One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (album)

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One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 29, 2004
Recorded2003–2004
Genre Southern hip hop
Length1:07:28
Label Koch
Producer
Goodie Mob chronology
World Party
(1999)
One Monkey Don't Stop No Show
(2004)
Age Against the Machine
(2013)

One Monkey Don't Stop No Show is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group Goodie Mob. It was released on June 29, 2004 via Koch Records. Production was handled by Speedy, Ray Murray, Mark Twayne, Bread and Water, Cool & Dre, DJ Paul, Jasper Cameron and J. Wells. It features guest appearances from Witchdoctor, Big Rube, Bone Crusher, Gator Boy, Jasper Cameron, Kurupt, Mario Simpson, Melanie "Melbo" Smith, Oozie and Sleepy Brown. The album peaked at number 85 on the Billboard 200, number 15 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, number 10 on the Top Rap Albums and number 4 on the Independent Albums in the United States.

Contents

Background

This album does not include one of the group's former frontmen, CeeLo Green, because he broke away to pursue his solo career. That left Khujo, T-Mo and Big Gipp to hold up the album. Released in 2004 under independent record label, Koch, after the critical failure of World Party , the crunk and pop experiment, which sold more than any of their other albums. The condensed Goodie Mob returns more to its socially conscious form of its first two releases, Soul Food and Still Standing . The song "Play Your Flutes" was released as the only single off the album.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 61/100 [1]
Review scores
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HipHopDX 3.5/5 [3]
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RapReviews8/10 [5]
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One Monkey Don't Stop No Show was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 61, based on nine reviews. [1]

James Corne of RapReviews found "Goodie Mob sounds newly rejuvenated, almost vivified by the tremendous odds they faced coming back instead of impeded by it". [5] AllMusic's David Jeffries wrote: "uneven, especially compared to their earlier records, and less ambitious than the "bring it on" misinterpretation of the title might make you think". [2] Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian concluded: "on their own terms, at least, they deliver". [7]

Track listing

No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Synopsis" (featuring Big Rube)Speedy1:22
2."God I Wanna Live" (featuring Witchdoctor)Ray Murray4:56
3."123 Goodie" DJ Paul 4:56
4."Shawty Wanna Be a Gangsta"Ray Murray5:18
5."In Da Streets" (featuring Jasper Cameron)Jasper Cameron4:21
6."One Monkey"Ray Murray3:12
7."Dead Homies" Cool & Dre 4:17
8."Introducing: Gator Boy (Skit)" (featuring Gator Boy and Oozie)Speedy2:23
9."Grindin" (featuring Bone Crusher)Speedy4:19
10."Goodiadvice"Bread and Water4:28
11."We Back"Mark Twayne4:19
12."It Ain't Nothin for Us"Mark Twayne3:38
13."High & Low" (featuring Mario Simpson)Speedy5:48
14."Big City"Speedy4:56
15."What You See" (featuring Witchdoctor and Melanie "Melbo" Smith)Speedy3:52
16."Play Your Flutes" (featuring Kurupt and Sleepy Brown) J. Wells 5:23
Total length:1:07:28

Charts

Chart (2004)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [9] 85
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) [10] 15
US Top Rap Albums (Billboard) [11] 10
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [12] 4

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