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Spacey like a voyage on George Clinton's mothership and earthy like Georgia's red-clay soul, Outkast's third album Aquemini established their hometown of Atlanta as the preeminent hip hop Mecca of the late '90s. Rooting their raps in the sound pioneered by production gurus Organized Noize, rappers Andre and Big Boi dropped righteous rhymes on everyday Southern life in a deeply drawled, robo-flow that's somehow tougher than leather and smooth as silk. Cuts like "Aquemini" and "Syntheziser" found a spine-tingling middle-ground between laid-back G-funk and ominous, sci-fi futurism, but it was the rambunctious bustle and gutbucket grooves of "Rosa Parks" and "Skew It On the Bar-B" that flipped the lids of hip hop fans all over the country. Aided by live, soul instrumentation, gospel choirs, and cameos by Erykah Badu and Goodie Mob's Cee Lo, Aquemini is a rich, prideful, intelligent record and, possibly, the most inventive hip hop vision of the late '90s.
CONDITION:NEW! DRILLED CASE!
TRACK LISTINGS
1 Hold on, Be Strong
2 Return of the "G"
3 Rosa Parks
4 Skew It on the Bar-B
5 Aquemini
6 Synthesizer
7 Slump
8 West Savannah
9 Da Art of Storytellin', Pt. 1
10 Da Art of Storytellin', Pt. 2
11 Mamacita
12 Spottieottiedopaliscious
13 Y'All Scared
14 Nathaniel
15 Liberation
16 Chonkyfire
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