Posted April 24, 2012 by Eddie "STATS" 13 comments

Video: Goodie Mob Debut “Fight To Win” Live On The Voice

Step up to the water-cooler, y’all. As you may already be aware, original ATLiens Goodie Mob donned some gold Africa Galactica space-armor to debut their new song “Fight To Win” live on Cee-Lo Green’s dayjob AKA The Voice last night. “Fight To Win” is pop music on an epic scale, rap taken to the arena-sized level of a Queen anthem somewhere between “We Are TheChampions” and the Flash Gordon OST. Here’s the thing after years of slowly-building anticipation culminating in the announcement that GM signing on to write the official song for the NBA 2012 season, I’m not sure I feel it. I’m very unsure, in fact, that I want Goodie Mob to be making epic pop music, as opposed to, say, peeping in my window. It’s too soon to call; I am still absorbing but okayplayers please lock in your votes and tell me how to feel about this song. And while you’re up, s’plain me why Gip and Cee-Lo’s teeth are illuminated with a glowstick grill. Find the official studio-quality audio in the youtube clip below (in case your judgement is affected unduly by the gold laserproof Cylon-suits). “Fight To Win” is available as a single on iTunes now.

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hoytdadd64

That wasn’t GoodieMob, that was a Cee-Lo song featuring GoodieMob. I much prefer keeping the two separate. I love what Cee-Lo has done on his own but I want some peeping in my window type shit too.
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  So it’s like every other good GoodieMob song?
tool2sage

Yeah, this was a bit much. I bet Cee Lo had to pay the G Mob to wear these getups. This isn’t the real Goodie Mob, hopefully this was only for The Voice audience and the album will be dope.
Libertad

Love the song, love the performance . And for those not getting it, if u listen closely and followed the dungeon family(coolbreeze, witchdoctor, outkast) and goodie mob closely since the 90′s you know this song is a freedom song more akin to amped up gospel music (see outkast BOB) than pop trash like ymcmb. I think nigs are hearing the music and seeing the outfits ( which is also nothing new) but not listening understanding and applying the message of the song to their own struggle. This is vintage goodie mob. Black freedom music at its finest.
jam_elite

(shakes head) … I want the old goodie mob back. I got love for Cee-Lo, but like previously stated, this was a Cee-Lo track featuring Goodie Mob.
Nic Orizaga thebiach

The good die mostly over bullshit…and here it is…smh
R-tikk

don’t really feel it… it’s on some BEP spaced out stuff where rapping is actually taken out… These are great MCs, I hope we hear them rap on other tracks.
CrypticSoul

Once upon a time in 1991 there was a group called goodie mob
They made two albums
Soul Food
Still Standing.
They were instant classics, that remain relevant to this day. There are rumors that other albums were made, but that was not Goodie Mob. That other stuff was made by a lesser known group called Ceelo’s Fools, and released on the Lets Make Money, Funk the Music label.
Goodie Mob is gone forever, and unlike De La Soul who had the sense to kill themselves off (re: De La Soul is Dead) which presents the possiblity of rebirth and new life to come, Goodie Mob does not know it is dead. Thus they have joined the ranks of the Vampire Groups. The walking dead minstrel shows that pass themselves off as the groups we once knew and loved, and continue to feed off of our hope that they might rise again. Goodie Mob is a footnote now, reduced to little more than being a cover band for their own music because they no longer embody any semblance of who and what they were when the music was good. Ceelo’s fools were recently honored as the new Kings of the shiny suited rappers, and flossin mc’s.
Goodie Mob died at a World Party in 1999, victims of Ego, Cee-lo, and industry negros.
RIP
http://dssence.net D.Scott

I’m actually feelin this lol
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Pete Nice

It’s pretty clear what’s happened here. The peeps who were there for the Goodie Mob first time around don’t relate to this crap – we’ll be majorly disappointed by this new album. This is for a new generation of fans who only know Cee-Lo for his commercial solo career and lap up all this hip pop bullshit that’s masquerading as hip hop.
tone

He really now has a chance to blow some goodie mob type shh. I can’t f*cking wait.
tone

Cee Lo should blow up the whole Dungeon Family. He and Outkast made the whole world ready for it. Now lets see if cool heads can prevail over overblown egos!