It was a lot that Black people were going through at the time we released that song. It was scary to know that they could come to your house and lock you if you didn’t abide by rules. We were open to all the information that was coming to us. T-Mo: We were actually enlightened by some friends to some new literature and videos, worst-case scenarios of martial law in place and concentration camps. And I think the gas masks and smoke made it real. It was a pivotal moment because we wanted the visuals to match the words. Jeff Weiss pays tribute to their 1995 debut, which overflows with the. We picked up gas masks and we knew what we wanted to look like in the video and on stage. Coming out of the same collective that birthed OutKast, Goodie Mob played an essential part in the rise of Southern rap. We take some pride in being able to chronicle these things in song.īig Gipp: I remember when we first started talking about the video and we went to the Army Surplus store. I believe that this is a drill, an incremental preliminary square one first phase. Even as we live in this, this isn’t the worst-case scenario. It just kind of broadened the scope and it gave me a healthy sense of paranoia. But we, as a group, also had information from the book, Behold a Pale Horse. It looked like they were making upgrades and improvements on a surface level. That caught my attention and I was like, ‘let’s call this song ‘Cell Therapy.’ We wanted to intrigue some thinking from the people up north because we wanted them to know that we could go toe-to-toe when it came to songs and lyrics.Ĭee-Lo: I think it was a simple observation of gentrification that was going on in the neighborhoods. All he had in his cell was books to condition his mind. Khujo: I saw a video where there was a brother who was locked up in a jail cell by himself.
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