"Big Bad Mama" is a single by American rapper Foxy Brown and American R&B group Dru Hill from the soundtrack to the 1997 film, '' How to Be a Player''. The song also appeared on the European re-issue of Foxy Brown's debut album, ''

Ill Na Na ''Ill Na Na'' is the debut studio album by American rapper Foxy Brown. It was released on November 19, 1996, by Def Jam Recordings. It was reissued on September 29, 1997, in the UK with an addition of the song "Big Bad Mamma". Brown began wor ...

''. The song, which was produced by the Trackmasters and based on an interpolation of Carl Carlton's "She's a Bad Mama Jama", became a semi-successful hit, peaking at 53 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, Foxy's second highest charting single as a solo artist. The single was released with the then recently reunited

EPMD EPMD is an American hip hop duo from Brentwood, New York. The duo's name is a concatenation of the members' names "E" and "PMD" or an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars", referring to its members: emcees Erick Sermon ("E" a.k.a. ...

's "Never Seen Before" as the

B-side The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes; these terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings. The A-side usually features a recording that its artist, producer, or record compan ...

Single track listing

A side

#"Big Bad Mama" (LP version) #"Big Bad Mama" (instrumental)

B side

#"Never Seen Before" (LP version) #"Never Seen Before" (LP instrumental) #"Never Seen Before" (remix)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{authority control 1997 singles 1997 songs Def Jam Recordings singles Dru Hill songs Foxy Brown (rapper) songs Song recordings produced by Trackmasters Songs written by Leon Haywood Songs written by Jay-Z Songs written by Jean-Claude Olivier Songs written by Samuel Barnes (songwriter)