In his Vibe profile, New York Knick Jalen Rose says:
"I bump anything by the Lox…that's like family. I'm into lyricists. I like Cassidy, Beanie Sigel and Shyne. I'm bumping the Biggie Duets, Lil’ Wayne, Jeezy's hot, T.I. - he's hitting. I've always been a fan of Outkast’s earlier stuff. Eminem too."
Big Boi will release at least two albums this year on his Purple Ribbon custom label through Virgin. One of the releases will be an album by Bubba Sparxxx and the other will be a compilation by the Purple Ribbon All-Stars entitled "Big Boi Presents...Got Purp? Vol. 2." The first single off the compilation album is "Kryptonite" and features Big Boi, Killer Mike, C-Bone and Rock D.
Kryptonite Audio:
Windows Media
Real Audio
Krptonite Video:
HI
Windows Media
Real Video
LO
Windows Media
Real Video
Notable Entries:
Bombs Over Baghdad #2
"Hey Ya" #15
"Ms. Jackson" #171
"Rosa Parks" #374
Stankonia.com has the internet's #1 hiphop forum... and the members have been debating the best Outkast songs forever. Finally someone set up a March Madness style tournament. In its second year, this year's tourney final features:
ATLiens vs. Aquemini.
February 1st, 1975 it happened
Was born in West Savannah way before I started rappin
My mamma had a nigga at the age of fifteen
My daddy was sellin that sack, now he's gots responsibilities
Stayed at me granny's while me mammy was at work
and she couldn't watch my every move so shit I started servin
Around Frazier Home, down in the West Side projects
Changin over foodstamps, and hittin a lick was next see
I'm just a playa like that, my jeans was sharply creased
I got a fresh white t-shirt and my cap is slightly pointed East
So flyin, or floatin, a Brougham is what I'm sportin
Sade is in my tape deck, I'm movin in slow motion boi
So meet me deep in the streets that's where I learned the capers
Us lickin blunts, lickin leaves, rollin reefer papers
I'm slightly slouched, in the seats off in my bucket
But the niggaz around the Ave. and the hoes, they love me
They wanna be me and my family too
Because the money that I make be puttin cable off in every room
So follow the beans, follow my lead through the nooks and crannies
It's everyday life off in my hood so come and holla at me
But go 'head on, with that foolishness bitch
Let me get lovely with my swerve because I'm true to this shit
And if you comin with eight dollars, you shit out of luck
Because the West Side ain't takin no shorts on the dime
So fire it up
You are at the unofficial home for Outkast, Andre 3000, Big Boi, Dungeon Family, Dirty South, Goodie Mob, etc. The message board is the best online, check it out...
Check it out, a brand-new interview with Andre
You can watch the Outkast VMA performace HERE
ANDRE 3000 is the world's best-dressed man, Esquire magazine says.
"He's a complete individual," Nick Sullivan, Esquire fashion director, said in New York.
You can download the Roses video here: (quicktime format, large file)
Andre3000 recently became Playboy's newest celebrity photographer with his 'dirty south' shots in the mag and online...
Playboy.com presents Andre3000
Another NY Times article about Outkast, this one includes Erykah Badu (new album out now) and is about being 'weird' and successful...
When Weird Works: Outkast and Erykah Badu
IT has proven near impossible to ignore the rumors, the rampant music-media speculation. "Outkast — Divided Souls," one magazine cover suggested. "Outkast Goes Their Separate Ways?" asked yet another. Tired of the talk about their imminent demise, at a recent news conference the two men who make up hip-hop's most ingenious group vigorously denied they were disbanding.
Outkast, Rap's Odd Couple: Gangsta Meets Granola
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
* 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!"
Get more info at Mi2N - Music Industry News Network
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
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.
Whild Peach have been down with the DF for some time now, including opening for Outkast on the Stankonia tour, but according to unsubstantiated rumors in the comments section, Peach (the lead female of the group, pictured above) sings on the hook of Outkast's first single and appears in the video.
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MTV's Outkast Section is featuring this live 1999 performance of Da Art of Storytellin. Click Here, or visit the site to check out other videos, audio, and news.