Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape

Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape is an album by Meshell Ndegeocello. It was released on June 4, 2002 on Maverick Records. The album peaked at #67 on the Billboard Top 200 list that year, and was nominated for Best Contemporary R&B Album at the 2003 Grammy Awards. The album also peaked at #21 on the Billboard R&B Album chart and #67 on Billboard's Top Internet Albums chart. Two singles were released from the LP. The remixed version of "Pocketbook" charted on Billboard's R&B Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart, for several weeks, also appearing on the R&B Airplay and Sales charts. "Earth" was remixed by Ben Watt and peaked at #14 on Billboard's Dance Music/Maxi Single Sales chart. "The album pays homage to the power of the word, written and spoken," Meshell Ndegeocello states in the liner notes of the album. It features short clips of spoken word performances by writers, poets and activists such as Angela Davis, Gil-Scott Heron and Etheridge Knight.