
Writing for Age Against the Machine began in earnest in late 2009.

“We talked the entire time that we weren’t together,” he says. But Gipp insists the group (which also includes Khujo and T-Mo) have always remained close. Rumors of internal feuding within the group were common in the years following Green’s departure.

“But isn’t it a beautiful story? reaching the success that he’s reached and to come back and get his brothers?” I just didn’t know when,” adds group member Big Gipp. “I knew always that we were gonna do another Goodie Mob album. Goodie Mob came of age in the mid-Nineties as part of the Dungeon Family, a diverse collective of Atlanta-based hip-hop and soul artists including Outkast. Listen to Cee Lo Green’s Top Southern Hip-Hop Songs “It’s definitely coming back around full circle,” Green tells Rolling Stone of recording Age Against the Machine, the first Goodie Mob album with the original lineup in over a decade, due next week. Yet he felt it only right to return to his roots. He followed up his Gnarls work with the infectious single “Fuck You” off his 2010 solo album, The Lady Killer, and a high-profile judging gig on NBC’s The Voice. The result? Goodie Mob’s comeback album was put on hold. When Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton, the producer with whom the soulful singer would form the avant-pop duo Gnarls Barkley, sent over the music for the soon-to-be chart-topping song “Crazy,” Green had no choice but to move forward with that project. But just as they were getting into a groove, Green backed out.

In mid-2005, the hip-hop crew Goodie Mob holed up in a studio to begin work on their first album with original member Cee Lo Green since 1999’s World Party.
