Big boi and dre present outkast album cover

BIG BOI AND DRE PRESENT OUTKAST ALBUM COVER PLUS

вЂњ 13th Floor / Growing OldвЂќ ( ATLiens, 1996)ДЄTLiens is an album about a group on the rise, and вЂњ13th Floor/Growing Old,вЂќ the albumвЂ™s final track, shows the responsibility that comes with ascent. DJ come in and my feet start moving as my mind goes numb again.

And just as my brain starts to fry from AndrГ© opening my third eye, the hook and scratches courtesy of Mr. But there isnвЂ™t even the slightest sign of turbulence as the two trade verses. One moment IвЂ™m nodding my head and listening to Big Boi tell a short story about how heвЂ™ll never get caught lacking again, then all of sudden AndrГ© 3000 is running through walls in my brain like the Juggernaut talking about cod liver oil and the Illuminati. Like many other Outkast songs, the indisputable grooviness of вЂњWheelz of SteelвЂќ-which emanates from the Focus IIIвЂ“sampled beat, infectious hook, and unfaltering flows-can easily engulf Big Boi and AndrГ©вЂ™s wisdom. But when they called their shot in 1994, they didnвЂ™t know what that future held, just that they needed to get there.

Looking back, it seems obvious that the most forward-thinking rap group of all time wouldвЂ™ve been focused on the future since their inception. Instead, they were already wary, eager to get to the next stage. They shouldвЂ™ve been excited, perhaps a little boastful. They were just 19 years old, fresh out of high school and just beginning their recording career. And what jumps out immediately is their paranoia about the present: вЂњTime and time again see I be thinking about that future,вЂќ Big Boi opens the first verse вЂњTime is slipping, slowly but surely,вЂќ Dre opens his. вЂњ MyintrotoletuknowвЂќ ( Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, 1994)ДЄs the first real song off the first Outkast album-and one with the word intro in the title-вЂњMyintrotoletuknowвЂќ is worth dissecting to see what Big Boi and AndrГ© were trying to tell us. вЂњGangsta Shit,вЂќ buried 20 songs into the album, isnвЂ™t as flashy or iconic, but is just as adventurous, managing to do that Stankonia thing where itвЂ™s incredibly busy with diverse sound-guitars, drums, synths, whinier synths, layered vocals-but not claustrophobic. JacksonвЂќ-I wasnвЂ™t 10 years old when the album came out, but can clearly recall football pads paired with vaquero chaps, Sleepy Brown in a fur coat, and nodding house pets. There were bigger songs like that on Stankonia, like вЂњSo Fresh, So Clean,вЂќ вЂњB.O.B.,вЂќ and вЂњMs. The best Outkast songs sound like how I imagine their weekends look. True to their name, they were outcasts, even if they gave the world no choice but to embrace them. (And in one extraordinary case, it includes a Dre and Big Boi guest spot thatвЂ™s too iconic not to account for.) Through it all, a theme emerges: AndrГ© and Big Boi may have been one of the most popular and respected hip-hop groups of all time, but they achieved those things their own way.

BIG BOI AND DRE PRESENT OUTKAST ALBUM COVER PLUS

It includes all the hits and classics youвЂ™ve come to love, plus the deep album cuts and B-sides that show off their versatility. Here, we want to celebrate the best songs in the Outkast discography (yes, we even accounted for the solo songs recorded for Speakerboxxx/The Love Below). You can read about the albumвЂ™s legacy-and how it planted the seeds for the groupвЂ™s dissolution-elsewhere on The Ringer today. ItвЂ™s not their best album (thatвЂ™s Aquemini) and itвЂ™s not the one that made them household names your mom would recognize (thatвЂ™s the one with вЂњHey Ya!вЂќ), but it is their most daring, influential effort. On Saturday, OutkastвЂ™s seminal fourth, Stankonia, turns 20. And together they changed the sound of popular music in the process. They went to the underground, and then to outer space, and then back to Atlanta. They gave Southern hip-hop a battle cry, and they gave East Coast purists a Southern group to latch onto. They won over critics, both white and Black alike, and won a handful of Grammys. A lot has changed since then: They recorded four classic albums-each more adventurous than the last-and sold 10 million copies of their fifth. That moment came nearly 30 years ago, when the artists who would become AndrГ© 3000 and Big Boi were just a pair of wide-eyed Atlanta teenagers in love with the music of De La Soul and Das EFX, hoping to impress producers Organized Noize and Laface Records label head L.A. How вЂStankoniaвЂ™ Changed Outkast-and Popular Music-Forever Ever

Big boi and dre present outkast album cover