Outkast stankonia logo3/17/2024 ![]() Stankonia is full of acid-trip vocal effects, live instruments, Isley Brothers-style guitars and beats that range from skittering to bombastic. Why should the music sound better than I look?'”Īlong with the Goodie Mob and producers Organized Noize, OutKast have proved over the years that there is much more to Atlanta’s music scene than dirty-South booty beats. Three or four years ago, I remember him saying, ‘I just want to look like the music, man - as funky and exciting as the music. He’s on a level with Bootsy Collins and George Clinton. “Dre’s living a life with it,” says Rico Wade, the Organized Noize producer who has been on board from the beginning. ![]() He’s one of the few male MCs to have performed in a platinum wig (not to mention muumuus, shiny turbans, genie outfits, customized military uniforms, funked-up fur coats and other homespun psychedelic-pimp creations) without losing cred. Andre is as interplanetary as Kool Keith and as earthbound as Grandmaster Flash. Andre and Big Boi have deftly married two sides of hip-hop: Andre’s way-out, third-eye consciousness harkens back to the freewheeling intellectualism of groups like Public Enemy and De La Soul, while Big Boi represents the streets and the gangsta tradition, albeit with a dose of conscience. ![]() Stankonia is OutKast’s masterpiece - brainy, socially aware, flexible funk akin to Sly and the Family Stone’s 1971 opus, There’s a Riot Going On. ![]()
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