why yaw hating on stankonia?
Classics Discussion: OutKast
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why yaw hating on stankonia?
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
De La Soul is Dead and Southernplaya should be on the list with an asterisk
what purpose would that serve though?
It would make me feel better
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
It would make me feel better
I can't add them to the list but at the end of the process I'll do a short-list of albums that didn't quite make the cut, and so far I've got DLSID and Southernplaya
big boi has said this actually started with aquemini.Their first 3 albums are classic, and anybody that thinks otherwise
Regarding Stakonia, it was believed that they stopped working together on the album halfway through, with each recording in different studios. I voted it a classic but then had to think about it; it had classic songs and you can tell the songs where the cohesion was there (secret - listen to the singles) but that album was all over the place. I will still say that if Stankonia is considered your worst album (yet the album to get the most critical acclaim), you did something right.
Now, I know Speakerboxxx/Love Below is considered an Outkast album (and the one that brought them Album of the Year at the Grammy's), being a fan, I can't consider that an Outkast album. It was 2 solo albums masked as a double album. I still bumped it 2 years straight. (Spread was one of my theme songs during my savage years
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Abstract83
Superstar
I know i chose all 5. Ima just be honest for me the classics are
ATLiens
Stankonia
I like the crazy experimental Outkast when they're rapping together.
SouthernPlayalistic was a great album
I love Aquemini but i wasnt too crazy about it. Had some bangers though.
Speakerboxxx/Love Below were great albums but not classics. Im going off my personal feelings towards the albums honestly.
ATLiens
Stankonia
I like the crazy experimental Outkast when they're rapping together.
SouthernPlayalistic was a great album
I love Aquemini but i wasnt too crazy about it. Had some bangers though.
Speakerboxxx/Love Below were great albums but not classics. Im going off my personal feelings towards the albums honestly.
It's hard to say. But I think anything that doesn't have that raw 'merry-go-round' looping feel is going outside hip hop. That, after all, is the core of the genre's sound. When the beat starts going all over the place, it kills the merry-go-round energy and starts sounding like quiet storm, jazz, or whatever genre it's trying to imitate.
Let's take "Liberation" for example. shyt doesn't sound like hip hop to me.
In general, I'm iffy on live instrumentation. The whole point of hip hop is sampling through turntable culture. So someone replaying songs whole with no 'manipulation' reeks of devolving, as opposed to evolving hip hop.
Mike the Executioner
What went on up there? Poppers and weird sex!
@Inspect Her Deck
@mobbinfms
I personally want to thank you guys for making Classic Discussions a thing. I'm being put on to all this great music that I haven't been interested in listening to before. I started listening to Southernplayalistic, and after "Ain't No Thang," I had a reaction on my face. I'm not even halfway done, but this LP deserved classic status.
@mobbinfms
I personally want to thank you guys for making Classic Discussions a thing. I'm being put on to all this great music that I haven't been interested in listening to before. I started listening to Southernplayalistic, and after "Ain't No Thang," I had a
reaction on my face. I'm not even halfway done, but this LP deserved classic status.
@Inspect Her Deck
@mobbinfms
I personally want to thank you guys for making Classic Discussions a thing. I'm being put on to all this great music that I haven't been interested in listening to before. I started listening to Southernplayalistic, and after "Ain't No Thang," I had a
Was bumping that album on my way back from the grocery store, driving ten miles below the speed limit with Crumbling Erb blasting.
Couldn't nobody tell me shyt about nothing
Dirty D
Vikes & Raptors 4 Life
@Inspect Her Deck are you planning to do a UGK thread? They've got 2 classics in my book...
Farrinto
Who's the best MCs? Biggie, Jay-Z, and Nas
you think k-rino has classics and not outkast. FOH
"Imagination" is a classic though
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
Was bumping that album on my way back from the grocery store, driving ten miles below the speed limit with Crumbling Erb blasting.
Couldn't nobody tell me shyt about nothing
Another 1
Absolutely. Maybe day after tomorrow!
@Inspect Her Deck
@mobbinfms
I personally want to thank you guys for making Classic Discussions a thing. I'm being put on to all this great music that I haven't been interested in listening to before. I started listening to Southernplayalistic, and after "Ain't No Thang," I had a
You are most welcome sir
Yup, I'd even say 3 (Ridin Dirty and Underground Kingz obvsl, plus Super Tight)
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
Southernplaya not a classic? How? That shyt better get the 80%... 
What the fukk? The production may not be as polished as ATLiens and is more funk and bass driven, the parallel between Andre and Big Boi wasn't set. But these nikkas took you to Atlanta, the same way Nas took you to Queensbridge on Illmatic.
Don't you nikkas comprehend it's much deeper than Cadillacs?
The coming of age topics (Andre talking about taking the SAT's and whether he'd graduate high school and shyt), black on black violence on Crumblin' Erb, the themes of empowerment and upliftment through. The depictions of the A and Southern pride overall.
The album with Git Up Git Out, Ain't No Thang, Call of da Wild, Players Ball ain't a classic. The whole South got something to say comes from Kast winning new group pf the year off the strength of this album. This album helped put the South on the map.
I don't know why nikkas say ATLiens is better. Southernplaya is a true classic and their best album.
What the fukk? The production may not be as polished as ATLiens and is more funk and bass driven, the parallel between Andre and Big Boi wasn't set. But these nikkas took you to Atlanta, the same way Nas took you to Queensbridge on Illmatic.
Don't you nikkas comprehend it's much deeper than Cadillacs?
The coming of age topics (Andre talking about taking the SAT's and whether he'd graduate high school and shyt), black on black violence on Crumblin' Erb, the themes of empowerment and upliftment through. The depictions of the A and Southern pride overall.
The album with Git Up Git Out, Ain't No Thang, Call of da Wild, Players Ball ain't a classic. The whole South got something to say comes from Kast winning new group pf the year off the strength of this album. This album helped put the South on the map.
I don't know why nikkas say ATLiens is better. Southernplaya is a true classic and their best album.
Inspect Her Deck
Skins of all colours come together as brothers
Southernplaya not a classic? How? That shyt better get the 80%...
What the fukk? The production may not be as polished as ATLiens and is more funk and bass driven, the parallel between Andre and Big Boi wasn't set. But these nikkas took you to Atlanta, the same way Nas took you to Queensbridge on Illmatic.
Don't you nikkas comprehend it's much deeper than Cadillacs?
The coming of age topics (Andre talking about taking the SAT's and whether he'd graduate high school and shyt), black on black violence on Crumblin' Erb, the themes of empowerment and upliftment through. The depictions of the A and Southern pride overall.
The album with Git Up Git Out, Ain't No Thang, Call of da Wild, Players Ball ain't a classic. The whole South got something to say comes from Kast winning new group pf the year off the strength of this album. This album helped put the South on the map.
I don't know why nikkas say ATLiens is better. Southernplaya is a true classic and their best album.
voting is over bro, Southernplaya didn't break 80%
I agree with everything you said about the album, but ATLiens was still better because not only was there more individuality between the two members, but I felt the lyricism was better, they were more technical, their writing stepped up a notch etc. It was an upgrade in every way. ATLiens maybe didn't have the impact or isn't as important as their debut, but quality-wise it surpassed it for sure.