Pray for the twenty one year old version of you. Pray for the fifteen year old version of you. In “Necromancer” Cee Lo says, “the production is progress but the/reason is retro.” It’s like KRS-ONE telling his audiences to pray backwards. To look for Saint would put her where we first started, disabling us from returning to that same time and space from which we spawned the idea to search. She’s constantly eluding us while leaving behind clues to find her. Saint is suppose to do for us what we can’t do for ourselves. Where is Saint? Who is Saint: you, me, him, her, they, them, she, he, everyone, it and all things. The cover art is a mushroom cloud nuclear explosion filled with skyscrapers, helicopters, palm trees, a gas mask, a lion, a spear piercing an army helmet, a lit cannon ball, a tank with smoke slithering out of its barrel, an astronaut with his left hand raised and on his glass face reads “evil yxes,” then there’s a sign that reads “open 24 hours,” another sign that reads “don’t walk” and a couple of missiles with eyes minus pupils. In between each song you hear the reel turning, preparing the listener for the next short feature they’re about to witness. When pressing play, the first thing you hear is a film projector starting up and spinning. The same day Israel started attacking Lebanon, “They have a right to defend themselves,” said Bush in Israel’s defense (not to mention the satellite navigational missiles the U.S. They were responsible for introducing the disease to America in entertainment form as if to prophetically say, “Yes, this is something real in modern day that is going to spread exponentially.” In Gnarls Barkley’s case, the disease is self hatred fueled by a collective consciousness (our community) and the result is cultural death, “stupid is the new cool” and war.
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Elsewhere the TV series was the first to have an AIDS patient on their show. Elsewhere the album is a city “over there” filled with damaged humans needing immediate repair to subsist, a soul’s need to smile, to be rained upon, transform, be accompanied by Feng Shui, be paradoxical, and finding the time to dance after working like a robot. The patients were bums, lower class inner city dwellers and addicts (crack was a traveling disney world back then) yet they found refuge at this hospital. Elsewhere was also a TV show in the 80’s about a dysfunctional hospital in Boston with heart felt doctors who cared about people (think ER). The multiple meanings build detours and alternative routes to different conclusions leading to the same place. They’ve known each other since 1998, but have been pursuing solo careers till Danger Mouse slipped Cee Lo a beat CD in 2003 and from there, the wick to their rocket ship was lit and a quite count down had begun.
Gnarls Barkley consists of veteran singer/song writer/rapper Cee Lo Green, former founder/member of the rap group Goodie Mob, and Danger Mouse, a phenomenal producer responsible for reinventing the remix with his outlawed Grey Album(The conceptual project meshed Jay-Z’s Black Album vocals with the musical production of The Beatles’ White Album.) Both Cee Lo and DM are based in Atlanta. I can’t remember being this “hyphy” over an album since Kid A.
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The song, “Crazy” has been blasted through the skin of every media pore there is, including rock radio stations and even schizo, retarded, culture killing 106 & Park (the same clowns that wouldn’t play Little Brother’s “Lovin’ It” video, claiming it was “too intelligent” for their viewers). You should say, “thank you” to Cee Lo and Danger Mouse for recording this album.
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