Players' Ball: Outkast Thread

pay your fuckin' beeper bill, bitch

 

Can't believe nobody posted these before as I always loved these two. I guess Outkast just has way too many fucking awesome songs.





Return of the Gangsta Thanks ta'
them niggas that think yall soft and say yall be gospel rappin'
but they be steady clapping when you talk about bitches & switches & hoes & clothes & weed
let's talk about time travelin, rhyme javelin, something mind unraveling get down

 

great weather in atlanta. cruise in the drop top and turn on that pimp shit.

 

been on an outkast kick lately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4toOfTN5OXM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf695qCJF5Q

 

Hell yeah on some ATLiens

 

ATLiens is probably my favorite rap album ever

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnn_uh263Zw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8YFcIM3rS4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZCwBQE5Bck

 

I'm sure y'all wouldn't mind me dropping this in here. It's kinda sorta related.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzvxYCDGFPc

 

1. Aquemini
2. ATLiens
3. SPCM
4. Stankonia
5. Speakerboxxx / TLB

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ZiiDi80ZE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtO-Z4Tx8Ss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPsM0-EBNt8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4UP46_DFzw

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTi1bk27KnY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a1yoPwhvnI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiBh_JinGbE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNIQyqL1ZaQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMRukxc-RXg

 

This is the correct order

 

Came to post this. Pretty great song from the often-forgot Idlewild.

 

smoove like a hot comb on nappy ass hair

 

They also bring the best out of guest stars:

 

Kast does, in fact, keep it jumpin' like kangaroos

 

Cant wait for the new Big Boi to drop

 

You're probably already up on these, but I'll post anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtMGKjZeT74
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV6EAOTGDhI

Bonus track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxIHNKugOkY

 

Love this thread.

Fav song is Git up, Git out

 

Big Boi

The Atlanta rap great on making apple bongs with Modest Mouse, his ambivalent feelings about President Obama, and his imminent second official solo album.


http://pitchfork.com/features/update/8998-big-boi/

Spoiler

Someone needs to bring Big Boi a soda. He touched down in New York mere hours ago, and instead of eating, showering, or sleeping, he's grinding out interviews in a windowless office at Def Jam's Manhattan headquarters. I am his fourth today. By the time I sit down, his lips are beginning to stick together, his voice is scratchy, and his soda request has acquired a Suicidal Tendencies-y edge.
Despite all this, he is cheerful. The night before, he completed his second solo album, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors-- third if you count his half of OutKast's diamond-sellingSpeakerboxxx/The Love Below-- and you can see in his face that he is still floating. "I feel like a champ," he declares. "I only slept on the plane; I was in the studio all night. I had to make some minor touches."
Big Boi: "Gossip" [ft. UGK and Big K.R.I.T.] (via SoundCloud)
His last album, 2010's Sir Lucious Left Foot, beat a famously protracted, halting path into the world. By contrast, VL&DR slid out effortlessly; during our chat, he repeats the word "fun" no less than 10 times when describing the record's creation. It features collaborators from the hip-hop world-- including T.I., kiD CuDi, B.o.B., A$AP Rocky, and Big K.R.I.T.-- as well as electr0-pop acts Little Dragon and Phantogram. You can sense that Big Boi is still marveling at his good fortune, but he still has a few labor pains: "This is the first time I've had to leave and not go to mastering. I can't see it all the way through, because I have to do all this media the next couple of days. So I'm like, 'Motherfuckers might try to turn the bongos up!'"

Pitchfork: Sir Lucious Left Foot was mythically difficult to put out into the world; now, two years later, like clockwork, Vicious Lies just pops up.
Big Boi: This is the fastest I've ever recorded an album. Sonically, it's the strongest. I got a chance to do everything I wanted to do. There were no hiccups; I made a call, things happened. When the label believes in the project, it makes the recording process smooth.
Pitchfork: Why do you feel like this your strongest album sonically?
BB: I'm doing a lot of different things with my voice, it's more melodic. The first song I started singing on was "Elevators", but this is the real singy-singy. I call it my funk throat-- I utilized a lot of my funk throat a lot on this album. And I had people to bounce off of, like Yukimi [Nagano, from Little Dragon], or Sarah [Barthel] or Josh [Carter] from Phantogram. Just really having fun, man, like Van Full of Pakistans. Every album has been an experimentation process. There are just different characters this time. Like, Yukimi's Aquarius, I'm Aquarius, Sarah's Aquarius-- there was a certain type of zodiac energy going on.
Pitchfork: What made you want to work with bands like Little Dragon and Phantogram?
BB: I had just finished working with Modest Mouse for their project, and after that I was like, "Man, I need to start doing this for my own shit." Just bringing people in. So we did. We would live day-in and day-out with people, go bowling, go out to eat, and then come back and record, watch a movie, record. It was like funk summer camp.

"Isaac Brock showed me how to make a bong out of an apple."​

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Pitchfork: What's happening with the stuff you did with Modest Mouse?
BB: It's for their record; it's coming. We actually took a trip back out there to go see them a couple months ago. I did maybe three records with them. Isaac [Brock] is cool, man, like cowboy cool. He showed me how to make a bong out of an apple and shit. For real.
Pitchfork: You've talked about wanting to collaborate with Kate Bush before, how's that going?
BB: It's coming, man. I talked to her on the phone. She's cool as hell-- I didn't know she said that many cuss words. I sent her a couple records, too, and she loved them. But I had a deadline at the time, and she was just getting her son into school. She wanted me to come to her, so I have to go to London. We just want to hang out for a while and vibe first. I didn't want to rush it. But she could've been on a couple songs from this album-- singing, playing, co-producing, whatever she wanted to do, I don't give a fuck.
Big Boi: "Mama Told Me" [ft. Kelly Rowland] (via SoundCloud)
Pitchfork: Do you ever feel strange about the relatively low visibility of these solo records as opposed to something like the media blitz that came aroundSpeakerboxxx/The Love Below?
BB: Nah, because I'm not a spotlight hog. I've been in the spotlight my whole life. I've sold 50 million records already. I'm diamond. The Super Bowl ring hand is full. As long as the people get the music, that's what I care about. I look at it this way: Music is basically free. Merchandise and concert tickets cost money. And I toured for two years off my last record, playing 100,000-seat festivals. So you don't have to be splashed all over the place for the listener to be able to find that shit. As long as the music's jamming, and people show up to the shows, that's what I like.

"It ain't all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period."​

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Pitchfork: You had a few things to say about Obama on Sir Lucious, but it was recorded before he became president. And there was your song "Sumthin's Gotta Give" with Mary J. Blige where she sang about cheering for Obama...
BB: I didn't tell her to do that.
Pitchfork: No? She just did it?
BB: On my damn record. I had a problem with it. I'm not pro-government at all, I'm pro-people. Our freedoms are getting taken away every day with things that people aren't aware of, like the [National Defense Authorization Act]. I don't care who the president is-- it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.
Pitchfork: Do you have any feelings about Obama's first term now that he's been re-elected?
BB: Nope. What did he do? They say he's trying to clean up a mess, right? Well, he needs abig-ass broom, and he gotta keep on sweeping. I ain't on nobody's team, you feel me? I'm about the American people.
Pitchfork: Have you ever thought about doing something like what Killer Mike did with R.A.P. Music and making an explicitly political record front-to-back?
BB: You could do it, if that's the way you're feeling. Mike has a lot on his chest, and he's definitely engaged in that arena; he's politically aware of a whole lot of different things. You can't tell him shit-- he's gonna speak it, and he talk that truth. Me and him jam out all the time. He's on this record as well. He slid in, last minute. The song is called "Tom Petty". It's not political at all, it's just fun, extravagant. Elite street shit is what I like to call it. I was about to call this album The Nigga Thrilla, because that shit is shocking.
Pitchfork: I read that you sent Andre five songs for this album, but he's not on it.
BB: Yeah. Shit, I just talked to him a couple of days ago. He's got contractual obligations. He's cool. Maybe next time around. I've got nine or 10 new songs already-- a whole stack of music I haven't gone through yet, beat-wise. It's a good start.

 

About to go listen to the new album in Stankonia Studios parking lot

 

http://www.grantland.com/blog/holly...-big-boi-on-vicious-lies-atlanta-and-jedi-rap

 

"Post the best Outkast songs"

Two pages later, every single Outkast song has been posted

 

I like how there's only one topic that can cause Clown Baby to get serious, and that's the music of Andre Benjamin and Antwan Patton

 

Agree. Im digging Shoes for Running.

 

Tight like hallways, smoked out always

 

This came through the playlist today and for some reason I had forgotten how much I love this track and their feature. Very underrated tune

 

Also wow I guess this isn’t the thread I’m used to posting in. Figured Clown Baby would have ownership of the premier Kast thread on site

 

Sometimes, we start threads and they take off. Sometimes, we just start threads

 

sorry my thread is better. Either way, I always get hopeful that a bump brings news related to more new music

 

I refuse to post in a bro thread.



Also

The Beatles could never

 

I miss them so much. They truly were cooler than a polar bear’s toenails.

 

The Beatles had 20 songs hit #1...they would have their A side at 1 and B side at 2.

Wut

 

And yet they still don’t have a three song run on a track list that fucks with that one

 

Apples to oranges but don't really see the point...Andre would acknowledge Beatles as a huge influence I'm sure

 

Bro, relax.

There was no shade in that half joking post, moreso respect that I chose the Beatles to make that point.

now stop ruining Clown Baby thread

 

I love OutKast