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Crisman, Sarah (January 13, 2010). "Grammy-nominee RC Williams influences music industry at large, calls Dallas home". Pegasus News. Archived from the original on February 26, 2012 . Retrieved January 21, 2010. For those expecting another downtempo collection of sultry meditations, the live-band funk opener, “Penitentiary Philosophy,” puts that notion to rest. While Mama’s Gun is stylistically ambitious, the sound is also comforting and familiar. Engineer Russell Elevado introduced a warm, honey-like sound by exclusively using vintage microphones and recording equipment for the album, which was recorded in the famous Electric Lady Studios. The studio regularly housed a collective of musicians who called themselves The Soulquarians, frequent collaborators who drew inspiration from one another, solidifying the neo-soul sound of the early 00s with era-defining albums like D’Angelo’s Voodoo and Common’s career-shifting Like Water For Chocolate. Flowing from past to present In lots of ways it’s not so different because we always wrote the songs together, we always talked about what we're going to do together. It was just that we were getting high at the same time.We're just not getting [that way now] but we're doing all the same things. Platon, Adelle (November 27, 2015). "Erykah Badu Calls In Andre 3000 on 'But You Caint Use My Phone' Mixtape". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media . Retrieved December 1, 2015.Gold and Platinum". Cria.ca. December 1, 2011. Archived from the original on March 31, 2010 . Retrieved January 4, 2012. The album's lead single, "Honey", was released on December 11, 2007. [59] It reached number 88 on the US Billboard Hot 100, on which it spent three weeks. [60] The song also charted at number 22 and spent 17 weeks on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. [60] Gold and Platinum". Cria.ca. December 1, 2011. Archived from the original on April 12, 2009 . Retrieved January 4, 2012.