
Er'thang ain't figured out, but everything is "Gangsta S***." Snappin' and trappin'. Everything is loud, boisterous and intentional, "Gasoline Dreams" burning bright, no breaks, unless it's Big Boi and 3 Stacks telling us to take a breath and make a stop at "Spaghetti Junction" to pick up Kim, Cookie, Eco, Badu, and Boo and the D.F. Ain't nan humbly mumbled seven light years below sea level. So come kick it wit ya folk, myself, and writers and NPR Music contributors extraordinaire Christina Lee and Gavin Godfrey, as we travel back in time to experience the sonic and lyrical mayhem of what it means to create something new. Stankonia showcases influences from multiple genres, eras, feelings, and experiences, including EDM on the much celebrated and canonized "B.O.B."
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DJ" Sheats - are on full display for the majority of the album. Earthtone III - consisting of Benjamin, Big Boi, and DJ David "Mr. Stankonia was a curation of not only OutKast's investment in the future, but a blueprint for what was to come later with Speakerboxxx/The Love Below: a look at the group's evolution as men and as artists, solidly and firmly centered in a stronghold of how the South could sound. Music Features The South Got Something To Say: A Celebration Of Southern Rap Benjamin was blasting centuries ahead with his latest moniker, André 3000, an Afrofuturist prediction that the future was Black and dope as hell, and Big Boi was growing increasingly experimental in not only his lyrical delivery but his fashion sense, paralleling Benjamin's own eccentric flair for fashion. Never ones to shy away from the stank of imagined and social-historical realities, Stankonia is a demonstration of André Benjamin and Big Boi evolving their sound, their identities, and their art. They stayed true to what they did best and created something powerful on the fringes of mainstream pop culture's expectations of them as southerners and as rappers.īreaking new ground cleared from the debris of nostalgia, burned with their Chonkyfire, Stankonia challenged listeners to reconsider what it meant to be OutKasted in the wilderness of an unknown new world. Released on Halloween 2000, months after the initial Y2K scare that left people terrified of being throttled back into a period of darkness and technological paranoia, Stankonia took full advantage of the new millennium. When OutKast released its fourth studio album Stankonia, the pioneering duo out of Atlanta, Ga., was not new to this, but they remained true to the hip-hop thing. 31, 2000, and we're still feeling the stank two decades later. Anyway, this album is diverse like jerk chicken, and you should really pick it up if you don't have it.OutKast's Stankonia was released Oct. The Way You Move is a fun song with a smooth bassline. This was far and away the album's most popular song. Hey Ya! was overplayed to death in 2004, but the radio doesn't play it anymore. These tracks show this album's diversity, as Bust showcases a tight beat, a chorus effect, wah-wah guitars, Big Boi's deep voice, and Killer Mike's "yeti-aggravating" yells. "Bust", "Hey Ya!", and "The Way You Move". Now, I will get on to the three best tracks.

A gun with pink steam? That sounds pretty wussy, but this side is about love. The Love Below depicts Andre 3000 holding some kind of gun with pink steam coming out of it. This shows that this is going to be a Southern hip-hop album.

Speakerboxxx shows Big Boi sitting in a very furry chair, wearing some thick soled moccasins. Both of the covers for this album sum the album up perfectly. Big Boi's side, Speakerboxxx, was a very hardcore album with pounding basslines, deep voices, chunky wah-wah guitars, and tight rhythms. Big Boi and Andre 3000, also known as Outkast, decided to enhance their creativity by releasing Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Until one day, 2 rappers from Atlanta decided to make a double album of epic proportions. Hip-hop was mostly reduced to the sounds of Joe Budden and Lil' Jon. Review Summary: Outkast defy any expectations for this smorgasbord of an album.
