Plantation Lullabies

Artist	Me'Shell Ndegéocello
Format	CD
Label Name	Maverick
Producer	Andre Betts, David Gamson, Me'Shell Ndegéocello, Bob Power
Release Date	1993 10 19
Run Time	53:10
Song List	1: Plantation Lullabies (1:31) 2: I'm Diggin' You (Like an Old Soul Record) (4:25) 3: If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night) (4:31) 4: Shoot'n up and Gett'n High (4:14) 5: Dred Loc (4:05) 6: [Untitled] (1:41) 7: Step into the Projects (3:54) 8: Soul on Ice (5:08) 9: Call Me (4:45) 10: Outside Your Door (5:08) 11: Picture Show (4:38) 12: Sweet Love (4:54) 13: Two Lonely Hearts (On the Subway) (4:16)
Style.Categories	Contemporary R&B, Club/Dance, Alternative Pop/Rock

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Me'Shell Ndegéocello's debut album twists and turns through so many genres -- R&B, pop, jazz, hip-hop -- that it's hard to put a finger on just where she wants to take its 13 songs. That she also spins conventional racial and sexual identity here makes Plantation Lullabies an occasionally overwhelming -- as well as a vibrantly sophisticated -- listen. Ndegéocello defies labels throughout, tagging her slinking and crawling songs with a rubbery flow that's just as rooted in '70s funky soul as it is in '90s hip-hop culture. The best songs here -- "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)," "Dred Loc," and "Outside Your Door" -- work their way into their grooves with a seamless, and almost uniform, bounce. It can be a bit derivative (for all of Ndegéocello's genre-crossing, she always seems to go back to the same musical blueprint), but most of the time it's just about as boundary-busting and as affecting as '90s R&B gets. ~ Michael Gallucci, All Music Guide