She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)
Song by Carl Carlton
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Oct 11, 2026
DJ Pup DaddyHOST
It started out as an album cut, and then a B side for Leon Haywood in 1978, titled She's Built, She's Stacked.
DJ Pup DaddyHOST
But in 1981, Carl Carlton revised the title to She's a Bad Mama Jama, and took it to number 22 on the pop chart and number two on the R&B chart.
DJ Pup DaddyHOST
Here's Leon's original B side from 1978.
Soul Brothers 6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, she's built.
BVWHOST
Belinda Carlisle and The Go-Go's, Our Lips Are Sealed, as we look back at Top 40 hits from October 1981.
BVWHOST
Now, here's the biggest hit for R&B artist Carl Carlton, the song that got him a Grammy nomination and spent 21 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, She's a Bad Mama Jama.
BVWHOST
Or if you've never heard the song and you're just reading the title off a script, She's a Bad Mama Jama?
Carl CarltonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah.
Carl CarltonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ooh.
Carl CarltonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ooh.
Carl CarltonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Look at her.
Carl CarltonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She's a bad mama jama, just as fine as she can be.
Brett WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The dys...
Brett WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is a root word from Latin, meaning difficulty, bad, or ill, but unfortunately not in the good ways of being bad or ill, like Carl Carlton's hit song, Bad Mama Jama, or the Beastie Boys hit record, License to Ill.
Brett WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Those are both favorable and positive uses of the word bad and ill, but with learning disabilities, that's not so.
Brett WilliamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Dyslexia.