Music Review

Cee-Lo Green & His Perfect Imperfections (2012)

EW's GRADE
B+

Details Lead Performance: Cee Lo; Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

Following Goodie Mob's conflicted swan song, World Party, the Atlanta hip-hop crew's MVP explodes like a man released from creative prison. In the great Southern tradition of Reverends Al Green and Little Richard, Cee sings and raps praise to God and sex, hammering Afrocentric beats, wasp-swarm guitars, and overdriven church organs into an LP that wants to save hip-hop's soul. A lost cause? Perhaps. But this remains one helluva sermon. B+

Originally posted Apr 26, 2002 Published in issue #650-651 Apr 26, 2002 Order article reprints
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