Golden age and pushing it into a new era. It's a hell of a ride, reclaiming the adventurous spirit of the Mariachi groove, salted by slippery horns and loose-limbed wah-wah How "The Way You Move" offsets its hard-driving verses with seductiveĬhoruses, or how "The Rooster" cheerfully rides a threatening minor-key Unpredictable juxtapositions, such as how "Bowtie" swings like big-band The arrangements are overflowing with ideas and thrilling, Grounded firmly within hip-hop, but the beats bend against the grain and Is ignoring boundaries, and the rest of his album follows suit. From the moment Speakerboxxx kicks into gear with "GhettoMusick" and its relentless blend of old-school 808s and breakneck breakbeats, it's clear that Boi Music, held that Big Boi's record, Speakerboxxx, would be the more conventional of the two and Andre 3000's The Love Below the more experimental, that doesn't turn out to be quite true. If conventional wisdom, based on their public personas and previous Listens, providing some of the best music of 2003, regardless of genre. Thing is, while it would haveīeen a wild, bracing listen to hear these 39 songs mixed up, alternatingīetween Boi and Dre cuts, the two albums do prove that the music can be solo in execution but remain OutKast Name - it's to prove that the two can exist under the umbrella of the OutKastĪesthetic while standing as individuals. Of course, is part of the point of releasing solo albums under the group Slightly, since the focus is on the individuals, not the group. By isolating themselvesįrom each other, Big Boi and Andre 3000 diminish the idea of OutKast That the group can do anything is tarnished. Songs - the individual records may be more coherent, but the illusion Although both albums have their own distinct character, the effect is kind of like if the Beatles issued The White Album as one LP of Lennon tunes, the other of McCartney Imagine where the duo was going to go next, but one possibility thatįew entertained was that Big Boi and Andre 3000 would split apart, each recording an album on his own and then releasing the pair as the fifth OutKast album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, in the fall of 2003. Was fearlessly exploratory and giddy with possibilities. In its kaleidoscopic, deep-fried amalgam ofĭirty South, dirty funk, techno, and psychedelia, Stankonia The most eagerly awaited hip-hop album of the new millennium may be To call OutKast's follow-up to their 2000 masterpiece Stankonia
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