Even sampling Primus on "Bad Mutha" is something you can kind of picture Andre 3000 getting a kick out of. But the appeal of Imperfections, and really of Cee-Lo as a guy, isn't the shock of the new but the ease with which he wears it, how casually he tosses off a "sham a lama ding dong" in "Awful Thing" or how matter-of-factly he beseeches a son/brother/neighbor kid to aspire to more than "just keeping it real"--it's how Andre might wear six neon-green mink stoles for a night out on the town, but Cee-Lo'll only wear five. That's fighting formula on the front lines of the future-funk free-for-all, when reeling us in isn't as important as keeping us there. Oh yeah, and Musiq's new record's nice, too.