CeeLo Green exploding mobile phone video was publicity stunt for new project, singer confirmed 'alive and well'
Overnight, a video featuring CeeLo Green holding a mobile phone as it exploded was shared across the internet alongside reports claiming the singer was knocked unconscious by the incident.
However, while numerous people were worried about Green for multiple hours, it turns out the whole thing was a publicity stunt for an upcoming musical project.
“What you saw today was a clip from a smaller video that we were shooting for a new project I'm doing called ‘Gnarly Davidson’,” he told fans via a Facebook Live video.
Green went on to apologise and confirm he is ‘alive and well’ despite the concerning reports published earlier in the day. Watch both the Facebook live apology and the exploding mobile phone video below.
CeeLo Green’s last record, Heart Blanche, was released in 2015, the singer having made sparse public appearances throughout 2016.
Green’s most prominent recent feature was on the Kendrick Lamar track "Untitled 06| 06.30.2014” on the EP Untitled Unmastered, a compilation of songs recorded during the To Pimp a Butterfly sessions.
Kendrick Lamar's albums, ranked
Kendrick Lamar's albums, ranked
1/4
4th: Overly Dedicated (technically a mixtape, but the breakthrough one) - Tracks like 'Michael Jordan' and 'Alien Girl' felt a bit stock and Kendrick had yet to really find his voice and musical style, but you could see the potential there on this debut. P&P is still a banger, the use of samples is so effective in 'Opposites Attract' and on songs like 'Average Joe' he cut his teeth on recounting stories from his gangbanging days with a critical eye.
"I don't do black music, I don't do white music, I do everyday life music." - prophetic.
2/4
3rd: Section.80 - Kendrick's storytelling really came into its own with this record, telling the stories of beaten girlfriends and prostitutes solicited by corrupt police. Bangers were plentiful ('A.D.H.D', 'Ronald Reagan Era', 'The Spiteful Chant'...) and K-Dot's interest in jazz started to blossom in songs like 'Rigamortus' and the incredible 'Ab-Souls Outro'.
"I'm not on the outside looking in / I'm not on the inside looking out / I'm in the dead fuckin' centre, looking around"
3/4
2nd: To Pimp a Butterfly - The fact that this is one of the best albums of our generation and yet only Kendrick's second best album (imo) speaks volumes. An unbelievably well-orchestrated odyssey of a record that came as such a fresh and different proposition when we were all busy bumping dancefloor-orientated Drake tracks. 'Alright' became anthemic for the movement against police brutality, and 'u' gave us one of the most tearjerkingly personal insights into the human psyche ever committed to record. Masterful instrumentation pinned down by an intricate flow. I immediately wanted to hear it on vinyl and I don't even buy vinyl.
4/4
1st: good kid, m.A.A.d city - You could very legitimately argue that TPAB is Kendrick's finest album to date, but to me, GKMC is just absolute magic. It is such a cohesive record from start to finish, transporting you from wherever you are listening to the streets of Compton, a real 'day in the life'. I'm as rapt listening to 'The Art of Peer Pressure' as a child is to a ghost story, and 'Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst' manages to completely enthrall for all of its 12 minutes.
'Backseat Freestyle', 'Money Trees', 'Swimming Pools' and 'm.A.A.d City' were all people were waiting for to come on at house parties that year, the pitch-shifting verse in the latter being a huge highlight for me. TPAB's politics was overt, but I like how subtly it was embedded in this record.
There is currently no release date on Green's upcoming project but new music is expected imminently.
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