So it was cool to be like hey man, shit, why don’t everybody just come on and do this whole thing under the umbrella Goodie Mob? We rolled up on Gipp ‘cuz I knew Gipp, then we met up with Cee-Lo. At first it was just T-Mo and I doing Goodie Mob, the Goodie Mob flavor.
They were doing everybody’s projects at that time.
We always were recording at that one central location. So, all of us would meet up at the dungeon with our music. Gipp actually came from another group called Chain Gang. That’s when he said Goodie Mob at that time that was me and T-Mo. So at that time, all of us were like individual groups. If you listen to Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, you hear Dre saying in the verse, first Big Gipp, Goodie Mob, Cee-Lo, Outkast, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. Just like the variety of stuff that Parliament had, that’s how I kind of wanted it to be with Goodie Mob.Ĭee-Lo, T-Mo, and Big Gipp were solo artists before you all formed Goodie Mob, correct? They were funky so we came up with the Goodie Mob. Once we heard that Parliament man, we said those guys are funky. When I was a young cat one of my big homies was putting us on to some old music. So the name Goodie Mob actually came from a spin-off of Parliament. And that was done by a friend called Ed-X. But T-Mo and I did the very first Goodie Mob song called “It’s a Goodie Mob Thang You Wouldn’t Understand”. Me and T-Mo had a song called “Living Life Like Lumberjacks”. No, Goodie Mob was the name but we had a song. So Goodie Mob was the name before the Lumberjacks? So it wasn’t changing our name it was just our title we were going to. The managers we had at that time were like, ‘why don’t you call yourselves lumberjacks?’ So we tried that but we didn’t come out with that album until we officially came out with Goodie Mob presents the Lumberjacks. We called ourselves lumberjacks because, we were still Goodie Mob, but the rhyme skills were rough like lumberjacks and it was kind of like living in the woods type, know what I mean? We used to touch on that kind of stuff when we used to rap, about going in the woods and chilling and all that good stuff. What it did, there was another phase that came along with it where actually the name Goodie Mob was the name of the group T-Mo and I had together. But that’s what we were up to it was a southern version of Public Enemy. My voice hadn’t developed yet I was really just a hype man at that time. I think it was either Channel 2 or Channel 5 came over to Gipp’s house and was interviewing us about that song. That was at the time the Gulf War was going on and we actually had a song called “Pray for Peace”.
It was kind of like a southern version of Public Enemy down south.
I was in a group with Big Gipp and Raymond Murray, who’s a part of Organized Noise. After recently releasing the latest single, “Orange Hall”, from his highly anticipated solo album Feed the Lions, he took some time out to look back over his storied career that has spanned three gold albums with Goodie Mob. Khujo “Gun Club” Goodie is many things: emcee most miraculous, one fourth of the Atlanta-based quartet Goodie Mob (including Cee-Lo Green, T-Mo, and Big Gipp), and first-generation member of the Dungeon Family, best known for the multi-platinum success of Outkast.
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