Editing CeeLo Green (section)

===2004–08: Second solo album and formation of Gnarls Barkley===
[[File:Gnarls Barkley.jpg|thumb|right|Green (front) with Danger Mouse (back)]]
His second Arista album, ''[[Cee-Lo Green... Is the Soul Machine]]'' (2004), brought a more branched-out sound and more deeply explored southern rap music. This is evidenced by collaborations with "the biggest hip-hop musicians of all time", including [[Ludacris]], [[T.I.]], and [[Pharrell Williams]].{{Sfn|Watson|2013|p=43}} The album debuted and peaked at number 2 on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|Top R&B/Hip Hop Album]] chart.{{Sfn|Watson|2013|p=44}} It received critical acclaim and was described as "one of the most ambitious albums to come out of any genre in recent times."{{Sfn|Watson|2013|p=45}}

Along with DJ [[Danger Mouse (music producer)|Danger Mouse]], Green formed a duo called [[Gnarls Barkley]]. Green first met Danger Mouse at a [[University of Georgia]] event. They later collaborated on the remix of the Danger Mouse and [[Jemini]] song "What U Sittin' On?" from the 2004 album ''[[Ghetto Pop Life]]'',<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/sample.html|title=Sample the Future|last=Goetz|first=Thomas|date=November 2004|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]}}</ref> before working together again on the song "Benzie Box" from the 2005 [[Danger Doom]] album ''[[The Mouse and The Mask]]'', where Green sings the chorus.<ref name="Whitburn2007">{{cite book|first=Joel|last=Whitburn|title=The Billboard Albums: Includes Every Album That Made the Billboard 200 Chart|date=April 15, 2007|publisher=Record Research Incorporated|isbn=978-0-89820-166-6|page=264}}</ref>

Gnarls Barkley's first album, ''[[St. Elsewhere (album)|St. Elsewhere]]'', was released on April 24, 2006, in the UK and May 2, 2006, in the United States. ''St. Elsewhere'' entered the charts at No.1 in the UK, as did the first single, "[[Crazy (Gnarls Barkley song)|Crazy]]". "Crazy" is the first single to reach number one in the UK based on digital download sales alone and is ranked by ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' as the greatest song of the decade, thus making it Green's most successful project to date.<ref name="ALLMUSIC" /> A second album by Gnarls Barkley, titled ''The Odd Couple'', was released in March 2008. Its first single came out in January, titled "[[Run (I'm a Natural Disaster)]]".<ref name="ALLMUSIC" />

Seeing the success achieved by Gnarls Barkley, Arista and Legacy released a 17-track greatest hits collection of songs by Green in 2006, titled ''[[Closet Freak: The Best of Cee-Lo Green the Soul Machine]]''. It features predominantly solo tracks by Green and several Goodie Mob songs.<ref name="LLC2007">{{cite book|author=SPIN Media LLC|title=SPIN|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_G-FewpAsvB0C|date=February 2007|publisher=SPIN Media LLC|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_G-FewpAsvB0C/page/n78 83]–|issn=0886-3032}}</ref> Green's song "What Part of Forever" was included on ''[[The Twilight Saga: Eclipse]]'' [[The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (soundtrack)|soundtrack]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/twilight-saga-eclipse-original/375362499|title=The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)|date=May 25, 2010|publisher=Apple iTunes|access-date=June 24, 2014}}</ref> In 2008, Green performed a rendition of the 1974 single "[[Kung Fu Fighting]]" by Jamaican vocalist [[Carl Douglas]] for the animated film ''[[Kung Fu Panda (film)|Kung Fu Panda]]''.{{Sfn|Cook|2012|p=37}}