If you've been avoiding your old friend hip-hop because you're fed up with those materialistic, gun-toting ways, then you need to point your ears towards Georgia. If you're wondering who stole the soul and left rap music riddled with pop hook-stealing sellouts, you ought to launch a private investigation of the Goodie Mob. Evidently, they've snatched up all the heart and are hoarding it in Atlanta. The group's name is actually an acronym for "the Good Die Mostly Over Bulls#!t." Their music is primarily dedicated to showing listeners it doesn't have to be that way. Backed by innovative production unit Organized Noize, the Mob delves deeply into the ghetto experience. But rather than glorify the drug-driven violence that's increasingly representative of urban existence, they battle the societal factors and mental conditioning behind it. You can feel their soulful sincerity, poured generously into each gruff, Southern Rap and in every expansive harmony.

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MTV
Rolling Stone
All Music Guide
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Koch Records

Goodie Mob Back With 'One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show' & Bonus DVD

Goodie Mob is finally back with a brand new studio album minus Cee-lo. Big Gipp, Khujo Goodie and T-Mo Goodie are set to unleash "One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show," their follow-up to World Party. The new album features the hot new tracks “Play Your Flutes” (w/ Sleepy Brown & Kurupt), “One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show,” and the club anthem “123 Goodie.”

Production on the new album comes courtesy of Organized Noize (Outkast, Bubba Sparxx), Bread & Water (Bone Crusher, David Banner), Mark Twyane (YoungBloodZ) and DJ Speedy (Big Gipp) and more.

For a limited-time only, buy the CD and get an incredible bonus limited-edition DVD featuring “The History Of The Goodie Mob,” plus brand new interviews with Big Gipp, Khujo, and T-Mo + Big Boi from Outkast, Killer Mike, Organized Noize, Sleepy Brown and much more.

One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show will be in record stores everywhere on Tuesday, June 29th.

The album’s lead radio single “Play Your Flutes”—which features Sleepy Brown and Kurupt —is a mellow, psychedelic track that urges young hustlers and gangstas to lay down their arms and channel their frustration into the creative process. “Music has been known for calming the savage beast,” Khujo explains. “Instead of going out there acting on something—pulling a gun out and shooting, and really doing bodily harm to someB.O.D.Y—just pick up some type of instrument and go with the flow.” In addition to addressing the theme of urban violence, Khujo’s verse touches on his recent car wreck, a devastating accident that left him as an amputee. “There’s a lot of feeling, a lot of emotion in those 16 bars,” he confirms. No B.O.D.Y Smiling Dot Com

e-Interviews
React Mag Interview - April '04
All Hip Hop Interview - May '04
Thick Online Interview
MTV - 1998

One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show
Track Listing

01. Synopsis (feat. Big Rube)
02. God I Wanna Live feat. Witchdoctor
03. 123 Goodie
04. Shawty Wanna Be A Gangsta
05. In Da Streets feat. Jasper Cameron
06. One Monkey
07. Dead Homies
08. Introducing Gator & Oozie (On Explicit Version Only)
09. Grindin'
10. Goodiadvice
11. We Back
12. Ain't Nothing For Us
13. High & Low
14. Big City (On Explicit Version Only)
15. What You See feat. Melanie "Melbo" Smith & Witchdoctor
16. Play Your Flutes (feat. Sleepy Brown/Kurupt)

Video: Play Your Flutes

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