Takin' it Back, Waaaaay Back

I absolutely adore my friends and I know they adore me because they always think of me.  Conceded, yes, but it's true.  A co-worker of mine gave me a bunch of hip-hop vinyl records today and much to my surprise, I found my fifty-second pick.

Artist - Goodie Mob
Album - Still Standing
Released - 1998
Label - LaFace/Arista
Genre - Hip-Hop/Rap


Tracks:
Side 1
The Experience
Black Ice
Fly Away
The Damm
Side 2
They Don't Dance No Mo'
Beautiful Skin
Gutta Butta
Ghetto-ology
Side 3
Distant Wilderness
Greeny Green
I Refuse Limitation
See You When I See You
Side 4
Inshallah
Just About Over
Still Standing

Listening to this takes me back, way back to my Junior year of high school.  Believe you me, I loved hip hop, well I actually still do.  Not many people know, or maybe some do know, that Cee-Lo Green was a part of Goodie Mob, the Atlanta based hip hop group.  At the time of this record, all kinds of amazing artists were coming out of Atlanta, Georgia and Goodie Mob was one of them.  This is their second album and with songs like Beautiful Skin, They Don't Dance No Mo' and Ghetto-ology, not to mention the guest appearances by OutKast, this record made was raw in all forms of rawness.  For the majority of this extensive, yet lucrative album, Goodie Mob used their lyrics to put a message out there and if you'd like to know, listen to the end of Beautiful Skin.  How I love to hear public service announcements when listening to a great song.

Enjoy!