Show love for Outkast

I know there's a lot of hip-hop haters on this forum, so kindly keep it to yourself. This thread is for those of us who can look past the Master P's and Jay Z's of the world and see the true geniuses of the genre, and if I and The Onion are to be trusted on this, then Big Boi and Andre 3000 are the McCartney and Lennon of hip-hop, and the new album is their White Album. Normally I avoid mainstream hip-hop like the plague, but I got the new album, and it's utterly wonderful. The hip hop world needs a lot more Outkast's and a lot fewer 50 Cent's and Nelly's.

I hate almost all rap and hip-hop, but for some reason I love Outkast.

Or at least the limitations imposed upon it by marketing execs and the MTV set. There was a time when hip hop was as dangerous and status quo demolishing as punk in its heyday, and rock n roll at its inception, but much like every other genre of music, it's mainstream representatives are gutless whores only out to make a buck.

If the new album is their White Album, than surely Stankonia was their Sgt Peppers, and Aquemini their Revolver.

http://launch.yahoo.com/musicvideos/player/default.asp?videoID=1091930

Outkast is at or around the top of the heap.

Outcasts are one of the few who keep the true soul of hip-hop alive.


Also, you should take a look at Mos Def and Talib Kweli. Just look at the lyrics to "Thieves in The Night."

Nevermind, I'm about to post them in a separate thread.

"War"

Now get the fuck up off me nigga..


As I, struggle to keep my balance and composure
I'm 'posed ta, propose a toast to players on every coast-a
The lyrical roller coaster, mind-bender
'Stead of watchin these sucker MC's
I'm seein just how they lyin to the general population
Don't be patient, get up and stand up for your life
Don't you agree or understand we lost some rights at 1-1-9?
Come dumb, come young, come blind unwind confined
to the situation, we facin, cause in time, tick tick boom


Tick, boom.. tick, tick-boom
Tick, boom.. tick, tick-boom
Tick, boom.. tick, tick-boom
Tick, boom.. tick, tick-boom





When will we all, awake up out this dream
Come here and smell the Folgers, the soldiers are human beings
Man actin as if he was the supreme bein
Clockin the souls of men out like he was G-O-D and
W-A-Rrah, there'll be no tomorrow but sorrow
and horror will follow the hollow hearts battle for dollars
Politicians, modern day magicians
Physicians of death, more health care for poor health
Who makin us ill, they makin us kill
That's makin me spill my guts (chill Big, lay in the cut)
For what? I refuse to sit in the backseat and get handled
Like I do nuttin all day but sit around watch the Cartoon Channel
I rap about, the Presidential election and the scandal
that followed, and we all watched the nation, as it swallowed
and chalked it up, basically America you got FUCKED
The media shucked and jived now we stuck - damn!





Operation Anaconda - ask yourself
was it full of bleeps and blunders, did they ever find Osama?
And why in the fuck did Daniel Pearl have to pay the price
for his life and his wife plead twice?
See Al-Amin got life and Fred got dead, Hampton
To dampen the dream of all the Panthers
They got they answer for ransom
As we read together, as we dream together
Count your blessings whenever you feel that things won't be no better
But it got to, you gave me this microphone so I must rock you
Your brainwaves, airwaves, energized and SHOCKED you
Y'all got me, well I got y'all, long as I know y'all listenin
I'ma always bring food for thought to the table in the kitchen
Now eat nigga!

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/outkast/war.html

whole world

Okay, Big Boi's side, Speakerboxx, IS AWESOME. The other disc, the Andre3000 one, SUCKS. That's just like a throwaway.

Thus speaks a huge Outkast fan who's loved them since Southernplayalistic came out.

Cat

those guys write some addictive hooks. I love outkast!