Cee-Lo

Cee-Lo Green & His Perfect Imperfections may be the most manic and spectacular hip-hop album you'll ever hear. Whether he’s grunting truisms on "Live (Right Now)," rasping sex confessionals on "Closet Freak" or letting his beautiful falsetto slip into a whistle on the transcendent "Gettin' Grown," Imperfections is gorgeous and singular. This former Goodie Mobb member is one of the South's most eccentric and talented emcees/vocalists.

Transparent Refugee camper John Forte is doing fourteen years as a cocaine trafficker;
Goodie Mobster Cee-Lo is as upright as any hip-hopper this side of Kirk Franklin. Forte is a
Trinidadian by way of Brooklyn; Cee-Lo is an ATLien as American as pecan pie. FortŽ's
prep school scholarship lent him a jet-set vibe; Cee-Lo's just so down-home. But they have
this in common: Both want to go somewhere new on their new albums, and both... More >

Not only does he sing, he transcends good-versus-evil! ("Live [Right Now]," "Southern Love") (Grade - ***)