Along with their Dungeon Family siblings Outkast, Goodie Mob represented a high point for socially aware, soulful and street savvy 90s rap. At least until a “ghetto laser tag” related mishap caused member Cee-Lo to exit the group and pursue a lucrative career in recording buzzworthy car commercial music and hanging out with Carlos Santana.

Almost ten years later, the Atlanta quartet is back together and the reunion tour hits Langdon venue The Scene this Saturday. Plus, if the grown man Southern rap quotient wasn’t high enough already, Houston legend and DC’s favorite rapper Scarface is also on the bill as a “very special guest.” Get up, get out and get tickets.

I’ve come to be untroubled in my seeking
And I’ve come to say that nothing is for naught
I’ve come to reach out blind, to reach forward and behind
For the more I seek, the more I’m sought

These lyrics, from Joe Pug’s “Hymn 101,” might as well be the tagline for Pug’s current year-long tour, which has taken him from tooling around the local circuit in his hometown, Chicago, to tailing alt.-country legend Steve Earle’s tour bus on a swing down through Texas and back up toward the Great Lakes. From there, he’ll take a brief sojourn to Norway then take up with Josh Ritter for an upper-Midwest tour before heading west for festival season. “I rent a room in Chicago,” he tells me Tuesday after a set in Richmond, “but I’ve probably slept in it about 20 times this year.”

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