Stankonia

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D1. Published by Carl Mo Muzic/Gnat Booty/Chrysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc./Curbstone-LAILO Music/Cory Andrews Publishing Designee (ASCAP)/Goodie Mob/Chrysalis Music Inc. (BMI) Music Direct reserves the right to change the terms of this promotion or discontinue this offer at any time. Now everyone is welcome to any show we do, and we want people of all colors to be there, but it's not fair that promoters are setting it up so only white kids come to the show....Hip-hop was started in the ghetto...it wasn't shows with 600 white kids in college. The passion of being broke and trying to survive in the city - that's what hip-hop is. So if all the fans of that type of music are people who can't relate to the struggle, it becomes fraudulent." In one of the album’s most memorable moments, André defends the straight-up rap culture that Big Boi tends to embody: “I met a critic, I made her shit her draws/ She said she thought hip-hop was only guns and alcohol/ I said/ Oh hell naw!,’ but yet it’s that, too/ You can’t discrimi-hate cause you done read a book or two.”“It’s that, too” is the crucial part there. A more reductive rapper would’ve disavowed the guns and alcohol. André remembers that they’re crucial parts of a whole, even if they’re no longer the parts that speak to him. D3 Published by Gnat Booty/Chrysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/Goodie Mob/Chrysalis Music, Inc. (BMI)

C1 Recorded at Patchwork Recording & Stankonia Recording, Atlanta, GA. Mixed at The Dungeon & Stankonia Recording, Atlanta, GA Outkast must be one of the most consistent rap groups of all time. After they dropped the incredible Aquemini, expectations for their new album were rather high. The reception was very good and the album is still to be find on all kinds of best of lists, decade or otherwise. Stankonia even won them two Grammys (I suppose it doesn't really many a whole lot to the heads, but it sure looks good) and it went four times platinum. RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. Manufactured for Vinyl Me, Please by Sony Music Entertainment, 25 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010-8601. A6. Published by Gnat Booty/Chysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc./Aniyah's Music/J-Sweet Music/Cory Andrew Publishing Designee (ASCAP) B3. Published by Gnat Booty/Chysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc./Sincerely Success (ASCAP)/Tef Noize Publishing (BMI)

A6 Published by Gnat Booty/Chrysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc./Anyiah's Music/J-Sweet Music/Cory Andrew Publishing Designee (ASCAP) With the release of Stankonia, OutKast, despite their ordinary appearance on the cover, were no longer ordinary. They transcended to a superhero notoriety that went beyond hip-hop even though rap was still their medium. I can remember how it felt to grow up right outside of Atlanta, just 20 minute south of the major city, and feel how big they were getting. Their songs were everywhere; coming out of every kind of car, nodding the head of every kind of driver. No ceiling was high enough to contain them.

Lastly, Outkast released an HD version of their music video for “Rosa Parks” today (watch HERE) and last week, “The Way You Move” received the HD treatment as well (watch HERE).The hip-hop duo, who formed in 1992 and comprises of members André 3000 and Big Boi, have received six grammy nominations, sold over 25 million records, and more recently, were nominated for the coveted Songwriters Hall award. A2. Published by Gnat Booty/Chysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/Goodie Mob/Chrysalis Music(BMI) Big Boi's mindset was probably along the lines of that of rap trio The Perceptionists. During an interview with Urb Magazine, the group commented on their mostly white audiences at shows: It's funny, layered and (gasp) open minded. One of my favorite things about Outkast is their ability and willingness to approach subjects that are simply "not cool" and in doing so they make such a powerful argument that pop culture is forced to rethink their ill advised preconceptions. I mean let's face it, in the year 2000 Andre becomes a national sex icon and if this album is any evidence of his intentions (ensuring that the sexin' is dope for everyone involved [and shaming those selfish bastards who couldn't be bothered otherwise]) then this is more than a hot pop record. It's aimed directly at pop culture en masse and fires away with bullets of wisdom, kindness and bravado. This is the moment that Outkast begins to prove themselves as great songwriters not just club shakers. Stankonia was an actual place, though it wasn’t seven light years away from the “B.O.B.” video shoot. After the success of their third album Aquemini, OutKast moved out of the Dungeon. They bought their own studio, the place that had formerly been known as Bobby Brown’s Bosstown, and they spent a year experimenting and tinkering and honing and perfecting, coming up with a sound that was at least a couple light years removed from what everyone else in rap was doing. Rap music had effectively colonized the pop mainstream years before Stankonia arrived, but OutKast saw something else happening — the pop mainstream colonizing rap music. “They’re real comfortable out there right now,” Big Boi told SPIN. “Nobody’s hungry anymore.” OutKast were still hungry.

Outkast has also just uncovered a brand new animated music video for “SpottieOttieDopaliscious.” Watch HERE. An epic 25 years in the making, the visual unfolds as a feast of seventies-inspired funk style, stoned psychedelic space meandering, and inimitable Afrofuturism directed by OK Motion Club. The clip follows its main character through an otherworldly nightlife “fever dream” where even the smallest move makes a big difference on the board… Celebrating two decades since the release of their fourth studio album, 'Stankonia', Atlanta hip-hop duo Outkast have revealed details of a anniversary release on vinyl. I'm more interested in analyzing the climate in which this album was recorded. Or, probably more so, the mindset of Andre and Big Boi when this album was recorded. I know that they weren't really listening to rap much at the time, as the genre "was getting real comfortable". But I imagine that some dilemmas arose. I vaguely remember reading about the disagreements between the two ("N*ggas don't like when you change your voice like that") and how that led to the solo albums three years later and the long period of inactivity as a duo since (minus Idlewild), but I can't help but wonder how it came to that.More ambitious and hook driven then their debut album, 2000's Stankonia is a trippy sort of technopsychedelic funk. Blending elements of hip-hop, alternative rap, southern rap and dirty south music with electronica and psychedelia earned the duo critical acclaim and broad audience appeal. B3 Published by Gnat Booty/Chrysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc./Sincerely Success (ASCAP)/Tef Noize Publishing (BMI) SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT’S CERTIFIED TO RELEASE OUTKAST’S AQUEMINI 25 TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION& SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW 20 TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION ON LIMITED VINYL A2 Published by Gnat Booty/Chrysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/Goodie Mob/Chrysalis Music (BMI)

co-producer 20, keyboards 5, 6, 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, producer 1, 2, 5, 6, 10-12, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, arranger 1, 2, 5, 6, 10-12, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, programming 5 D1 Published by Carl Mo Muzic/Gnat Booty/Chrysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc./Curbstone-LAILO Music/Cory Andrews Publishing Designee (ASCAP)/Goodie Mob/Chrysalis Music Inc. (BMI) Do remember, this is André and Big Boi six years and three albums into their music careers. At 25 years old, the former high school classmates-turned-rap partners were no longer the babyface pupils discovered, groomed, and developed in the early 1990s by Atlanta production trio Organized Noize. The pair entered the year 2000 no longer coming-of-age, but two fully grown men with acclaim from critics, the support of radio, visibility on television, two Platinum albums, and a Grammy nomination for “Rosa Parks,” the lead single off Aquemini. All accomplished without minimizing their Southern individuality in a hip-hop still dominated by rappers from the East and West coasts.

B.O.B.” exemplifies how lively Stankonia is. As the album’s first single, the rollercoaster record brought to mainstream radio a stampeding, drum & bass tempo that’s not just fast, but electric, a lightning bolt personified. Some might say “B.O.B.” defies definition, but it’s a rap song, aggressively hip-hop, and the arrangement molded their hyper-focused lyricism in a candy-painted world with a chanting choir, glitchy synths, howling guitars, and dynamic percussion. Music that sounds like it was shot out of a cannon. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, released on September 23rd, 2003, also included historic singles. Both “Hey Ya!” and “The Way You Move” captured #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the album itself debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. It received a rare Diamond-certification from the RIAA and took home “Album of the Year, ” “Best Rap Album, ” and “Best Urban/Alternative Performance” for “Hey Ya!” at the GRAMMY® Awards. C1. Published by Organized Noize Music/Goodie Mob Music/Chrysalis/Lil' Bree Music (BMI)/Gnat Booty/Chysalis Music, Inc./Slic Flo Music (ASCAP)