Goodie Bag
Cee-Lo – “Free (Full Version)“
Live on Georgia State Radio, 88.5 (1995)
Paul Arnold has a great interview with Cee-Lo over at Hip Hop DX. Though I have my issues with Gnarls, it’s good to hear he’s serious about the Goodie reunion and rapping again. Rap has suffered in his absence. He also mentions that “Free”, his short gospel intro to Soul Food was originally recorded as a full song. Well, incidentally, this clip of Lo kicking what appears to be the full version live on college radio over the Society Of Soul “Pushin’” instrumental has been floating around the Divshare circuit.
And that’s not all, after the jump is a long freestyle session from the same show, alongside Black Thought and Rahzel from The Roots (though Goodie mostly spits verses from the album) and the full interview (which I haven’t listened to yet)
Freestyle:
Interview:
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
i heard somethin about that guy knujo not co signing gays?
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
I thought that the word was that the verse on Goodie Bag was off the head. So did he freestyle this and then re-do it for the album or is it all just a Lo written?
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
co-sign w/noz on pretty much everything here. and thanks for the full version of “free”. also lol at david refusing to let it go and continuing to make himself look like a fool. ya lost, son. deal with it.
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
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May 23rd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Ain’t that a bitch. I just listened to this interview earlier this week. I didn’t catch this.
May 24th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Talib and Randall, G-Wiz, Chester D-Molier (spelling definitely wrong) 88.5 Rhythm and Vibes
This show was the shit. Where I first heard countless joints, Player’s Ball months before it blew up. Man, thanks for posting this Noz! I used tape this show on reel to reel every week, but I taped over it every week:( natch
May 24th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Free sounds perfect over that beat. Shoulda made the album, but shit is damn near swisher perfecto anyway.
May 25th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Just finished running through the Ta-Nehisi Coates book, saw you posted up a link the other day. Well worth a cop from everybody.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Yeah, Khujo doesn’t co-sign gays. Probably because the Bible doesn’t co-sign gays. But that’s another can of worms…
And noz, I really wish ya’ll would come up off that “having issues with Gnarls” rhetoric I keep hearing. I promise, it’s like folks think Hip Hop is all that Black folks are allowed to do! OPEN YOUR MINDS UP! Hip hop is one of the youngest of all forms of music; stop boxing folks into a category and let an artist express himself. And if you don’t “get it”, then ask somebody who does so you can gain understanding.
May 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Sigh. Again with this. I theoretically have no problem with rappers singing (or black folks, certainly LOL). I do think they, like everyone, should avoid sappy half baked hipster bait vanity projects. Cee-Lo has an incredible gospel soul record in him somewhere. The problem with Gnarls is that the production is limp and the songwriting lazy and rife with cliches. It’s not groundbreaking music by any means and anyone who claims otherwise knows very little about actual groundbreaking music.
It’s the opposite of Love Below, which was a fairly adventurous, well written and well produced album in the hands of a nearly unbearable vocalist.
May 26th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Yeah I love the first Cee-Lo solo album and I don’t think Gnarls somehow requires a more open mind. Danger mouse is a weak producer whose resume boasts Doom and C-Lo’s lowest points.
May 26th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Is there a PLACE, on earth, where one could find any southeast slim album? I’m listening to that track “the bomb” on the regular, and my researches on any other material (albums preferably) from the guy fail on the regular. And no I’m not going to just buy an album without listening to it first. Any help?
May 27th, 2008 at 2:54 am
Djeff – it’s on amazon.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I hate it when I look stupid
May 27th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
This is incredible. I’ve wanted to hear a full version of this for years!
May 28th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Much respect Noz! This brought back some memories of an incredible period here in the A.
It’s crazy to hear them boys talking about their album which would become a certified classic.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I don’t keep up with new music; I’m old and dried up. But I just got MTV6 as part of my internet package, and I was randomly watching a video. Turned out to be (I guess?) the new Gnarls song. To quote Dicksnot: “I kinda liked it”. Crocker!
May 29th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Thank you (period)!
August 11th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
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