I don’t know what gives someone that power, but he has it. That only happens with three or four rappers. Now, as much as I like Big Boi (and I think Speakerboxxx is to The Love Below what Plastic Ono Band is to McCartney), I become deaf to everything around me when I know a 3000 verse is coming. What it doesn’t tell us is anything about Big Boi and Dre as rappers. Forget the big picture, that'll take care of itself. The breadth of their exploration also goes some way to explaining Stankonia’s curious amorality, which swings from the criminally retrograde (Snappin’ & Trappin’) to politically fired-up (B.O.B.) to socially conscious (Toilet Tisha, Humble Mumble) to sexually chivalrous (I’ll Call B4 I Cum) to borderline misogynistic (We Luve Deez Hoez) without reconciling the differences. Jackson? The best way I can explain it isn't great, but it goes something like this: Outkast set themselves the Prince-ly goal of recording literally every idea they’d ever had, carved out a galactic-sized sonic space for their exploration, then covered so much ground in the process that once they were done no one could claim a new sound without it feeling like Outkast got there first. It's literally the sound of turning back time.) So how did pop and rap become inseparable after Ms. (Can you believe this is the first time I’ve realised how perfect it is that a song about bittersweet regret uses a backwards beat. I can still feel my 12-year-old brain struggling to contain the rush of endorphins when that wrong-way-round k - k - ku - k, k - k - ku - k loop starts. That beat-featuring, ahoy! backwards congas-blew my natural mind. Correction: after Ms Jackson, nothing was the same. Whether or not Big Boi and Andre intended to change the face/interface of rap and pop, they did. Like, 1999 ambitious, There's A Riot Going On ambitious, Blonde on Blonde ambitious. In other words, this is insanely ambitious. Next, that’s a harmonium and backwards tabla you can hear. This is a fizzy, bubbly, gloopy, rubbery, soft-play Adventureland of bounce. To start, “bounce”-from the depths of the earth’s core, to the farthest reaches of space, to the Cadillac rolling down the street blasting the hottest new sound. Intro-by no means the most memorable skit on an album laden with great ones (Kim and Cookie just jumped straight to the top of my favourites list)-sums up a couple of Stankonia’s virtues.

Still good but I can't listen to it without getting a headache. Jackson, Spaghetti Junction, I'll Call B4 U Cum, B.O.B., Xplosion, We Luv Deez Hoes, Humble Mumble, Red Velvet, Gangsta Shit, Toilet Tisha, Stankonia (Stanklove). Jackson, & So Fresh So Clean are some of the best songs they have made due to the energy André & Big Boi bring to the table.īest Tracks: Gasoline Dreams, So Fresh So Clean, Ms. The features feel so natural too, rappers likr Mike or Gangsta Boo just spit their verses like they were born to.Īnd in my opinion, while Aquemini is 100% a better album, songs like B.O.B., Ms. There are like 8 skits on here, making the album feel bloated but in reality it goes by prefty fast.

It's probably because of the production handed onto Earthtones III.īut along with this feel comes with the vibes this album brings. Combining their southern rap expertise with the electronic, then-modern 2000s feel. Stankonia, in my opinion, is Outkast's most 'Outkast' album. So now we have a timeless classic to look back on. The website has given me some eh albums so i took a break.

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