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Why Goodie Mob's Soul Food Is the Greatest Atlanta Rap Album of All Time

By Rodney Carmichael

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | December 11, 2015

The money. The power. The trap. The New South. The War on Drugs. The Red Dogs. The Dixie flags. The Million Man March. The Atlanta Child Murders. The black mecca. The 20th anniversary of ‘Soul Food.’ The South Had Something to Say.

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