This review is coming from a person who thinks that Soul Food is a top 10 album of all time so keep that in mind. Since their initial album I have felt that successive albums were missing something. In fact, each album became slightly worse. Although they all had good songs, the quality slowly diminished. So I was hesitant to get this cd and I am sad to say that I did. This is a bad album and their worst album. There are 2 or 3 good songs. I was shocked by the 360 the Goodie MOB has taken. For example, there is one song on this album talking about robbing people and if you ain't in the game for the money then what the hell you here for, which is completely different from what they were preaching in earlier albums (admirably, I might add). Anyways, this album is not worth the money.

After Cee-Lo left the infamous Goodie MoB following the extremely too mainstream album World Party and issued a couple of decent solo joints of his own, people thought it was the end of the crew. But still came their latest album, One Monkey Don't Stop No Show. The title alone got people talking, and I think my favorite website said it best: "while the group is rumored to still be on good terms with Cee-Lo, it's pretty hard not to read something into the title of the LP."

But after hearing "Play Your Flutes", a lot of fans decided that T-Mo, Big Gipp and Khujo could do fine on their own (even though that song has helping hands from Kurupt and Sleepy Brown). The thing is, though, that's the last song on the album, and it's not exactly easy to get to that point. A lot of these songs really aren't that great. There are a lot of been-there-done-that songs like "God I Wanna Live", "Shawty Wanna Be a Gangsta" and "Dead Homies" (and why is that song so peppy-sounding?). And "High & Low" is sort of risqué.

There are also some weird songs, including the crazy "Big City" and the generic "Goodiadvice". If you think the latter has an unimaginative title, you're right, but there's more. "One Monkey" doesn't really go anywhere, yet it still manages to contain some of the wackest lyrics I've heard all year. On second thought, maybe I should say that about "123 Goodie". Check the chorus: "One Goodie, two Goodie, three Goodie, four/Five Goodie, six Goodie, seven Goodie, more." And for some reason, in the MIDDLE of the album you'll find a track called "We Back", but the song is so dull that it'll make you say, "So?"

Everything else is tolerable, except for the fact that in a few songs the guys actually let themselves get outshined by Witchdoctor. And I'm also not sure when Big Gipp and Khujo started sounding exactly alike. Despite its shortcomings, this is still better than World Party, but it still doesn't come remotely close to Soul Food or Still Standing. You're probably better off picking up either of Cee-Lo's albums instead. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show? Wanna bet?

Anthony Rupert

After the backlash the group received from "World Party", Goodie Mob returns closer to form with this release. The powerful "God I Wanna Live" has Soul Food written all over it. The two thing that brought this album down was when the group ventures outside of their comfort zone (namely "In da Streets", "Grindin", & about 2 or 3 others) and the obvious void left by Mr. Ceelo Green. But if you compare this album to a lot of garbage that's out now, you can see the goodness (no pun intended) of the album. Nowadays, any album with more than 5 tolerable songs is considered a good album. Anyway, this is a pretty good album by my standards. Even without Ceelo, it could have been 4.5 stars by excluded the forementioned tracks and adding 4 Organized Noize tracks to replace them. Still worth listening to though.

All the significant things that should have been said about this album have pretty much been covered in all the previous reviews. And for the most part, they're all true. This is a good album that could've been better. But something is missing, and I think we all know what (or who) that is. Tracks like "Shawty Wanna Be A Gangsta", "High & Low", "One Monkey", and "Goodiadvice" are good songs, but they just don't sound like "Goodie" style tracks. And out of place tracks like "In Da Streets", "Big City", "Grindin", and "We Back" are wack and the beats just don't suit the G-Mo-B at all. And "It Ain't Nothin' For Us" was a huge mistake.....Goodie and gunplay mix about as well as water and a grease fire. But you will find that there are tracks like "God I Wanna Live", "Play Your Flutes", "123 Goodie", "What You See", and "Dead Homies" that are tight and are classic "Goodie style" tracks that have Mr. Green written all over them. If you want proof, just listen to the hook on "God I Wanna Live" or try to picture him singing some sort of hook on "Dead Homies". You can listen to this album and actually point out spots on the album where you could say "Insert Cee Lo Here". His absence is THAT apparent on some tracks. Overall, the CD is a solid effort. It's like a 1000 piece puzzle though........no matter how many pieces you have put together, it might be a great accomplishment, but it's not complete without the final piece. And on this album, the final (and most notable) piece is missing on this LP and that keeps a good album from being a great album.

Standout Tracks: 123 Goodie, Play Your Flutes feat. Sleepy Brown & Kurupt, God I Wanna Live feat. Witchdoctor, Synopsis feat. Big Rube, Dead Homies (My Favorite), and What You See

This album was a huge disappointment. I was a HUGE Goodie fan until this drivel came out. Cee-lo pulled the Goodie sound together and he is truly missed. The beats sound like they came out of one of Master P's late 90's "lets make an album in 10 days" efforts.

I will forever remember Goodie as a two album group and wash this album from my memory.