"Mama Kin" is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith, which appears on their 1973 self-titled debut album.

"[2] Music historian Andrew Grant Jackson claimed that the "hyped-up pace" of the song reflected Aerosmith's "anxious youth.

"[3] Jackson described the song as "the first of Tyler's many installments about a poor gypsy's battle to find peace of mind in the face of grueling obstacles like groupies and pot, hoping he won't have to go back on the wagon and work for his dad.

[5] Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci said that unlike most of the songs on the album, "Mama Kin" is "bursting with train-kept-a-rollin' locomotive action, even if it "sounds tentative at times, not sure if it should take that next step, and the rhythm's start-stop progression kinda breaks the flow.

"[6] Aerosmith biographer Martin Huxley called "Mama Kin" an "acknowledged classic", saying that it "encapsulated all the best qualities of the band's early rhythm 'n' roll approach, with soulful accents from sessionman David Woodford's sax.