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To call OutKast's follow-up to their 2000 masterpiece Stankonia the most eagerly awaited hip-hop album of the new millennium may be hyperbole, but not by much. In its kaleidoscopic, deep-fried amalgam of Dirty South, dirty funk, techno, and psychedelia, Stankonia was fearlessly exploratory and giddy with possibilities. It was hard to imagine where the duo was going to go next, but one possibility that few entertained was that Big Boi and Andre 3000 would split apart, each recording an album on his own and then releasing the pair as the fifth OutKast album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, in the fall of 2003. Although both albums have their own distinct character, the effect is kind of like if the Beatles issued The White Album as one LP of Lennon tunes, the other of McCartney songs -- the individual records may be more coherent, but the illusion that the group can do anything is tarnished. By isolating themselves from each other, Big Boi and Andre 3000 diminish the idea of OutKast slightly, since the focus is on the individuals, not the group. Which, of course, is part of the point of releasing solo albums under the group name -- it's to prove that the two can exist under the umbrella of the OutKast aesthetic while standing as individuals.
CONDITION:NEW! DRILLED CASE!
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Intro
2 Ghetto Musick
3 Unhappy
4 Bowtie / Sleepy Brown
5 The Way You Move / Sleepy Brown
6 The Rooster
7 Bust / Killer Mike
8 War / Killer Mike
9 Church
10 Bamboo (Interlude)
11 Tomb of the Boom / Konkrete
12 E-Mac (Interlude)
13 Knowing
14 Flip Flop Rock / Killer Mike
15 Interlude
16 Reset / Khujo Goodie
17 D-Boi (Interlude)
18 Last Call / Mello
19 Bowtie (Postlude)
Disc 2
1 The Love Below (Intro)
2 Love Hater
3 God (Interlude)
4 Happy Valentine's Day
5 Spread
6 Where Are My Panties?
7 Prototype
8 She Lives in My Lap / Rosario Dawson
9 Hey Ya!
10 Roses
11 Good Day, Good Sir
12 Behold a Lady
13 Pink & Blue
14 Love in War
15 She's Alive
16 Dracula's Wedding / Kelis
17 My Favorite Things / Norah Jones
18 Take Off Your Cool
19 Vibrate
20 A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete)
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