Cee-Lo - Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine

Artist:

Green, Cee-Lo

UPC:

886976950828

Description:

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Personnel includes: Cee-Lo, Pharrell, Jazze Pha, T.I., Ludacris, Big Rube, G-Rock, Timbaland, Menta Malone (rap vocals).
Producers include: Traxx, The Neptunes, Thomas Callaway, Timabaland, Jazze Pha.
Recorded at Darp Studios and Stankonia Recording, Atlanta, Georgia; Eagle Sound Studios, Doraville, Georgia; Hovecraft Recording Studios, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Criteria-Hit Factory, Miami, Florida.
A hip-hop artist perpetually swerving from a high-pitched rap style entirely his own to a sultry croon just to the left of Al Green, Cee-Lo layers incredibly original poetry over mesmerizing beats of all strains. Formerly a member of Atlanta`s grossly under-appreciated Goodie Mob, Cee-Lo revealed the depth of his talent in 2002 with the glorious, complex, and aptly titled CEE-LO GREEN & HIS PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS.
CEE-LO GREEN...IS THE SOUL MACHINE retains the wonderful unpredictability of its predecessor, but it finds a stronger sense of focus within such an eclectic range. He opens Gil Scott-Heronesque "Sometimes" with the easy observation "ya know, sometimes I wanna rap, sometimes I wanna sing," a Zen-like reflection that sums up Cee-Lo`s intriguing contradictions. On other tracks, he can cruise along in a Sly & the Family Stone style on "My Kind of People" or flow on the socially conscious yet Dirty South-like "Scrap Metal" or even rail against the music industry on the country-tinged "Die Trying." Cee-Lo`s brain clearly races along from idea to idea at speeds well exceeding normal limits, but he has found a way to rein it in for a fantastic, prismatic album--at one angle an avant-garde experiment, and at another a funky pop record.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Intro
2. Soul Machine
3. Art Of Noise, The - (featuring Pharrell)
4. Living Again
5. I`ll Be Around [Club Mix] - (remix, featuring Timbaland)
6. One, The - (featuring Jazze Pha/T.I.)
7. My Kind Of People - (featuring Jazze Pha/Menta Malone)
8. Childz Play - (featuring Ludacris)
9. I Am Selling Soul
10. All Day Love Affair
11. Evening News - (featuring Sir Cognac the Conversation/Chazzie)
12. Scrap Metal - (featuring G Rock/Big Rube)
13. Glockappella
14. When We Were Friends
15. Sometimes
16. Let`s Stay Together - (featuring Pharrell)
17. Die Trying
18. What Don`t You Do? (Outro)

Album Information

Release Date:

03/02/2004

Type:

Performer

Genre:

R&B

Subgenre:

Southern Rap

Label:

BMG (distributor)

Catalog Number:

769508

Original Release Year:

2004

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Runtime:

65 : 26

Guest Artist:

Pharrell Williams; Ludacris; T.I.; Jazze Pha; Big Rube; G-Rock; Timbaland; Menta Malone; Sir Cognac the Conversation; Chazzie

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