She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)

{{Infobox song

| name = She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)

| image = Shes a Bad Mama Jama (Shes Built, Shes Stacked) by Carl Carlton US single side-A.png

| alt = side-A label

| caption = Side A of the US single

| type = single

| artist = Carl Carlton

| album = Carl Carlton

| B-side = This Feeling's Rated X-tra

| released = August 1981

| genre = Post-disco{{cite web |url=https://www.billboard.com/photos/7511389/best-funk-songs-of-all-time-dance-music |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401044326/https://www.billboard.com/photos/7511389/best-funk-songs-of-all-time-dance-music |title=The 30 Best Funk Songs Ever |author=Big Gigantic |website=Billboard |publisher=Prometheus Global Media |date=September 20, 2016 |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |access-date=October 4, 2021 |url-status=live}}

| length = 5:52 (album version)
3:56 (single version)

| label = 20th Century

| writer = Leon Haywood

| producer =

| prev_title = This Feeling's Rated X-Tra

| prev_year = 1980

| next_title = I Think It's Gonna Be Alright

| next_year = 1982

}}

"She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)" is a single by Carl Carlton. The song was written by Leon Haywood and became a major R&B hit, earning Carlton a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male[http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1981/1981grammy.htm L.A. Times "The Envelope" awards database], (Accessed August 15, 2006) in 1982. Carlton's subsequent album, Carl Carlton, went gold in 1981. "She's a Bad Mama Jama" has since become a staple of compilation albums and soundtracks.

The track peaked at number 22 in the U.S.{{cite book |title= Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012 |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2013 |publisher=Record Research |page=139}} It spent 21 weeks on the American charts, six weeks longer than his bigger hit, "Everlasting Love." "She's a Bad Mama Jama" also spent eight weeks at number two on the R&B/Soul chart. And on popular Top 40 radio station WABC in New York City, it hit No. 3 at the end of September 1981.[https://www.musicradio77.com/Surveys/1981/surveysep2981.html Musicradio77.com "Weekly Music Surveys" Sept. 29, 1981. Retrieved June 24, 2024.] "She's a Bad Mama Jama" was certified a Gold record. Outside the US, it reached number 34 on the UK Singles Chart.{{cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 94}}

Chart performance

=Weekly charts=

class="wikitable sortable"
align="left"|Chart (1981–82)

!align="left"|Peak
position

New Zealand[https://aotearoamusiccharts.co.nz/archive/singles/1982-02-12 NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, February 14, 1982]

| style="text-align:center;"|27

UK

| style="text-align:center;"|34

US Billboard Hot 100

| style="text-align:center;"|22

US Billboard Soul Singles{{cite book |title=Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004 |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2005 |publisher=Record Research }}

| style="text-align:center;"|2

US Cash Box Top 100

| style="text-align:center;"|23

=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable"
align="left"|Chart (1981)

! style="text-align:center;"|Position

US Billboard Hot 100{{cite web|url=http://www.bullfrogspond.com/whitburn/1981wye.htm |title=1981 Year End |website=Bullfrogspond.com |access-date=2016-10-23}}

| style="text-align:center;"|136

Certifications

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|artist=Carl Carlton|title=She's a Bad Mama Jama|award=Gold|relyear=1981|certyear=1981|accessdate=October 27, 2019|refname="RIAA"}}

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Sampling

  • The song has been often sampled in rap music,{{cite web|url=http://www.whosampled.com/Carl-Carlton/She%27s-a-Bad-Mama-Jama-(She%27s-Built,-She%27s-Stacked)/sampled/|title=Samples of She's a Bad Mama Jama|website=whosampled.com|access-date=July 14, 2016}} including Foxy Brown and Dru Hill's "Big Bad Mama".
  • In May 27, 1999, Chinese American singer Coco Lee sampled "She's a Bad Mama Jama" into her track in Mandarin produced by Korean-American Asian music producer Jae Chong called “We Can Dance” featured on her album From Today Until Forever (今天到永遠).

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