To unify the front for change, Goodie Mob is back to making music that captures the camaraderie and synergy that made them so easy to rally behind in the first place. Unlike their 2013 ‘comeback’ album, which saw cranky aging men fumbling away through bars, Survival Kit encounters four wise seers willing to lead this next generation of rambunctious change-seekers through the chaos all around. But thankfully, on Survival Kit they’ve stopped the finger-wagging, dropped their canes, and weaned themselves off their painkillers and antacids. From 2000 to 2013, the Mob released two flaccid attempts at a sound they’ve pinned as their own, pairing it with lyrics that aged a lot faster than their graying hairs suggested. Yes, even rappers and singers as legendary as the frenetic four of Big Gipp, CeeLo Green, Khujo, T-Mo are susceptible to a dud or a few. Unfortunately, their seemingly clairvoyant musings have recently caused them to come across as angry old men with ‘I told you so’ attitudes, hence 2013’s clumsy mid-life crisis of a record, Age Against The Machine. Just as this new record speaks to current headlines, one can look back on much of Goodie Mob’s catalog and deem them prophetic. Still, Goodie Mob’s unbeknownst rally cry to tear it down has never resonated more true than on Survival Kit, their first album in seven years. It is doubtful a Joe Biden presidency will yield radical enough change. Effective? It’s yet to be determined with the recent power shift (though even that’s in jeopardy) from a terrifyingly foolish fascist to a senile neoliberal - a marginal improvement at best. “Before you can rebuild, you’ve got to destroy / And these walls gonna come tumbling down / These walls gonna come tumbling down.” Over 20 years ago, on the song “Rebuilding” from Goodie Mob‘s 1999 album World Party, the Dirty South trailblazers unknowingly provided the steps necessary for change in America.
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