31, 2019}}

| MC = 89/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/legacy!-legacy!/jamila-woods|title=LEGACY! LEGACY! by Jamila Woods Reviews and Tracks|publisher=Metacritic|accessdate=May 31, 2019}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/legacy%21-legacy%21-mw0003250349|title=LEGACY! LEGACY! – Jamila Woods|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=May 31, 2019|last=Kellman|first=Andy}}

| rev2 = And It Don't Stop

| rev2Score = B+{{cite web|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=November 13, 2019|url=https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/consumer-guide-november-2019|title=Consumer Guide: November, 2019|work=And It Don't Stop|publisher=Substack|accessdate=July 18, 2020|url-access=subscription}}

| rev3 = Chicago Tribune

| rev3Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/sc-ent-jamila-woods-legacy-album-review-0510-story.html|title=Jamila Woods channels the greats to build her legacy|work=Chicago Tribune|date=May 10, 2019|accessdate=May 31, 2019|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot}}

| rev4 = Exclaim!

| rev4Score = 8/10{{cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/jamila_woods-legacy_legacy|title=Jamila Woods: LEGACY! LEGACY!|work=Exclaim!|date=May 7, 2019|accessdate=May 31, 2019|last=Patrick|first=Ryan B.}}

| rev5 = Financial Times

| rev5Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/d93a61f0-70ca-11e9-bbfb-5c68069fbd15|title=Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! — an exploration of black American identity|work=Financial Times|date=May 10, 2019|accessdate=May 31, 2019|last=Hunter-Tilney|first=Ludovic|url-access=subscription}}

| rev6 = The Guardian

| rev6Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/10/jamila-woods-legacy-legacy-review-jagjaguwar|title=Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! review – joyful, loving testimony to black artists|work=The Guardian|date=May 10, 2019|accessdate=May 31, 2019|last=Cliff|first=Aimee}}

| rev7 = NME

| rev7Score = {{rating|5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/jamila-woods-legacy-legacy-review-2486372|title=Jamila Woods – 'LEGACY! LEGACY!' review|work=NME|date=May 10, 2019|accessdate=November 28, 2019|last=Balram|first=Dhruva}}

| rev8 = Pitchfork

| rev8Score = 8.5/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jamila-woods-legacy-legacy/|title=Jamila Woods: LEGACY! LEGACY!|work=Pitchfork|date=May 15, 2019|accessdate=May 31, 2019|last=Effinger|first=Shannon J.}}

| rev9 = Rolling Stone

| rev9Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/review-the-soul-rap-revelation-of-jamila-woods-legacy-legacy-832954/|title=Review: The Soul-Rap Revelation of Jamila Woods' 'Legacy! Legacy!'|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=May 9, 2019|accessdate=May 31, 2019|last=Hermes|first=Will|author-link=Will Hermes}}

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10Score = 9/10{{cite journal|title=Jamila Woods: LEGACY! LEGACY!|journal=Uncut|issue=265|date=June 2019|last=Anderson|first=Jason|page=37}}

}}

Legacy! Legacy! is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter and poet Jamila Woods, released on May 10, 2019, by Jagjaguwar.{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/jamila-woods-announces-new-album-legacy-legacy-shares-new-song-listen/|title=Jamila Woods Announces New Album LEGACY! LEGACY!, Shares New Song: Listen|work=Pitchfork|date=February 5, 2019|accessdate=February 6, 2019|last=Blais-Billie|first=Braudie}} Woods supported the album with her own concert tour, along with performing as the opening act for the rapper Common's tour in 2019 and the singer Raphael Saadiq's 2020 Jimmy Lee Tour.{{cite web|last=Sacher|first=Andrew|date=October 13, 2019|url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/jamila-woods-opening-raphael-saadiqs-2020-tour/|title=Jamila Woods opening Raphael Saadiq's 2020 tour|website=Brooklyn Vegan|accessdate=October 16, 2020}}

Critical reception

The album was met with widespread critical acclaim. Reviewing for AllMusic, Andy Kellman hailed it as a "galvanizing declaration of pride, support, and discontent", as well as a "modern R&B album" with mostly "electro-soul" and "chunky hip hop" productions. Ann-Derrick Gaillot from The Nation credited Woods's neo soul style for "captur[ing] the power of black pride" and achieving a novel musical accomplishment, "in which she melds disparate influences and pushes her vocal-layering techniques to build her dynamic neo-soul sound".{{cite magazine|last=Gaillot|first=Ann-Derrick|date=May 9, 2019|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/jamila-woods-legacy-legacy-album-review/|title=Jamila Woods's Neo-Soul Captures the Power of Black Pride|magazine=The Nation|accessdate=July 19, 2020}} In his "Consumer Guide" column, Robert Christgau highlighted musical qualities on the songs "Miles", "Muddy", "Zora", and "Basquiat" while saying of the album as a whole: "This poetry-with-sophistofunk tribute to a sharp selection of 20th-century African-American art heroes plus Frida Kahlo will always be a tad too atmospheric and impressionistic to suit me. But it does both flow and signify."

In a year-end essay for Slate, Ann Powers cited Legacy! Legacy! as one of her favorite albums from 2019 and proof that the format is not dead but rather undergoing a "metamorphosis". She added that concept albums had reemerged through the culturally-relevant autobiographical narratives of artists such as Woods, who created a tribute to her ancestors "that spoke volumes about black life today".{{cite magazine|last=Powers|first=Ann|authorlink=Ann Powers|date=December 17, 2019|url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/music-club-2019-concept-albums-not-dead.html|title=The album is evolving.|magazine=Slate|accessdate=September 15, 2020}}

Accolades

class="sortable wikitable" \|+Accolades for Legacy! Legacy!
Publication ! List ! Rank ! {{abbr\|Ref.\|Reference}}
scope="row"\|Exclaim! \| Exclaim!'s 10 Best Soul, Funk and World Albums of 2019 \| style="text-align:center;" \|1 \| style="text-align:center;" \|{{cite web\|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/exclaim_s_10_best_soul_funk_and_world_albums_of_2019\|title=Exclaim!'s 10 Best Soul, Funk and World Albums of 2019 {{!}} Exclaim!\|website=exclaim.ca\|language=en\|access-date=January 20, 2021}}
scope="row" rowspan=2\|Pitchfork \| The 50 Best Albums of 2019 \| style="text-align:center;" \|11 \| style="text-align:center;" \|{{cite web\|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2019/\|title=The 50 Best Albums of 2019 {{!}} Pitchfork Media\|website=pitchfork.com\|date=10 December 2019 \|language=en\|access-date=January 20, 2021}}
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s \| style="text-align:center;" \|181 \| style="text-align:center;" \|{{cite web\|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-2010s/\|title=The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s {{!}} Pitchfork Media\|website=pitchfork.com\|date=8 October 2019 \|language=en\|access-date=January 20, 2021}}
scope="row"\|Stereogum \| The 50 Best Albums of 2019 \| style="text-align:center;" \|37 \| style="text-align:center;" \|{{Cite web\|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2066082/best-albums-2019/lists/year-in-review/2019-in-review/\|title=The 50 Best Albums of 2019 {{!}} Stereogum\|website=stereogum.com\|date=December 3, 2019\|access-date=May 21, 2021}}
scope="row"\|Under the Radar \| Under the Radar's Top 100 Albums of 2019 \| style="text-align:center;" \|82 \| style="text-align:center;" \|{{cite web\|url=http://www.undertheradarmag.com/lists/under_the_radars_top_100_albums_of_2019_part_2/\|title=Under the Radar's Top 100 Albums of 2019 (Part 2) {{!}} Under the Radar\|website=undertheradarmag.com\|language=en\|access-date=January 20, 2021}}

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|+Accolades for Legacy! Legacy!

Publication

! List

! Rank

! {{abbr|Ref.|Reference}}

scope="row"|Exclaim!

| Exclaim!'s 10 Best Soul, Funk and World Albums of 2019

| style="text-align:center;" |1

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/exclaim_s_10_best_soul_funk_and_world_albums_of_2019|title=Exclaim!'s 10 Best Soul, Funk and World Albums of 2019 {{!}} Exclaim!|website=exclaim.ca|language=en|access-date=January 20, 2021}}

scope="row" rowspan=2|Pitchfork

| The 50 Best Albums of 2019

| style="text-align:center;" |11

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2019/|title=The 50 Best Albums of 2019 {{!}} Pitchfork Media|website=pitchfork.com|date=10 December 2019 |language=en|access-date=January 20, 2021}}

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s

| style="text-align:center;" |181

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-2010s/|title=The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s {{!}} Pitchfork Media|website=pitchfork.com|date=8 October 2019 |language=en|access-date=January 20, 2021}}

scope="row"|Stereogum

| The 50 Best Albums of 2019

| style="text-align:center;" |37

| style="text-align:center;" |{{Cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2066082/best-albums-2019/lists/year-in-review/2019-in-review/|title=The 50 Best Albums of 2019 {{!}} Stereogum|website=stereogum.com|date=December 3, 2019|access-date=May 21, 2021}}

scope="row"|Under the Radar

| Under the Radar's Top 100 Albums of 2019

| style="text-align:center;" |82

| style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web|url=http://www.undertheradarmag.com/lists/under_the_radars_top_100_albums_of_2019_part_2/|title=Under the Radar's Top 100 Albums of 2019 (Part 2) {{!}} Under the Radar|website=undertheradarmag.com|language=en|access-date=January 20, 2021}}

Track listing

{{track listing

| all_writing = Jamila Woods, except where noted

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Betty

| extra1 = Oddcouple

| length1 = 3:11

| title2 = Zora

| extra2 = Slot-A

| length2 = 3:06

| title3 = Giovanni

| extra3 = {{hlist|Slot-A|Ralph Gene{{ref|a|[a]}}|Justin Canavan{{ref|a|[a]}}|Aminata Burton{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| length3 = 4:48

| title4 = Sonia

| note4 = featuring Nitty Scott

| writer4 = {{hlist|Woods|Nitzia Scott}}

| extra4 = Slot-A

| length4 = 4:21

| title5 = Frida

| extra5 = Slot-A

| length5 = 2:58

| title6 = Eartha

| extra6 = Peter Cottontale

| length6 = 2:49

| title7 = Miles

| extra7 = Slot-A

| length7 = 3:08

| title8 = Muddy

| extra8 = Slot-A

| length8 = 3:11

| title9 = Basquiat

| note9 = featuring Saba

| writer9 = {{hlist|Woods|Tahj Chandler}}

| extra9 = {{hlist|Slot-A|Woods{{ref|a|[a]}}|Canavan{{ref|a|[a]}}|Burton{{ref|a|[a]}}|Stephon "Mooch" Brown{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| length9 = 6:45

| title10 = Sun Ra

| note10 = featuring theMIND and Jasminfire

| writer10 = {{hlist|Woods|Zarif Omer}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|Slot-A|Canavan{{ref|a|[a]}}|Jasmin Charles{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| length10 = 3:26

| title11 = Octavia

| extra11 = Slot-A

| length11 = 3:11

| title12 = Baldwin

| note12 = featuring Nico Segal

| extra12 = {{hlist|Slot-A|Segal{{ref|a|[a]}}}}

| length12 = 3:53

| title13 = Betty (For Boogie)

| extra13 = Slot-A

| length13 = 4:15

| total_length = 49:02

}}

;Track notes

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Charts

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!scope="col"| Chart (2019)

!scope="col"| Peak
position

{{Album chart|UKR&B|20|date=20190517|accessdate=May 31, 2019|rowheader=true}}

{{Album chart|BillboardHeatseekers|6|artist=Jamila Woods|accessdate=May 31, 2019|rowheader=true}}

{{Album chart|BillboardIndependent|26|artist=Jamila Woods|accessdate=May 31, 2019|rowheader=true}}

References

Category:2019 albums

Category:Jamila Woods albums

Category:Jagjaguwar albums