Artist: Cee-Lo
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Other
Discography:
The Collection
Year: 2006
Tracks: 18
The One
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine
Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections (Clean)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 21
Multi-talented and flamboyant, Cee-Lo initially made a place for himself and his trademark crooning as section of pioneering Dirty South rappers Goodie Mob earlier he broke by in the early 2000s for a colorful solo route. Along with mate Atlanta rappers OutKast, Goodie Mob laid prohibited the figure for the Dirty South style during the mid-'90s, making good waves with their debut album, Soul Food (1995). Cee-Lo was an important member of the radical, often gibber the meat hooks to many of Goodie Mob's best songs (e.g., "Cell Therapy," "Soul Food," "Bootleg Ice"). But the group didn't last too long, and after a few releases over a five-year bridge, Cee-Lo split with Goodie Mob for a promising solo deal with Arista.
The deal came in the wake of Arista's success with OutKast's Stankonia (particularly the individual "Ms. Jackson"), not to mention the burgeoning neo-soul movement characterized by the likes of Alicia Keys, Jill Scott, and Macy Gray. Arista label head L.A. Reid no doubt sensed a luck of potential difference in Cee-Lo and gave him the green light to record a solo album. That album, Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections (2002), sounded unlike anything else out in that respect -- unlike Cee-Lo's past work with Goodie Mob, unlike his neo-soul generation, and dissimilar pretty much anything else take out the weirder corners of OutKast's Stankonia album.
The album unsurprisingly ne'er took off commercially, despite some colorful furtherance on Cee-Lo's part (a wild video for "Closet Freak" and a belly-baring live term of enlistment), and the tattooed freehanded adult male went back the drawing dining table, returning in early 2004 with Cee-Lo Green Is the Soul Machine. This follow-up was just as free-spirited as Cee-Lo's debut only was a more than focused travail, anchored by some radio-friendly singles produced by megabucks hitmakers Timbaland ("I'll Be Around"), Jazze Pha ("The One"), and the Neptunes. It besides featured some gracious production by Cee-Lo himself. Interestingly, Arista released the album shortly later parting ways with Reid and besides afterwards experiencing tremendous, Grammy-winning success with OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, an album (André 3000's half, at least) that sounded quite a bit like Cee-Lo's work.
In 2006, Cee-Lo enjoyed his greated success to date as half of Gnarls Barkley, a couplet likewise featuring producer Danger Mouse. "Crazy," the steer single from St. Elsewhere, the duo's debut album, was an inst hit in the U.K. and steadily rose to the top of the charts in the U.S. by the end of the summer. The critical herald and commercial winner of Gnarls Barkley awarded Cee-Lo the near attention he'd ever enjoyed in his life history to escort.
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