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RapReview Of The Week  [One Monkey] Goodie Mob :: One Monkey
Don't Stop No Show Label: Koch Records  Author: James Corne
Goodie Mob helped Outkast put Atlanta -and the south for that
matter- on the map back in '95 with their classic "Soul Food."
If Outkast represented the southernplayalisticpimps of the
south, Goodie Mob repped the nitty-gritty gangstas. Believe it
or not these were the guys who coined the south "the dirty
south," and taught us how to 'throw them bows' long before
Ludacris.  But what separated Goodie Mob was how they took
gangsterism to a social scope. Their rhymes married the streets
to a college conscious, warehouse workers to art house fanatics,
grit and grime to spit shine. And it was dope. Goodie Mob always
had the unique culinary skills to cook all their street science
into soul food that sounded good enough to eat, which very often
is a problem with socially conscious rappers. As Outkast said
it, they "drop a little science of