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One of the most innovative and successful groups in hip-hop, OutKast have achieved worldwide commercial success while maintaining artistic credibility. Having sold more than 20 million records over the last 14 years, both members have also now branched out into film acting.At a time when experimentation is taboo in most overground rap, that’s all Outkast seem intent on executing. Firstly, this double CD has no cohesive link, other than the fact that it sounds like a pair of solo albums stitched together to demo exactly how Andre’s yin works to augment Big Boi’s yang. Andre 3000’s Love Below disc rates as the more eclectic of the two, given that he’s turned in his emcee credentials to become a full-on funk-soul-jazz vocalist who mostly sings about items of love ("Happy Valentine's Day"), carnal lust ("Spread"), and female adoration ("Prototype"). Minus the big band schmaltz of "Love Hater" and cheesy cover jobs ("My Favorite Things"), Andre’s disc is sick (meaning great). As is to be expected, the Big Boi disc is less arty, more gangsta and worldly, and features the less-progressive guest raps of ATL crunk purveyors Lil’ Jon and The Eastside Boyz ("Last Call") and Jay-Z who rhymes the hook on "Flip Flop Rock". Unlike Big Boi, Andre keeps his collabos to a minimum, once crooning alongside Norah Jones on the cool yet sappy "Take Off Your Cool", and once with Kelis. Boi fulfills his Dungeon Family duty with flying colors by flipping some dirty southern up-tempo raps over electro beats on "GhettoMusick". By the time Cee-Lo sermonizes on "Reset", Speakerboxx and Love Below rate mostly as majestic and inspiring, with the remaining 23 per cent being just plain incredible.
Condition:NEW. Drilled case
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Intro 1:29
2 Ghetto Musick 3:56
3 Unhappy 3:19
4 Bowtie / Sleepy Brown 3:56
5 The Way You Move / Sleepy Brown 3:54
6 The Rooster 3:57
7 Bust / Killer Mike 3:08
8 War 2:43
9 Church 3:27
10 Bamboo (Interlude) 2:09
11 Tomb of the Boom / Konkrete 4:46
12 E-Mac (Interlude) 0:24
13 Knowing 3:32
14 Flip Flop Rock / Killer Mike 4:35
15 Interlude 1:15
16 Reset / Khujo Goodie 4:35
17 D-Boi (Interlude) 0:40
18 Last Call / Mello 3:57
19 Bowtie (Postlude) 0:34
Disc 2
1 The Love Below (Intro) 1:27
2 Love Hater 2:49
3 God (Interlude) 2:20
4 Happy Valentine's Day 5:23
5 Spread 3:51
6 Where Are My Panties? 1:54
7 Prototype 5:26
8 She Lives in My Lap / Rosario Dawson 4:27
9 Hey Ya! 3:55
10 Roses 6:09
11 Good Day, Good Sir 1:24
12 Behold a Lady 4:37
13 Pink & Blue 5:04
14 Love in War 3:25
15 She's Alive 4:06
16 Dracula's Wedding / Kelis 2:32
17 My Favorite Things / Norah Jones 5:13
18 Take Off Your Cool 2:38
19 Vibrate 6:33
20 A Life in the Day of Benjam
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