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On their second album “ATLiens”, Outkast change their musical personas from players to….well….extraterrestrials as a means of incorporating existentialist themes into their songs. Every album that followed after “Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik” saw the duo experimenting with a variety of musical styles like funk, rock, soul and jazz. And from that point, Outkast has proven just that. Andre 3000’s famous response to his detractors was: “The South got somethin’ to say”. At the 1995 Source Awards, they were booed when they came on stage to accept the award for Best Newcomer. Though their album itself was well-received, Outkast was still being looked down on within the wider hip-hop musical landscape, then dominated by East and West Coast rap. Thanks to their debut project “Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik” (a word which encompasses their passion for “Dirty South” hip hop, fancy cars and the player lifestyle), and its Billboard-charting single “Player’s Ball”, Andre and Big Boi became the latest torchbearers of the Southern hip hop movement.
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(Bombs Over Baghdad)” from 2000’s “Stankonia”, or even “The Way you Move” or the crossover SMASH hit that had women up to the age of 85 “shaking like a Polaroid picture” “Hey Ya” from the 2003 double album “Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below”, there’s literally no fucking way that you can say you NEVER heard about Outkast.įormed in 1992 in East Point, Atlanta, Georgia, Outkast is comprised of two rappers: Andre (“Andre 3000”) Benjamin and Antwan (“Big Boi”) Patton. Jackson”, “So Fresh, So Clean” or the epic, earth-shattering musical masterpiece “B.O.B. Whether it’s the mellow sounds of “Elevators (Me & You)” from their second album “ATLiens” (1996), or “Rosa Parks” from their 1998 LP “Aquemini” (arguably the BEST Outkast album ever recorded), “Ms. Now regardless of whether you enjoy rap music or not, let alone follow up its constant evolution, there should be at least ONE Outkast song that you remember growing up to – and enjoying the hell out of. With today’s post, I continue my anniversary music reviews with the debut album of one of rap music’s….hell, MODERN MUSIC’s most influential duos, Outkast.