Ladies and gentlemen, the good old days. I'm only 23 years young but this video takes me back to a much more simpler time. Look at me, all retrospective and shit before noon.
The first time I heard the Soul Food album I was slouched in my auntie's car barely able to decipher the lyrics largely due to the fact that the noise from the trash back replacing the car window was loud as fuck.
I could go on and on about how this record and OutKast's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik molded my musical tastes but instead I will just insert a blockquote educating the unfortunate souls who have no clue about Goodie Mob:
Goodie Mob's earnest and reverent approach made them one of the more admired groups of their era, and undeniably one of the most respected groups in the often irreverent and scoffed at Dirty South scene, if not the most respected. The Atlanta group's first album, Soul Food (1995), stands as one of the earliest Southern rap albums to emerge on a major label and, along with OutKast's debut, essentially proved that rap was no longer a West and East Coast phenomenon.
Besides being pioneering, Soul Food also stood out for its quality — the album dealt with serious themes and featured an undeniably unique aesthetic, attributed as much to producers Organized Noize as group members Cee-Lo, Khujo, T-Mo, and Big Gipp. Goodie Mob's sincerity continued with Still Standing, their 1998 sophomore album, as did their still-unique sound. By this time, the Dirty South movement had been put in motion and the group suddenly found themselves with a considerable following, most newcomers astounded by Goodie Mob's thoughtfulness relative to their Southern peers. As the '90s came to a close, Goodie Mob's close allegiance to fellow Atlanta rappers OutKast proved noteworthy in the wake of that group's breakthrough with Stankonia. No longer was Goodie Mob a cult phenomenon but rather a mass phenomenon.
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