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"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[2] 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.

"She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)"
Single by Carl Carlton
from the album Carl Carlton
B-side	"This Feeling's Rated X-tra"
Released	August 1981
Genre	Funk[1]
Length	5:52 (Album) 3:56 (Single)
Label	20th Century
Songwriter(s)	Leon Haywood
Carl Carlton singles chronology
"This Feeling's Rated X-Tra" (1980) "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)" (1981) "I Think It's Gonna Be Alright" (1982)

The track peaked at number 22 in the U.S.[3] 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. "She's a Bad Mama Jama" was a Gold record. Outside the US, it reached number 34 in the UK Singles Chart.[4]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (1981–82)	Peak position
New Zealand[5]	27
UK[4]	34
US Billboard Hot 100	22
US Billboard Soul Singles[6]	2
US Cash Box Top 100	23

Year-end charts

Chart (1981)	Position
US Billboard Hot 100[7]	136

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[8]	Gold	1,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Sampling

• The song has been often sampled in rap music,[9] including Foxy Brown and Dru Hill's Big Bad Mamma.
• 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).

References

External links

• Carl Carlton - She's a Bad Mama Jama on YouTube

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