Penitentiary Philosophy (track)
by Erykah Badu
Year: 2000
From the album Mama's Gun (track #1)
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Penitentiary Philosophy appears on the following album(s) by Erykah Badu:
- Mama's Gun (track #1) (this album) (2000)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| 11/26/2025 21:05 | Exist-en-ciel | 80,494 | 70/100 | |
| 09/19/2025 11:31 |  VictorVale | 43,233 | 88/100 | |
| 08/28/2025 13:56 | byuzak | 32,861 | 78/100 | |
| 06/08/2025 16:05 | brent13 | 11,041 | 85/100 | |
| 02/18/2025 22:30 | martinjaa | 6,191 | 90/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 83.8/100, a mean average of 84.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.4.
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