Robbed hit of the week 5/24/21 - Goodie Mob's "Black Ice"...

 

 

"Black Ice (Sky High)" - Goodie Mob featuring Outkast

from the album Still Standing (1998)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #50

 

This week's "robbed hit" comes from the Atlanta-based rap group Goodie Mob, who had cracked the pop top-40 in the autumn of 1995 with their single "Cell Therapy". In 1998, they returned with their second album, Still Standing. The comic track "They Don't Dance No Mo'", which climbed to #53 on Billboard magazine's R&B Airplay chart. For the first retail single release, though, the group went a bit more serious with "Black Ice", written by group member Cameron "Big" Gipp and producer David "Mr. DJ" Sheats, and featuring fellow Georgia rappers Outkast. The song paints a picture of life in the poor "Dirty South" but really comes to life on Outkast's Andre3000's verse, where he goes from quoting Shakespeare to getting to the real life of drugs and crime. The music video had the same camera tricks as Soundgarden's trippy "Black Hole Sun" clip as well...

"Black Ice" stopped at about the halfway mark on both the pop and R&B (#48) charts in Billboard in August of 1998. It also rose to #4 on their Rap Singles list. Internationally, the single went to #49 in New Zealand. The Still Standing album, released in April of 1998, was their highest-charting set, cresting at #6 on the Billboard 200 sales tally. 

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Here's Goodie Mob and Outkast performing "Black Ice" in concert in 2016...