Soul Food (Goodie Mob album)

Soul Food
Studio album by Goodie Mob
Released	November 7, 1995
Recorded	October 1994–August 1995
Genre	Southern hip hop
Length	61:02
Label	LaFace Arista
Producer	Organized Noize
Goodie Mob chronology
Soul Food (1995) Still Standing (1998)
Singles from Soul Food
"Cell Therapy" Released: September 26, 1995 "Soul Food" Released: February 26, 1996 "Dirty South" Released: 1996

Soul Food is the debut album from American rap group Goodie Mob, released by LaFace Records. Its title track was a hit single and the album included the first use of the term 'dirty south' (originated by Cool Breeze), on the track of the same name. The Goodie Mob quartet includes Cee-Lo Green, Big Gipp, Khujo, and T-Mo. Guest vocalists on this album include André 3000 and Big Boi of Outkast, Cool Breeze, and Witchdoctor. In 1996, it was certified gold as sales stand at over 500,000 units in the U.S.^[1]

The album is dedicated to the memory of Sheila J. Tyler-Calloway, Green's late mother. Soul Food received critical acclaim for its raw, Southern, socially conscious lyrics and original production from Organized Noize. Along with Outkast's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, Soul Food has been regarded as one of the two albums that brought southern hip hop to the mainstream, and it is regarded as a southern classic.