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However, as time went on, the duo assumed production duties themselves, reducing Organized NoizeвЂ™s role in crafting the tone of their albums. The acclaimed production team is credited for вЂњdiscoveringвЂќ and mentoring the pair and worked behind the boards for much of their earlier material that made the group household names. Organized Noize produce a handful of songs on Stankonia. AndrГ©вЂ™s verse addresses the mother of Erykah Badu, lamenting that a relationship that he believed would last forever has now dissolved, but still resolving to be involved in the life of his son. Big BoiвЂ™s verse is extremely raw, as he vents his frustrations at the mother of his children, struggling to refer to her as a вЂњlady,вЂќ despite the bad blood between them. Both Big Boi and AndrГ© drew from their own personal experiences to write their verses, reflecting on strained relationships that become victims of bitter arguments between two people that once loved each other.

JacksonвЂќ is also quintessentially OutKast, a famous dedication to their вЂњBabyвЂ™s MamaвЂ™s Mamas.вЂќ Winner of a GRAMMY award for Best Rap Performance by Duo or Group, itвЂ™s unorthodox for a highly successful single, with its twisted keyboards and slippery drums. While AndrГ© 3000 muses about вЂњsitting in a drop-top, soaking wet in a silk suit, trying not to sweat,вЂќ Big Boi encourages his peers to вЂњmake a business for yourself, boy, set some goals / Make a fat diamond out of dusty coal.вЂќ The duo keep pace the entire track, rapping along at warp speeds about learning to navigate life in the roughest areas of Atlanta so that they can succeed as artists.

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And the song comes to a close with soaring vocals from a full gospel chorus. ThereвЂ™s a lengthy guitar solo and scratch breakdown by Mr. The track pulses away at 155 beats per minute, incorporating elements of Kraftwerk-inspired proto-electronic music and Drum & Bass. The song almost defies description, as thinking about all of its elements almost makes it seem unreal. вЂњBombs Over Baghdad,вЂќ could have only ever been recorded by the group. Some of the tracks on the project are unlike anything IвЂ™d ever heard before, but still sound uniquely Southern, and moreover, uniquely OutKast.ДЇor example, вЂњB.O.B.вЂќ a.k.a. Their previous album turned heads with songs like вЂњLiberationвЂќ and вЂњSpottieOttieDopaliscious,вЂќ both considered pretty far outside the realm of what most major label rap groups would sound like. Much like the Aquemini sessions, OutKast experimented with a lot of musical styles while recording Stankonia. Meanwhile, AndrГ© 3000 went more out there, incorporating more singing into his delivery and getting even more abstract in his approach to their subject matter. On the mic, Big Boi remained the workman of the group, utilizing his deep southern drawl and straightforward approach to rhyming. As a unit, they handled most of the albumвЂ™s production on their own, bringing in many local musicians to play on the album to help achieve their vision. DJ (the groupвЂ™s longtime DJ) to form Earthtone III. The set-up allowed the group to flourish, as the pair teamed with Mr. AndrГ© 3000 and Big Boi took a year to put together the project, no longer constrained by time limits and rental fees.

Rather than renting an outside studio, the pair purchased one of Bobby BrownвЂ™s recording studios in Atlanta, re-naming it Stankonia (I donвЂ™t know if the album or the studio name came first). All of its sprawl and ambition pays off, as Stankonia is among the best albums released in both the вЂ™00s and the entire 21st century.ДЄ big part of StankoniaвЂ™s lore has to do with the recording process.

But in 2000, when other Southern rappers were making music for their audience to вЂњbounceвЂќ to, OutKast were again expanding its scope and sound, taking its audience on yet another reality-altering journey. OutKast had helped to first put the Atlanta hip-hop scene on the map, and it had grown and flourished in the years that followed. Stankonia is hard to describe, existing as a fever dream mash-up of countless musical styles and elements, but still feeling like a hip-hop album. But with Stankonia, their fourth album released two decades ago, they went places no other hip-hop group was expected to go, and precious few have even attempted to go since. In tributes to ATLiens (1996) and Aquemini (1998), we here at Albumism have chronicled how the group evolved, becoming nearly unrecognizable from its earliest incarnation. After releasing their breakthrough debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik in 1994, вЂњAndrГ© 3000вЂќ Benjamin and Antwan вЂњBig BoiвЂќ Patton went from young and brash southern hip-hop junkies to one of the most iconic groups on the planet. What a strange voyage OutKast took in the first six or seven years of its existence.

Happy 20th Anniversary to OutKastвЂ™s fourth studio album Stankonia, originally released October 31, 2000.

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