Outkast is gone but not forgotten. Or maybe it's forgotten but not gone. That's more like it, actually. The group -- perhaps the most important in Southern rap history, and certainly the most popular -- doesn't cast the shadow it did 10 years ago, or even 5. Its home city, Atlanta, has evolved styles at the rate of one or more a year, and...
ATLANTA ON a Thursday night in late May the rapper Big Boi was onstage inside the Yaarab Shrine Center here. Wearing a red Atlanta Braves hat, a black sweatshirt and sunglasses, he stalked back and forth as he worked briskly through songs from his coming album, ''Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty,'' the first under his own name after...
JOB losses, gas prices, the health care crisis: these aren't the usual agenda items for a mainstream hip-hop single. But they all play a role in ''Sumthin's Gotta Give,'' from the forthcoming solo album by Big Boi of OutKast. And they aren't the only issues raised. The album -- ''Sir Luscious Leftfoot ... Son of Chico Dusty'' (LaFace/Zomba), due...
OutKast er en amerikansk hiphopduo fra Atlanta, Georgia som startede i 1991. Oprindeligt var duoens musikstil en blanding af stilarterne Dirty South og G-Funk, men de har siden blandet elementer ind fra andre musikstile som funk, soul, pop, elektronika og jazz. Duoen består af André «André 3000» Benjamin (tidligere kendt under navnet «Dre») og Antwan «Big Boi» Patton.
OutKast(både André 3000 og Big Boi) er på en 13. plads over de rigeste i hip hop-industrien og tjente over 14 millioner dollar i 2006.
OutKast er en af tidernes mest sælgende hiphop-grupper og har solgt over 20 millioner eksemplarer af sine 7 album. Dobbeltalbummet Speakerboxxx/The Love Below fra 2003 har alene solgt over 10 millioner eksemplarer og er et af 4 hiphop-album som har solgt til diamant i USA. For albummet og singelen «Hey Ya!» fik bandet 3 Grammy-priser i 2004, blandt andet Album of the Year (årets album). Fold ud