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Age Against the Machine is the upcoming sixth studio album by Atalanta-based hip hop group Goodie Mob. The album is scheduled to be released on August 27, 2013.

Background

The four members appeared on stage together on October 1, 2006, following a Gnarls Barkley show, stating that they were back together and on good terms. They officially announced they were working on an album and the group's reunion November 19, 2007, on Atlanta's V-103 radio station. On September 19, 2009, Goodie Mob performed for the first official reunion concert at the Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia. In November 2010, Cee Lo Green stated the that the group was ten songs into the album, saying, "We’ve started kind of unofficially, We’ve got at least ten or fifteen songs as Goodie Mob. But you know, a lot of the times when you’re recording, the first few songs hardly ever get used, so we’re just getting started. Now that Lady Killer is done, and I’m out of that space, I can give my undivided attention to Goodie Mob and make sure that that’s seen all the way through."

In June 2011, Cee Lo Green stated that he would be recording a new Goodie Mob album before recording the third Gnarls Barkley album, saying "Let me clear this up now, that comment was made very casually I’m actually planning on completing a Goodie Mob album first, 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." On July 25, 2011, Cee Lo Green announced via his Twitter that the title of the Goodie Mob reunion album would be titled We Sell Drugs Too. However, in February 2012, Cee Lo tweeted that the name has been changed to Age Against the Machine. On April 23, 2012, Goodie Mob premiered the first single from the album "Fight To Win" on The Voice. On April 6, 2013, it was announced that the album would be released on June 18, 2013. On May 19, 2013, Cee Lo Green announced at the Billboard Music Awards that the album's official release date would be changed to August 27, 2013. On June 4, 2013, the album cover was released. A few other confirmed tracks have also been announced, namely "Special Education", "Understanding", and "Pinstripes". Cee Lo Green has anticipated that the album "will be a critical and commercial success because we are about to take hip-hop to a quantum leap".

Songs

On June 4, 2013, at an exclusive listening event in Los Angeles Goodie Mob previewed the album. The high tempo "White Power" one of the tracks in Age Against the Machine, is depicted as "a black perspective on white power" by Cee Lo Green. According to Cee Lo, a collaboration with Eminem was set to take place, but the latter artist eventually backed out of the project, apparently because of the other commitments he had made in his personal life.

"Pinstripes" features T.I. and references Goodie Mob's breakthrough single, 1995's "Cell Therapy," in his verse. Given that T.I. is also from Atlanta, Goodie Mob said it was particularly special to collaborate with him. "We love him," Cee Lo said regarding T.I. "He's our son. He's also our peer and he's one of our kings as well." "I'm Set" and "Kolors" explore the impact gang culture have had on American society. "Gipp, you wanna talk about your gang affiliations?" Cee Lo asked Big Gipp once the discussion turned to "Kolors." Gipp, who grew up in Georgia, said he knew about the Los Angeles-based Bloods and Crips gangs through music, but became more familiar with them once he toured in the mid-1990s with Snoop Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound, whose members are Crips and typically wear blue. Bloods typically wear red, as Gipp has done throughout his career. "Now, in 2013, gang culture has taken over America," he said. "The gang culture, we never knew it would be that strong and manifest itself in the South."

The group campaigns for individuality on "Special Education," which features Janelle Monáe and was produced by Young Fyre. "I'd rather die than not be distinguished," Cee Lo said, repeating a portion of his lyrics from the song. "Amy" recounts Cee Lo's first relationship with a white woman. "It shouldn't even be a taboo," Cee Lo said. "So if you're mad, you're probably a racist." He added that the track "Radio Killa" is like "a trailer to an action movie" and that "Understanding" explains how "a mistress wants to be a wife without all of the responsibility." On the song "Father." "The significance of 'Father' is for the youngsters to realize, without us, there is no them," Big Gipp says. "When you see Kendrick Lamar, you hear Andre 3000. When you see Drake, that's Cee Lo. When you see me, you see Trinidad ."

Confirmed tracks

  • "Fight to Win"
  • "Special Education" (featuring Janelle Monae)
  • "Understanding"
  • "Pinstripes" (featuring T.I.)
  • "Amy"
  • "White Power"
  • "I'm Set"
  • "Kolors"
  • "Radio Killa"
  • "Father"

References

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