Music

Goodie Mob are rapping again on "Special Education"

by Tyler Munro

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The first single in Goodie Mob’s comeback arsenal was “Fight to Win,” which for lack of a nicer term was absolutely terrible. It stripped everything that made the hip-hop quartet special and replaced it with an overblown interpretation of their twilight albums; more significantly, they weren’t really rapping on it.

All is forgiven on “Special Education,” which while still bizarrely fixated on future sounds brings the group’s old Southern flow back to a time before Cee-Lo was relegated to singing the hooks. This time Janelle Monáe gets the honour, bridging rhymes by Big Gipp, Khujo, T-Mo and Cee-Lo with remarkable restraint. It’s hard to say they’re back, but following a brutal first single, their comeback album Age Against the Machine might actually now be worth the wait. Expect it out on August 27. [via MissInfo]