Goodie Mob released their debut album Soul Food November 7, 1995
Written by Mister Anderson on November 7, 2022
Soul Food is the debut album from the Atlanta hip-hop group Goodie Mob, released by LaFace Records. Its title track was a hit single and the album included the first use of the term ‘dirty south’ (originated by Cool Breeze), on the track of the same name. The Goodie Mob quartet includes Cee-Lo Green, Big Gipp, Khujo, and T-Mo. Guest vocalists on this album include André 3000 and Big Boi of Outkast, Cool Breeze, and Witchdoctor. In 1996, it was certified gold as sales stand at over 500,000 units in the U.S.
The album is dedicated to the memory of Sheila J. Tyler-Calloway, Green’s late mother. Soul Food received critical acclaim for its raw, Southern, socially conscious lyrics and original production from Organized Noize. Along with Outkast’s Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, Soul Food has been regarded as one of the two albums that brought southern hip hop to the mainstream, and it is regarded as a southern classic.
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