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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

  1. Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine, Wikipedia
  2. Cee-Lo Green, Cee-Lo Green ... Is the Soul Machine, The Guardian (2004-04-02)
  3. Cee-Lo's 'Soul Machine' deserves an audience, MSN/Today (2004-03-01)