If you are a cultured person then you probably already know the deal with OutKast, or at least you've heard 'Hey Ya!' before in passing, but well we will help you get beyond that. I don't personally think there has been another act to repeatedly push the boundaries of hip hop the way the combined powers of Big Boi and Andre 3000 have, building up a rock-solid discography of straight classics in the process. From being really the FIRST to legitimize Southern hip hop as commercially and artistically viable on Southernplayalisticadillcmuzik (1994), to veering off into new introspective and extraterrestrial directions on ATLiens (1996), to the SOULFUL experimentality that pervades the five-mic-rated Aquemini (1998), to finally -- FINALLY -- Stankonia, the Kast's 2000 mainstream breakthrough that was all-over-the-place enough to bring them to heights most acts could only dream of reaching! That album is crazy! There was stuff that came after that, but after becoming the biggest band in the world, or maybe because of it, the duo's dynamic was never again the same; ultimately their friendly implosion was right around the corner. Anyway doe, there is a reason why here in 2014, more than a decade on, the world is still hanging on the prospect of a comeback.
This is why resident hip hop head Ainsworth and I are bringing to you the chance to relive the journey! We'll be rating those first four albums + three bonus entires — for a total of FIFTY EIGHT songs — track-by-track, in hopes of finding the PINNACLE of their discography! The songs by album are outlined below; your job as Kastmen is to assign each one a score between 0 and 10 and PM your ratings to me. I'm thinking three weeks is a good amount of time to allow for this, making for a deadline of July 2nd (edited to add: HAHAHAHAHAHA), but I can be flexible so hmmm?
Myintrotoletuknow
Ain't No Thang
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Call of da Wild
Player's Ball
Claimin' True
Funky Ride
Git Up, Git Out
Crumblin' Erb
Hootie Hoo
D.E.E.P.
Player's Ball (Reprise)
Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)
ATLiens
Wheelz of Steel
Jazzy Belle
Elevators (Me & You)
Ova da Wudz
Babylon
Wailin'
Mainstream
Decatur Psalm
Millennium
E.T. (Extraterrestrial)
13th Floor / Growing Old
Return of the "G"
Rosa Parks
Skew It on the Bar-B
Aquemini
Synthesizer
Slump
West Savannah
Da Art of Storytellin' (Pt. 1)
Da Art of Storytellin' (Pt. 2)
Mamacita
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
Y'all Scared
Liberation
Chonkyfire
Gasoline Dreams
So Fresh, So Clean
Ms. Jackson
Snappin' & Trappin'
Spaghetti Junction
I'll Call Before I Come
B.O.B.
Xplosion
We Luv Deez Hoez
Humble Mumble
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Red Velvet
Gangsta ****
Toilet Tisha
Slum Beautiful
Stankonia (Stanklove)
The Whole World
International Players Anthem
Royal Flush
NOTES
• As good as some may be, I tried to remove any interludes to the effect where our remaining tracks are ones featuring just combinations of Big and Thou. But let me know if I cut out something vital or if anything remaining needs to go.
#justice for Kim & Cookie #justice for CRUISIN in the ATL
• There's a lot of interlude stuff going on towards the tail ends of most of the Aquemini tracks that may annoy or distract, so my advice for you would just be to cut through that and focus on the MUSIC only in those cases.
Yaaaaas bitches !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I live !!!!!!!!!!! Finally we stan for some reall ****in talent on here!!!!!! I be sending my rates in asap !!!!
Yaaaaas bitches !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I live !!!!!!!!!!! Finally we stan for some reall ****in talent on here!!!!!! I be sending my rates in asap !!!!
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Originally posted by BVB4Lyf
Lady GaGa is a fat ass bitch. And I love this album so so much
nnn at this skipping over an entire critically acclaimed/Grammy-winning body of work, something else unfortunate and Three Stacks' "Int'l Players Anthem" and "Walk It Out (Remix)" verses.
nnn at this skipping over an entire critically acclaimed/Grammy-winning body of work, something else unfortunate and Three Stacks' "Int'l Players Anthem" and "Walk It Out (Remix)" verses.