Cee-Lo was a pretty damn good rapper:
Its kind of weird that, based on his work with Goodie Mob during the 90s, one could say that Cee-Lo is up there with Scarface and Andre 3000 in terms of being one of the best rappers from the south and now there is a whole generation of kids who will probably never know that Cee-Lo was a rapper in the first place. There are even a good number of people my age (21) that don’t know Cee-Lo actually started out primarily as a rapper first and a singer second. Now he is most well known as the singer from Gnarls Barkley. Despite this, there has been a Goodie Mob reunion recently and there have even been talks of a new project.
Lets hope that Organized Noize produces it all and that Cee-Lo actually raps on it.
Its kind of funny (and obviously sad) that the two most talented MCs (by far) from the Dungeon Family, Andre 3000(who will forever be in my top 5) and Cee-Lo, ended up finding out that they enjoy singing much more than making hip hop music and pretty much stopped rapping. When these guys were (primarily) rappers they were just on another planet when it came to lyrics, flow, content and straight up emotion. They were the best thing about two albums that are among the best of hip hop: ATLiens by Outkast and Soul Food by Goodie Mob.
If you want an example of why Cee-Lo is easily one of the best MCs to come out of the south, just listen to the classic album Soul Food by Goodie Mob. Songs like this one, “Goodie Bag”, show that he was almost unfuckwithable back then. He loses his mind on this shit
(via talknurdy2me)
