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The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams

album by Meshell Ndegeocello

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ7775969 ↗
Source-derived summary

The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams is the seventh studio album by the American musician Meshell Ndegeocello. The album was released in August 2007. Five of the tracks were previously released on Meshell's 2006 EP, The Article 3.

In the U.S, The World Has Made Me The Man Of My Dreams peaked at #186 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart and #60 on Billboard's Top R&B Album chart.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams” is album by Meshell Ndegeocello. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through World, Made and Dreams, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007-08-20. For this dossier, World, Made and Dreams is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Meshell Ndegeocello” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7775969. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2006.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams primary sources, The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams archive and World research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.