The Hey Ya video featuring Andre3000 is now online... You can catch it here, at Launch.com
The pic above is from the new URB magazine, 'kast is on the cover looking so fresh and so clean... for more, check out the URB site: click here
Outkast keeps things light and catchy on the double single that previews its double album due in October. Big Boi's "The Way You Move" (Arista) has an airy, Earth Wind and Fire-like chorus between his fast-talking come-ons. But for music and wit, André 3000's "Hey Ya" prevails. The track rivals Beck as it mutates from handclapping folk-rock to electro, while the lyrics make their way from the pain of a couple's breakup to a quick rebound: "Don't want to meet your daddy/ just want you in my Caddy." While Big Boi and Andre 3000 are splitting the album, they agree on their first priority: lust.
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Here's a short review of Hey Ya from Pitchforkmedia, an indie rock website.
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From SOHH.com:
Andre 3000 and Big Boi of Outkast are back with the first-ever double solo albums, Speakerboxxx (Big Boi) / The Love Below (Andre 3000). On Wednesday, BET's Aceess Granted will be on the set of each video shoots for Dre's "Hey Ya" and Big Boi's "The Way You Move," and will also debut the world premiere of each new video. The double-solo LP will be out September 23rd featuring guest appearances by Jay-Z, The Dungeon Family, Bubba Sparxxx, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz, actress Rosario Dawson and multi-Grammy winner Norah Jones.
SOHH.com : The Hip-Hop SWAT : 2003.08.25
Outkast, Biz Markie and a host of NBA stars are set to join New York Knicks' Shandon Anderson August 29-31st, to help launch his philanthropic endeavor, The Shandon Anderson Foundation.
* André 3000 on the group's beginnings: "Our very first name was Two Shades Deep and my first rap name was Black Wolf. He was Black Dog."
* Big Boi on the group's creative process: "Music is a common bond Dré and I share. And we can make it good without necessarily being in the same room."
* André 3000 on Erykah Badu, mother of his 5 year-old son: "I think she's a great person. But I don't think she's the one for me…I think it would be better for another person to motivate her to do certain things."
* Big Boi on the new Speakerboxxx/The Love Below album: "Put 'em together, they make this. But take 'em apart? Damn, it's still crazy!"
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Speakerboxxx track list, according to Arista Records:
* "Bowtie" (featuring Jazze Pha and Sleepy Brown)
* "Oh No" (featuring Bubba Sparxxx and BackBone)
* "Church" (featuring Sleepy Brown)
* "The Way You Move" (featuring Sleepy Brown)
* "Do Dirty" (featuring Killer Mike)
* "Reset" (featuring Khujo and Cee-Lo)
* "Ghetto Music"
* "Last Call" (featuring Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz and Slimm Calhoun)
* "The Rooster"
* "Unhappy"
* "Knowing" (featuring Andre)
* "Flip Flop" (featuring Jay-Z and Killer Mike)
* "Rats & Roaches" (featuring Andre)
* "808" (featuring Bun B)
Tons of more info about the album and Outkast on MTV.com today. The link below:
MTV.com - News -Outkast 'Flip Flop' With Jay-Z, Rosario Dawson Climbs In Dre's 'Lap'
In the comments section our man B. Ocean drops the lyrics to Ghettomusick...
Whoo (Whoo)
Tie me up, don’t tie me down
Cut me up, don’t let me down
Find, find a way
Find a way to get out, wit out, hit out
You dig in, dig out, you get out,
Ghettomusick, ghettomusick
Find a way to get in, to fit in the ghetto
You get out, wit out a dime
Ghettomusick, ghettomusick
Climbing out this hole
With a frown on my face
In the place to be, and not to be at the same time
G-h-e-t-t-o-m-u-s-i-c-k stay down
O-u-t-k-a-s-t just know that we won’t play round
If it don’t stank like they stank then they can’t swallow dat down
Your battleship is sunk, I wish grandma could see us
Find a way to get out, wit out, hit out
You dig in, dig out, you get out,
Ghettomusick, ghettomusick
Find a way to get in, the fit in the ghetto
You get out, wit out a dime
Ghettomusick, ghettomusick
I just want you to know, how I feel
Feeling good, feeling great
Feeling great, feeling good, how are you?
I just want you to know, how I feel
Feeling good feeling great
Feeling great, feeling good, how are you?
Hot tub add to the bony of tony
As my grandma my (….) here and she show me
How to be the smooth operator, dominator in the state of Georgia,
Hip hops there to destroy ya
Leave a mother fucker open like a foyer
He from the dirt now here come the paranoia
Although you couldn’t have jacked the disrespect
The technique, sweat meet, wipe off the sweat
Fight off the shit and bust the waste down
The pipes of my live flow deep into the ground
Why my purpose on the surface of this earth is
Plan it, standards, trust and the purpose
Campaign in vein for the same lame fame, people obtain, you aught to be detained
By the hip hop sheriff, locked up, no possibility of getting out cause the shit you make is killing me and my ears, and my peers, I hear the end is near, no fear
we disappear, then reappear again in a fresh new light, I hope its beautiful and cloudy casue if its not we gotta fight like, fight like
*chorus
Outkast's Big Boi Shoots 'Artsy Fartsy' Clip With Magical Hottie Mechanics
Outkast were their usual cool and sophisticated selves Monday on the set of Big Boi's new video, except when asked about the concept of the clip. Then they could only speak in adjectives and, well, names of drugs.
"Abstract artsy fartsy ghetto classy sophisticated psyched-out mushrooms acid crack rock cocaine," Big Boi answered in his southern drawl.
"Women, speakers and boxes," added Andre 3000, on hand for his cameo in the video.
2 Brand New Kast Tracks are linked by Stank On It member Aesop. Download them, listen, then Stank On It and let us know what you think.
Stankonia.com Stank Board : SPEAKERBOX/LOVEBELOW First REVIEW!!
This is a reprint of a long review that appeared on OkayPlayer.com