ATLiens

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Total Tracks: 15   Total Length: 57:25

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Best Outkast Album IMHO!

SoulRider

5/5 ?[GREETINGSEARTHLINGS] KISS=keep it simple stupid. Outkast is the best. André and Big Boi are the most magnificent duo to ever land. Those ATLiens had me buying this CD when it first dropped... Best Outkast you could have in your music collection. 5/5 ?.

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Island music..

slip

I always have this discussion with my buddy about what cd I would take if I knew I was going to be stranded on an island..yes no ipod either....this cd goes with me every time...hopefully we will hear something from them together again...

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The Start of a Whole New Sound

james.l.flowers

Even though Southernplayalisticadilla- - - cmuzik was the debut for Andre & Big Boi, this was the masterpiece that showed you just how amazing music can be when you tackle it without boundaries. This was the beginning of the duo's journey to define their own sound. As the years would go by, they made some other classic albums but this is where it all started. An album that help redefine a generation of artists and producers. I consider this album nothing short of a classic. Purely Groundbreaking Music Making.

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If You Wonder What All the Hype About Outkast Is..

djcureyes

..here you have the reason. Lyrics as instruments, and that hot summer Cadillac feelin.

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Claimin' True

Atlaight!

'Kast's most lyrically tight album - basically this is the joint where they slayed the world with the lyrical prowess they now exhibit with such ease.

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vixenella

This is the uncensored version

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Icon: Outkast

By Michaelangelo Matos

The player and the poet; the funk-faithful homeboy who raises pit bulls and the slightly spacey guitar-wielding dandy who takes movie parts; the championship singles act whose albums work best as whole units: What about OutKast isn't a dichotomy? Only their incredibly long shadow: for their first decade as a recording act, Big Boi (player, pit bull-raiser) and Andre 3000 (a.k.a. Dre and 3 Stacks; poet, dandy) pushed every rule about what hip-hop could and… more »

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Though they were likely lost on casual hip-hop fans, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik was full of subtle indications that OutKast were a lot more inventive than your average Southern playas. Their idiosyncrasies bubbled to the surface on their sophomore effort, ATLiens, an album of spacy sci-fi funk performed on live instruments. Largely abandoning the hard-partying playa characters of their debut, Dre and Big Boi develop a startlingly fresh, original sound to go along with their futuristic new personas. George Clinton’s space obsessions might seem to make P-Funk obvious musical source material, but ATLiens ignores the hard funk in favor of a smooth, laid-back vibe that perfectly suits the duo’s sense of melody. The album’s chief musical foundation is still soul, especially the early-’70s variety, but other influences begin to pop up as well. Some tracks have a spiritual, almost gospel feel (though only in tone, not lyrical content), and the Organized Noize production team frequently employs the spacious mixes and echo effects of dub reggae in creating the album’s alien soundscapes. In addition to the striking musical leap forward, Dre and Big Boi continue to grow as rappers; their flows are getting more tongue-twistingly complex, and their lyrics more free-associative. Despite a couple of overly sleepy moments during the second half, ATLiens is overall a smashing success thanks to its highly distinctive style, and stands as probably OutKast’s most focused work (though it isn’t as wildly varied as subsequent efforts). The album may have alienated (pun recognized, but not intended) the more conservative wing of the group’s fans, but it broke new ground for Southern hip-hop and marked OutKast as one of the most creatively restless and ambitious hip-hop groups of the ’90s. – Steve Huey

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