Gnarls Biggie

Infobox Album | Name = Gnarls Biggie
Type = Album
Longtype = (bootleg)
Artist = SoundAdvice


Released = July 17, 2006
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Genre = Hip hop, Mashup
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Producer = Sound Advice
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Gnarls Biggie is a hip hop mashup album created in the same vein as Danger Mouse's "The Grey Album". It was produced by a group of Brooklyn-based DJ's known as Sound Advice. The album features 11 songs in which the tracks of Gnarls Barkley are cut-up into beats and then layered with raps of The Notorious B.I.G.. It was released on July 17, 2006 on the website gnotorious.com and was featured on the websites of the music magazines "VIBE" and "Spin". [ Kennedy, John. (2006). "Gnarls Barkley Meets Biggie for Mash-up Album." Vibe.com. July 26, 2006. http://www.vibe.com/news/news_headlines/2006/07/gnarls_barkley_meets_biggie_for_mash_up_album/] [SPIN.com. "Gnarls Barkley Mashed up with B.I.G." Spin.com July 21, 2006. http://www.spin.com/features/news/2006/07/060721_gnarls/] There was also a promotional video released on YouTube. Its album cover parodies the cover of The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Ready to Die" by replacing the baby's head with Cee-Lo's head. All of the track's on the album use beats that sample Gnarls Barkley's album "St. Elsewhere".

The album was also reviewed in the August 10, 2006 issue of "Rolling Stone".

Track listing

# "The Gnotorious B.I.G."
# "The Last Nasty Boy"
# "Smiley Faces Hypnotize"
# "Who's Dead Wrong"
# "Can I Get With Ya Crazy Butt"
# "Necromancing Thugs"
# "Gimme the Online Loot"
# "Ten Feng Shui Commandments"
# "Gone, Biggie, Gone"
# "Just a Party and Bullshit"
# "Victory Coming"

References

ee also

*Mashup (music)
*The Notorious B.I.G. discography
*"St. Elsewhere"

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCA2U_3hGsk Gnarls Biggie Trailer Video at] YouTube
* [http://www.wantsomeadvice.com/ Sound Advice Website]
* [http://www.betavulgaris.com/gnarls/main.htm]