Mutant Mindframe
label: goodie mob | koch

producers: rondal ruckers, ray murray, dj speedy, pat 'sleepy' brown, andre3000, mel bo, jelly roll, jb, rahad smith, others.
guests: andre3000, gator, sleepy brown, slim calhoun, 8ball, khujo, t-mo, witch doctor, big rube.
year of release: 2003
"Like a piece of wood and them spirits got the mutant's mind" says Big Gipp on OutKast's "Git Up Git Out". His first appearance, the Goodie Mob's first appearance on some true Dungeon Family love moment. A lot has happened since then, like the Goodie Mob is a trio now and OutKast blew up. But Gipp is still a mutant. Maybe even more so, now that he is making the other music, the one that other people don't do. He's the good freak amongst the boring normals. And he caters his whole album to that, as if he actually believes in anything I just wrote.
Meaning his album is approaching things in a traditional way, with the 'properties' of traditional in this case being: creative, good, different. Just a quick listen to songs like the in your face "Choppin Through The Night" (featuring Gator) or even the flagship track "Boogie Man" featuring no one else but the one and no one else Andre3000. Who not only speaks, but also produced the song. A spacey offering for Gipp to kick his braggadocios arsenal. Gipp certainly likes to flow for exactly that sake, but at the same time he makes sure to write songs that are going deeper than that. Be it on the regularly conscious "These Times" (that features a very dope beat with a great drum, both hooked up by DJ Speedy), or the taking the caring one step further, when he speaks on all the kids the world loses, without anyone tooting a horn, on "Creeks" (featuring Witch Doctor).
tracklisting
1. Intro (I Know The Pain)
2. Make The People Say
3. Choppin Through The Night feat. Gator
4. You Buck, We Buck feat. Gator
5. Steppin Out feat. Sleepy Brown
6. Wildout feat. Slim Calhoun
7. Boogie Man feat. Andre3000
8. All Over Your Body feat. 8Ball
9. Strange
10. 3 Wordz
11. Let's Fight feat. Khujo, T-Mo
12. These Times
13. Creeks feat. Witch Doctor
14. History Mystery
15. Zone Three feat. Big Rube
16. Outro
The various faces of the mutant, who claims to always spit a different flow in this interview, carries him through very laid back tracks like "Zone Three", the irresistible grooving "Steppin Out" (featuring Sleepy Brown), the slow rolling "Make The People Say"or the dramatic, big and in your face songs like "You Buck, We Buck", the crunk "Make It Happen" or the determined "Let's Fight" that has Gipp team up with his Goodie Mob brothers T-Mo and Khujo.
Facing such music, as a journalist, you're almost obliged to come up with a wacky term, like Scientific Southern. Yeah, let's call this Scientific Southern Rap. Just because a "Wildout" featuring Slim Calhoun contains all the hypeness, the call and response type vibe, as well as the swerving of the southern twang and mentality, electrified by a certain science fiction futuristic newness. Cause the funk is just a couple of years ahead of right now on "Strange". But Southerners still like the funk dirty, like on "All Over Your Body" (with 8Ball), where a woman is romanced over a singing guitar. More of that vibe is on "History Mystery". And everything sounds good in all its difference (or maybe for all its difference), apart from maybe the seriously boring beat on "3 Wordz".
But of course that 'Scientific Southern' is total crap. Big Gipp simply does what the Dungeon Family is known for: creatively exploring the next steps this rap thing can do. He does so with an ear for what works and pairs it with either good entertaining, or deep inspiring verses. What's just as much the real 'art'-ist mind frame, as it seems to be the 'mutant's mind frame.'
review: tadah
 
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