Author: Outkast

Format: Explicit Lyrics

Release Date: 31-10-2000

Details: Product Description Outkast Amazon.ca With their fourth album, Outkast invoke the rebel Southern spirit to full effect. Realizing that there is something rotten in the state of hip hop, the Atlanta local heroes have staked out their own territory, Stankonia, a Utopian republic representing the best of the Dirty South. As if in tribute to Funkadelic's America Eats Its Young, the album cover features Dre and Big Boi staring out in front of a black and white Stars and Stripes. Inside, they waste no time revealing their radical agenda. "Don't everyone like the smell of gasoline?" hollers Andre 3000 on the opener "Gasoline Dreams," as he sets fire to the constitution over a scorching electric guitar. The single "B.O.B." (aka "Bombs Over Baghdad") is Outkast's state-of-the-union address, a rousing gothic gospel number that advocates a "power music electric revival" as it approaches the speed of Reprazent's "Who Told You" and the epic feel of "Bohemian Rhapsody." On "Ms. Jackson," they assume the role of exemplary Southern gentlemen begging for forgiveness from their hoochie's mama over a backing with spooky shades of Prince's "When Doves Cry." Elsewhere, they eschew tradition (on tracks like "?", "Snappin & Trappin" and the B-Real-guesting "Xplosion") to infuse their dirty funk with a distinctly avant-garde afro-sheen. Come election day, just sniff this stank to inhale freedom. -- Chris Campion

UPC: 730082607223

EAN: 0730082607223

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New