Glockappella
A five-minute rap over gunshot effects, built on a sample of The Bar-Kays.
Cee Lo Green, from Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine (2004)
- Written by
- Thomas Callaway, James Banks, Eddie Marion, Henderson Thigpen
- Released
- 2004
- Album
- Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine
Glockappella is the longest track on Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine at 5:21, produced by Green himself. It samples Holy Ghost by The Bar-Kays, and the writers are Callaway, James Banks, Eddie Marion and Henderson Thigpen. The Guardian described it as tricked out with gunshot sound effects and a funk sample of scarcely believable sleaziness, an attack on hip-hop's gun culture that avoids self-righteous worthiness by blaming the greed of record labels rather than society. It quoted the line that tells labels they are making him talk this way. MSN's review called it a vitriolic battle rap over gunshots and clattering bullet casings.
More songs by Cee Lo Green
Fuck You, Crazy, The Art of Noise, I'll Be Around, Fool for You
Sources
- Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine, Wikipedia
- Cee-Lo Green, Cee-Lo Green ... Is the Soul Machine, The Guardian (2004-04-02)
- Cee-Lo's 'Soul Machine' deserves an audience, MSN/Today (2004-03-01)