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“Roses really smell like poo-poo,” he coos on ‘Roses’, a singalong duet with Big Boi and one of the saner moments of ‘The Love Below’. The outstanding ‘The Rooster’, meanwhile, sets his problems as a single parent to supercharged P-funk, and is almost certainly the first rap song to touch on Princess Diana and nappy-changing.Īndre 3000 is not averse to filth, either. It’s Big Boi who packs the political conscience in OutKast, so ‘War’ sees his lucid hyperbabble turned on the Bush Junta and its misadventures, neatly summarised as, “Basically, America you got fucked”. He’s also a lot more thoughtful than his image might suggest. By hip-hop standards – even those of The Neptunes and Timbaland – Big Boi is anything but conservative. Take ‘GhettoMusick’, a dizzying varispeed trip through old-school rave, lascivious soul and Lord knows what else, or the uproarious Cotton Club swing of ‘Bowtie’, or the intricate, twanging electro of ‘Flip Flop Rock’ (featuring, delightfully, the sage Jay-Z’s thoughts on footwear).

Outkast the love below full album free#

It’s easy to portray the two as opposing stereotypes: Big Boi the geezerish poledancing aficionado who calls his company “Boom Boom Room Productions”, a rap traditionalist Dre the effete hippy who styles himself as “Cupid Valentino”, a psychedelic free spirit.īut as ‘Speakerboxxx’ proves, nothing is quite so straightforward. But those nagging rumours of a complete split may be a little premature.įor a start, Dre produces a handful of tracks on Big Boi’s half, ‘Speakerboxxx’ and, as the Boi repeatedly stresses, “Ain’t no uno, we’re a duo”.

It’s a neat way to assert their differences, especially since Big Boi remains a major player in Atlanta’s rap scene, while Dre is given to announcing “hip-hop is dead”. As you’ve probably heard by now, OutKast’s two members – Big Boi and Andre 3000 – take a CD apiece. 137 minutes of synapse-popping, gut-reorganising, breathtakingly adventurous music. ‘Speakerboxxx/The Love Below’ is OutKast’s fifth album.