Goodie Mob - Soul Food
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Artist: Goodie MobEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1995-11-07
Music Label: Arista
Soundtracks:
- Free
- Thought Process
- Red Dog
- Dirty South
- Cell Therapy
- Sesame Street
- Guess Who
- Serenity Prayer
- Fighting
- Blood
- Live At The O.M.N.i.
- Goodie Bag
- Soul Food
- Funeral
- I Didn't Ask To Come
- Rico
- The Coming
- Cee-lo
- The Day After
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Music Review: "We ain't natural born killas. We are a spiritual people."
Rating: 5 Stars
Onstage at First Avenue Nightclub in Minneapolis, Goodie Mob's Cee-Lo Green lifts up his shirt to reveal a spare tire's worth of brown skin hanging over his jeans as, accompanied by a live band and with a big smile on his face, he rap croons the chorus of the group's hit single: "Come and get yo' soul food, well, well / Good old-fashioned soul food, all right.". Ten minutes later, the playful moment is long gone. After asking if there are and "revolutionaries of the mind" in the house, Cee-Lo delivers a blistering sermon disguised as an a cappella rap to the integrated all ages crowd: "Yeah, it's true, Uncle Sam wants you to be a devil too..... There's evil white folk just like there's evil black folk. All you soldiers, take responsibility for your own actions. White people know more about black history than you do; whose fault is that?..... We ain't natural born kilas, we are a spiritual people."
The members of Goodie Mob are part of a new generation of black musicians who make no distinction between hip hop and rhythm & blues in their music, a generation able to see the failed hopes of the civil rights movement and the gangsta backlash it generated through the same historical prism. The result is Soul Food, a debut that opens and closes with optimistic gospel based anthems sandwiched around tracks that range from "Guess Who", an unabashed homage to mothers, to "Live At The O.M.N.I.", a raging screed against black cops and other "devils" in the "system". Songs are rapped or sung as the occasion warrants, and are backed by a blend of sampled beats and live instrumentation. It's an ambitious hybrid with an organic cohesion stemming from the group's common roots: the four members of Goodie Mob (Cee-Lo, Khujo, Big Gipp, T-Mo) have known each other since most of them were attending classes at Benjamin Elijah High School in Atlanta.
After the show, T-Mo explains how the four Goodie Mob members often deliver distinctive but complementary raps within a single song: "We all grew up in the same `hood during the same time period, so we experienced maybe not the exact same thing, but most of the same type of vibe."
Cee-Lo: "We don't want to take credit; we have been led to speak, as a sign of the times. We needed a new form of music, a new expression. People are starting to deal with the whole music instead of just rap. Rap is like the paper on the outside of the box; we have to deal with the gift. Rhythm & blues just means rhythm and pain, rhythm and truth, rhythm and emotion. When there are divisions in [styles of] music there is stagnation."
Asked if growing up in Atlanta - the paragon of the New South with a growing tradition of black elected officials - has made a difference in their work, the group members guffaw in unison: "Naw, that's all an illusion, like everything else.". Big Gipp adds: "We deal with the real and that is that everybody is going through the same exact thing, the same pain. The object of Soul Food is to get people to think about change."
And to pay tribute along the way. Khujo states: "Soul Food is dedicated to our mommas. "Guess Who" is like the moral to everybody's whole story, because you don't get but one momma; she brought you in and you've got to treat her with the utmost. That's who fed us before we started eatin' McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken, and that's where soul food comes from, that recipe, the patience and the time that is invested." (- Britt Robson)
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