Closer (Goapele album)

Closer is the debut studio album of R&B singer-songwriter Goapele Mohlabane. It was self-released in a strictly limited run, only available at select brick-and-mortar outlets and Web sites throughout the United States. After 5,000 copies sold independently, she released a longer album through Hieroglyphics Imperium that got noticed by Columbia Records, which picked up that album for worldwide distribution, added several tracks, and signed her to a contract through Skyblaze Recordings, her family-owned imprint. The catalog number is an in-joke reference to her birthday and initials of her name.

Closer
Studio album by Goapele
Released	March 5, 2001
Recorded	1999–2000
Genre	Neo soul
Length	40:41
Label	Goapele Music 071177GKM
Producer	AmpLive Mike Tiger Shaka Ramsay Nate Greenberg Jeff Bhasker Soulive Johnson Eric Krasno The Duedaddy
Goapele chronology
Closer (2001) Even Closer (2003)

Several songs on this album were rerecorded for their inclusion on the follow-up album, and it is the only album on which the song "You" (a different composition from the song of the same name on Change it All) is available. It is now considered to be a valuable collectors’ item.

Track listing

1. Closer (4:40)
2. Childhood Drama (3:23)
3. Too Much the Same (4:21)
4. Romantic (Uncensored Version) (5:58)
5. You (0:57)
6. Catch 22 (Original Version) (5:29)
7. Butterflykisses (3:23)
8. Things Don’t Exist (4:32)
9. Salvation (3:44)
10. It Takes More (3:56)

Covers

• Canadian rapper Drake's 2007 mixtape Comeback Season featured a song titled "Closer," which used the chorus (sung by Andreena Mill) and backing instrumental from Goapele's original.
• Compton Rapper YG also made a cover of this song with singer Tanea titled I Made It on his Just Re'd Up mixtape.