![]() ![]() ![]() Jackson’, was their first to reach number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but I’m sure you would be hard-pressed to find another album with such an eclectic fusion of genres. In fact, to call it pop at all is really a gross oversimplification. To me though, these are both quite reductive ways of viewing the album – for all its creative merit and cultural significance, to brush it off as ‘just’ OutKast’s pop album seems slightly narrow-minded. ![]() It’s often referred to as OutKast’s more ‘pop-y’ album, and is also frequently cited as the album where creative differences between Big Boi and André first became apparent something which becomes much more pronounced in the group’s later work. So, after going through their smooth, laidback debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (a mouthful, I know, but also a title that completely and faithfully describes the spirit of the album), their 1996 sophomore ATLiens, with its ambitious fusion of Dirty Southern hip-hop with outer-space aesthetics, and the 1998 Aquemini, a musical tour-de-force, I arrived at their fourth studio album: Stankonia. Now this is no significant event for me as they’re one of my favourite artists and, for me to find myself as I did this week, listening through their discography in sequence is not out of the ordinary. This week I have been listening to OutKast a lot. ![]()
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