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Hip-hop/funk savant Cee Lo has been a part of some pretty great projects in his career (Goodie Mob, Gnarls Barkley), but this solo release might just blow them all away. Kiss-off anthem of the year? Fuck that, this could be a song of the year. Plus he fulfills my imagination of Charles Barkley singing.
Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple
The Odd Couple is an appropriate name for Gnarls Barkley’s latest album; the collaboration between mash-up extraordinaire Danger Mouse and eccentric rapper Cee-Lo Green is anything but normal. The Odd Couple continues St. Elsewhere’s Grammy-winning formula of horror-cinema beats and off-the-wall rhymes, but not much else.
Gnarls Barkley has never been a duo that shied away from taking chances, and The Odd Couple is no exception. Cee-Lo sounds like a fiery gospel singer on “Run (I’m A Natural Disaster)” and the beats sound like nothing else on rap radio, such as the slow jam, 9-mm-reloading sounds of “Would Be Killer.”
Nevertheless, despite the two’s ambitious innovations, one could listen to St. Elsewhere and The Odd Couple and consider the two records interchangeable. If you hated “Crazy,” chances are you’ll hate this album, too, but don’t think that will stop Gnarls from continuing to freak out mainstream hip-hop.
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