#Hey ya outkast album cover full#
#Hey ya outkast album cover trial#

Nary a single solo record by any ex-Beatle or member of the Stones comes without the casual appearance of a fellow ex-Beatle or member of the Stones, or both.

#Hey ya outkast album cover trial#

Both feature guest stars (Big Boi ropes in Killer Mike, Ludacris, Jay-Z and Cee-Lo Benjamin has Norah Jones and Kelis) and вЂ“ so much for the trial separation вЂ“ each appears on the otherвЂ™s disc. Speakerboxx is Big Boi, whose modus operandi is to jam at home in LA for just under an hour The Love Below is Benjamin and runs for 78 minutes. Three years later, they returned with a double album, and not just a double album but two solo albums, one each.

Shame about the blunts and the loose women (вЂњHa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha we love deez hoezвЂќ), but enlightenment does not descend overnight.ДЄnd the pair hadnвЂ™t peaked. They claim to have deliberately stopped listening to hip hop in lieu of listening to rockвЂ™nвЂ™roll, soul and funk. Having invested in their own studio after album #3, the heat was off and theyвЂ™d allowed themselves a year to make Stankonia. Having left Q magazine, I may well have paid good money for the parent LP and I was sold on all 73 minutes of its contents: melodic, meaningful, not always languid, packed with diversity, hard to tear your ears from, and quadruple-platinum, Grammy-trousering successful. I heard the backmasked, social-realist, WagnerвЂ™s Wedding March-sampling Ms Jackson in October 2000 when it lolloped to number one in the US and two in the UK.

#Hey ya outkast album cover full#

Full marks if you were already following their origins story and could see it coming. Stankonia was neither OutKastвЂ™s debut album, nor their second, nor their third, but their fourth.

I got them in the year 2000, like most people did.

They went platinum before IвЂ™d ever heard of them, and I make no apology for that. As the industry craned for new sounds, new colours, new stars, the belated emergence of Southern hip-hop was inevitable, and two teens named AndrГ© Benjamin (вЂњAndre 3000вЂќ) and Antwan Patton (вЂњBig BoiвЂќ) emerged from a nascent scene in Atlanta, Georgia, funkier and more free-wheeling than the West Coast shoot-вЂ™em-up style and with an attractive drawl. The centre of gravity initially bounced from East coast to West, ricocheting between the South Bronx and South Central fairly constantly throughout the 80s, with gangsta rap eventually eclipsing New York and forging a new orthodoxy for the 90s based on questionable male sexual politics, the entrepreneurial and criminal accumulation of money, and fame and fortune for their own sake. The subculture that grew exponentially into a culture, or arguably the culture, was founded on the art of rapping, the overhaul of the traditional modus of the vinyl turntable, pre-digital sampling and a deep base of African-American heritage that would drive what started at local block parties into the mainstream, international arena. It is not with disdain or regret that David reports the death of rock, nor the ascension of hip hop, merely acknowledgement of fact. In his knockout book Uncommon People, the sage-like David Hepworth notes that вЂњthe age of the rock starвЂќ вЂ“ his chosen subject вЂ“ вЂњwas coterminous with rock and roll, which in spite of all the promises made in some memorable songs proved to be as finite as the era of ragtime or big bands.вЂќ His introduction concludes, вЂњThe rock era is over. Description: single track, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below