On this present day in Hip Hop historical past one in every of Atlanta’s oldest collectives, Goodie Mob, stepped on the scene with their hit debut Soul Meals. Because the second launch by Georgia’s personal Dungeon Household collective, Soul Meals confirmed that the south really had one thing to say.
Within the early 90’s, southern Hip Hop’s attraction was purely business. Membership anthems and summertime jams monopolized the southern air waves, not permitting any room for the aware to make a lot headway between the NoLa bounce, Miami bass, and Houston’s Chopped and Screwed sub-genres. What made Goodie Mob stand out was their capability to construct on the type created by shut co-conspirators, OutKast. That innovation coupled with the collaboration with LaFace‘s personal manufacturing powerhouse Organized Noize, Goodie Mob was capable of create one in every of Atlanta’s first hit albums.
Soul Meals was the world’s introduction to the ‘soiled south’, with the family time period being first coined on this album. Musically, Goodie Mob was a synthesis of southern gospel, jazz, blues, with a contact of Atlanta’s signature marching band sound. As lyricists, the crew had a righteous gangster attraction with very by-any-means-necessary undertones. Their poetic and harmonic type allowed them to play as a voice of the south sonically and thru their subject material.
Commercially, the album was successful from the in any other case unknown group. Throughout the first few months of its launch, the album had each been licensed as gold by the RIAC and offered over 500,000 copies in the USA. The album’s singles, “Cell Remedy”, “Soul Meals”, and “Soiled South” all grew to become southern basic making The High 10 Rap Singles chart. The album itself peaked at #43 on the Billboard 200 chart and #8 on the High R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart.
