Cee Lo Green Reunites with Goodie Mob For New Album

True Cee Lo Green fans remember the time before he was The Lady Killer, before he and Danger Mouse led fans to St. Elsewhere as soulful duo Gnarls Barkley and even before he was a Cab Calloway (Ironically, his real name is Thomas Calloway.) suit and wig-wearing celebrity judge on hit NBC music star search show, The Voice. Yes, before that, Cee Lo Green, was a barely known rapper in a barely known Southern rap group, Goodie Mob, a four-man subsidiary of the Outkast-sponsored Dungeon Family.

 Being the “good” group member that he is, Green has announced that he will be returning to his rap roots to work on a new album with Goodie Mob, despite the fact that he’s been recording another Gnarls Barkley album for over a year.

“…I’m actually planning on completing a Goodie Mob album first,” Cee-Lo said to The Source. “So I am working on both of them, in a very calm moderate kind of way. You know we absolutely have the creative drive to do Goodie Mob, and we already started Gnarls Barkley about a year go so I’d like to right that statement.”

Green is most known for his raspy, soulful singing voice, so to put the third Gnarls Barkley album on hold to focus his attentions on a rap career that was obscure at best may seem questionable to some. However, Green’s passion for rap goes beyond Billboard charts and notoriety.

“Goodie Mob is here to stay and so is hip-hop,” he said. “And we as a community need help, and I’m a part of the community, so I believe doing another Goodie Mob album is doing a civil service, if you will.”