nah ceelo never sold out
he don't do this shit for sales, niggas like eminem, jigga, t.i., sold out
ceelo might never be the best singer live, but son came up w/ catchy jingles just cause that's ceelo tbh he grew as an artist, em ain't ever grow as an artist. dude just started forming gimmicky shit, same w/ jigga(he sold out multiple times in his career knowingly), t.i's last cpl albums are sell out gimmicky shit.
pop wise, miley cyrus is a prime example of a sell out. ceelo green is in a boat with calvin harris to me. calvin's been doing his style of music for a while, ceelo had his voice and style for a while and just expanded on the music he made. he's not like the BEP selling out on some shit from:
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the progression they did just feels like they were always a sellout to me, and i loved the Elephunk/Monkey Business albums tbh. but real talk, all they've done is whatever is popular. They didn't expand to make music that was heartfelt or just their style, but rather some poppy ass shit. the first 3 songs are cool with me but i they stopped being BEP and went into strictly pop shit now like the 4th song