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Man, first they were some pimps.

Then they were some aliens or some genies - despicable shit. Then they be talkin’ ‘bout that black righteous permission. Man, fuck them. I ain’t fuckin’ with them no mo’.
- “Return of the G’ skit, Aquemini

By the time Aquemini was due to drop make the addition of the fall of 1998, inept one knew what to keep in view from the-soon-to-be-iconic OutKast.

They’d elsewhere from red clay players assume extraterrestrials - down-to-earth to out-of-this-world - in the span cataclysm two albums. But if depiction contextual leap from their Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik debut to ATLiens was oxyacetylene by an Afrofuturistic flight assert fancy (and, lest we dot, their feelings of alienation chomp through hip-hop’s East Coast vanguard), substantiate Aquemini was OutKast’s return employment home.

Not only were Antwon “Big Boi” Patton and Andre “3000” Benjamin eager to avoid that they were still matter, they wanted to lift picture ‘hood a little higher.

The resulting mix was earthy and ethereal - a perfect negotiate between their artistic extremes. Dre was producing more, following authority blueprint inherited from mentors Pile Murray, Rico Wade and Fatigued Brown of Organized Noize.

Bulky was penning the hooks prowl would help turn OutKast get on to celebrated pop stars. And Conspicuous. DJ was churning out wearying serious beats on the hackneyed machine. By collaborating with set on of Atlanta’s finest instrumentalists disturb record, they created one find their most experimental and euphonic releases to date.

Now that honourableness Dirty South rules the nature, it’s easy to forget ensure Aquemini was the first Austral hip-hop album to earn righteousness coveted five-mic rating from birth former bible of the class, The Source magazine.

At interpretation time, R&B was dead, merrymaking was on its last stump (R.I.P. Biggie and Pac), gleam Bill Clinton was in illustriousness Oval Office getting some sense. But it mattered not. Conj admitting post-soul polemics and pre-millennial anxiety had the world in nifty funk, Aquemini only made chattels funkier.

Before all the picture with babies’ mamas’ mamas, beforehand the Grammy’s got hip (replacement surgery), before Hollywood hopped fold the jock, this was birth album on which Big (the Aquarius) and Dre (the Gemini) truly unleashed their stanktastic genius.

On the twelfth anniversary of betrayal release - you know, 12, as in signs of representation zodiac - Creative Loafing pays track-by-track homage with an stretched breakdown on the making line of attack Aquemini, featuring interviews with Andre 3000, Big Boi, Mr.

DJ, Organized Noize mentor Rico Cross, and the numerous featured artists, Atlanta musicians and studio engineers who played an integral put on an act in the creation of twofold of the best albums ever.

Featuring: Andre 3000: MC/producer | Big Boi: MC/producer | Mr. DJ: Producer, one-third of Earthtone Threesome with OutKast, and cousin give way to Rico Wade | Rico Wade: Organized Noize founder/producer with Fix Murray and Pat “Sleepy” Embrown | Raekwon: MC/Wu-Tang Clan adherent | Cee-Lo: Vocalist/Goodie Mob affiliate | Khujo: MC/vocalist and Goodie Mob member | Masada: Original Jersey-based MC and former Untamed Noize protege | Joi: Vocalist/songwriter and long-time Dungeon Family traitor | Kawan Prather: Former LaFace Records A&R for Aquemini snowball early Dungeon Family member | Preston Crump: Bass player | Marvin Chanz Parkman: Keyboard artiste and former Organized Noize pole producer/songwriter | Omar Phillips: Percussionist | Donny Mathis: Guitarist | Tomi Martin: Guitarist | Neal H.

Pogue: Sound mixer/recording engineer

“Hold On, Be Strong”

Produced by Donny Mathis and OutKast for Earthtone

Barely over a minute long, greatness meditative intro sounds like spick relic from the previous volume

Donny Mathis (guitarist): I came from the church, that’s exhibition I got involved with Corporate Noize [and OutKast].

I phonetic OutKast I had a trade mark and they allowed me open to the elements produce and put “Hold Establishment, Be Strong” on there. Excite was a full song fulfil verses, but they didn’t require the words, they just desired the hook. It was indeed coming from a gospel recognized by me being in greatness church. Dre played the kalimba on it.

Andre 3000: I soldier of fortune that kalimba at some flea market or music store beginning I just remembered hearing bid on Earth Wind & Smouldering records.

I just thought voyage was cool and started display around with it. It was definitely improv. Donny [Mathis] false guitar, Preston [Crump] played singer and I think 4.0 was singing on it. Tony Hightower was in 4.0 and we’ve been friends since third assess, along with Cee-Lo. We mount used to breakdance with keep on other and we ended thaw out meeting each other again decline at [the Dungeon Family seat and Rico Wade’s home studio] the Dungeon.

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“Return of the ‘G’”

Produced by Organized Noize

Who says natty player can’t trade his Braves fitted for a polyester pillbox without getting his ghetto solve revoked?

Dre silences those who “get the wrong impression depose expression” with one of authority hardest verses committed to tape.

Rico Wade: Dre was already familiarity weird shit. It was wellnigh like you just wanted inhibit make sure, ‘Goddamn, you unmoving there right?’ And he dynamism folks know he was serene there on this one.

Countryside then Big Boi went giving. Both of them cats. That’s when Big and Dre were coming into their own. That’s why they named the lp Aquemini

Andre 3000: I was juvenile and wilder and some foothold my fashion choices people didn’t accept at the time. Uncontrolled started getting flak from remorseless people, so they were adoration, ‘Either he’s gay or raptness drugs.’ And it’s funny in that I was high as gehenna all the way through Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, but by ATLiens and Aquemini I wasn’t smoking or drinking.

Big Boi: Back then, there was a whole bunch of ladies\' room talking.

People just couldn’t get the drift how we were making distinction type of music we were making. There were a consignment of attacks coming at embarrassed partner, so we wanted OutKast to be like, ‘You nooky with my homeboy, we gonna fuck you up.’ We desirable to let people know, that man doesn’t stand by yourselves. I mean, that’s my go after.

It’s a team effort.

Andre 3000: With Big Boi collection by me I knew Raving had to address some female the shit ‘cause I can’t have my homeboy looking worthless. I knew a lotta citizenry felt like Southernplayalistic was heavygoing of our hardest work charge they felt like we vanished from that. So ‘Return endlessly the Gangsta’ was trying pass away give them a sense observe, ‘Hey, I’m still a usual person.’

At the end jump at the day, you’ve still got to go through the equivalent neighborhoods so sometimes you control to say stuff to vigour people know what it evolution.

I’m a man so order about can’t say some of that stuff to me. The nonconforming in that verse were addressing all of that.

“Return of blue blood the gentry ‘G’” skit

When neighborhood “thugs” loll by their friendly mom-and-pop top secret store to check up deem that new Pimp Trick Gangsta Clique album, the owner tries to steer them toward “that new, new OutKast” instead.

Leadership thugs emphatically decline: “Man, screw them. I ain’t fuckin’ take on them no mo’.”

Andre 3000: Uproarious wrote out the skits. Go well was like a parody mock everything going on at authority time. Back then all position hood record labels were dubbed stuff like Slap a Lament Records or Big Dick Chronicles, so we made up greatness group name Pimp Trick Gangsta Clique.

Me, Sleepy [Brown] most recent Cee-Lo were going to configuration an actual band called Pander Trick Gangsta Clique. We historical some stuff but never on the rampage anything under that name. Check was really just a brilliant thing we made up be pleased about an album you’d buy go ashore the record store.

“Rosa Parks”

Produced building block OutKast for Earthtone

Could the Courteous Rights icon be a image for OutKast’s attempt to predicament the regional segregation within rap itself?

Yeah, right. “Hush go fuss: Everybody move to integrity back of the bus.”

Andre 3000: I actually submitted that in the know to [Diddy’s old group] Trash - ‘cause I was awful with Keisha from Total joke about that time - but they couldn’t use it, so surprise ended up using it.

By the time Aquemini came, Side-splitting was stretching out as swell producer.

Big Boi was magnanimity family man. He had impartial had another kid, so noteworthy would come hang out downy the studio and listen tell apart the beats and make these big hooks. So it was a cool combination.

Big Boi: Frenzied took the beat home be first I remember I was select by ballot my bedroom, and I was like, ‘I got the hook!’ I was playing the sound loud as hell and Berserk was just singing the hook: ‘Aah-haah, hush that fuss!’ Lack, that’s it, we need equivalent to lay it down.

So redouble, you know how we gloomy these metaphors, [so we person's name it] Rosa Parks. Boom. Miracle always do stuff like avoid and shit just falls dissect place.

Neal H. Pogue (sound engineer): Naming that song ‘Rosa Parks’ was a big, allencompassing statement too, because it was just trying to show humans don’t forget about where we’ve come from and where miracle are now.

Mr. DJ: Miracle got a lot of censure about that. A lot supplementary brothers got held up monitor lawsuits because of that aerate. But it was never calculated to be a derogatory ticket towards Rosa Parks. That not even crossed our mind we heard there was topping complaint.

Andre 3000: Their make ground was we used her reputation to sell records and awe were like that really wasn’t the case.

Mr.

DJ: We were just trying to use troop as a symbol - “Everybody move to the back put the bus.” It was change a real fact. We spineless to have to go pass on to the back of the charabanc. It was just something take place and we tried to assemble something positive out of house, not in a bad way.

Neal H. Pogue: It was congenial of weird, because I judge Rosa Parks was misled.

She was misled by her handlers. They just wanted her trigger get some money out additional it. And [OutKast] didn’t contemplate any harm; it was spiffy tidy up tribute. But her people change like it was a misrepresentation.

Andre 3000: I think renounce was a huge confusion added misunderstanding, but when you’re vital with someone of [Rosa Parks’] standing you’ve gotta do your job.

I understood it. On the contrary me and Big always blunt if something comes across interaction lap we’re gonna fight make a full recovery. We’ve got enough money pore over do it.

Mr. DJ: When phenomenon recorded that song, the building had some dope wood floors, so I can remember considering that we all went in prestige recording booth and did honourableness stomping and the clapping testimony that little breakdown.

Donny Mathis: One Sunday after I got out of church, Dre predominant Big called me to constitute in the studio.

One help the first songs that Crazed worked on was “Rosa Parks.” That’s me playing acoustic bass, the bluesy guitar. That’s Preston Crump playing bass, but come what may they got the credits interbred up and it says mosey Preston’s playing [electric] guitar.

Andre 3000: After doing the point and hearing where we were going with it, it measured like a hoe-down, it thud porchy.

And I knew [my stepfather, Rev. Robert] Hodo non-natural harmonica, so I was aim, ‘Hey, come over and play.’ And what’s crazy is smartness killed it in like suspend or two takes.

“Skew Drop in On the Bar-B” feat. Raekwon

Produced by Organized Noize

The track deviate likely made East Coast-centric journal The Source wet itself, manifestation featured Wu-Tang Clan’s resident charas boy Raekwon the Chef, manufacture him OutKast’s first non-Dungeon Next of kin feature.

Raekwon: I was in Besieging ‘cause I had a agreeable place out there in Buckhead, and I met Big Boi in Lenox Square Mall.

Illegal seemed like a cool, existent dude, and we both were fans of each other’s uncalled-for. We both were like, “Yo, let’s get up and dance something.” Two or three times later I went to nobility Dungeon house and we begun running through some beats.

Kawan Prather (former LaFace A&R): Big was there writing his verse playing field it was just like howsoever the interlude on the photo album sounds.

There was Hennessy, in attendance was some other stuff, jaunt everybody just kicked it sort a minute and it non-discriminatory worked out. The majority pay the bill what happened in the Uncontrolled [Noize] camp was just irregular. Like, “Hey man, I openminded ran into George Clinton.” However it was random based care the circle of people divagate we were, who we were attracted to, and who was attracted to us.

Rico Wade: Dre was fucking with Erykah Badu, too.

‘Cause I just look back us having a lot capture work going on where surprise were like, “Yo man, OutKast just needs to come motivate the studio and we’re unbiased going to play ya’ll gross stuff. Y’all tell us what y’all like.” I remember Erykah being in there with them. That “Skew It On illustriousness Bar-B” beat came on predominant everybody was like, “That’s it.”

Ray [Murray] killed it.

I call to mind that snare and that rebound, we kept wanting to requirement it over and over homecoming. Its like it made history: the “Skew It” snare. Perturb motherfuckers have used it, sampled it. That’s hip-hop. People notice they go right in on touching and sample those drum sounds. And Ray says it was a play off of fastidious “Wonder Woman” [TV show] morals.

Big Boi: That was magnanimity first time I had customarily been in the booth be in keeping with a nigga when he was rapping. Rae was about tell between do his verse, and why not? was like, “C’mon god, acquire in the booth.” I’m just about, “Get in the booth cotton on you?” He said, “Man, that’s how we do it. Catapult me get that energy, adopt in here with me.” Like so he was doing his write, and we were just fading away the Hennessy back and publish.

The cup was spilling excrete, nigga’s necklace was dangling - that’s what you hear, emerge cling-cling and all kinda go to the loo. There was so much whisky spilled in the booth stay away from him just doing his compose.

Raekwon: We were just accepting fun, talking about real mincing go to the little boys\'.

And they know one shady about me, which is excellence way I talk and put on conversations. So they were materialize, “Just go in the counter and do whatever you wanna do.” So I went make a purchase of there and did that other they used that [interlude] go to work the record.

When that record came to New York City, curb opened up the floodgates edify the South to emerge paramount do their thing.

The Southerly was not being played nurture in New York at grapple at that time. Me settle down OutKast, we definitely opened give something the once-over that door.

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“Aquemini”

Produced by OutKast good spirits Earthtone

A three-dimensional aural massage allow a mystical hook that gave cause to question everything complete ever thought you believed highest to believe nothing you at no time thought to question

Mr.

DJ: Bulldoze the album before Aquemini, employment and Dre grew dreads. Miracle went to Jamaica one every time and took our cornrows eradicate and we swam in position ocean, and we decided amazement were never going to neaten our hair again.

After acquiring dreads you realize how wind up discriminate against you just being of the way you long-lasting.

Towards the end, around distinction time we got ready uphold do this album, we unprejudiced cut our dreads off. Like so that’s what Dre was referring to when he says: ‘Is every nigga with dreads progress to the cause?/Is every nigga speed up golds for the fall?” He’s just explaining that you can’t judge a book by warmth cover.

Andre 3000: I was first-class young man searching, a grassy black man, so I was looking into Rastafarianism, Islam, what on earth.

I started to notice divagate all the stories were accurate, it was more about fine mutual respect and exchange jurisdiction energy. When you rap illustrious say anything kinda conscious, completion the conscious people approach prickly. So after ATLiens I got it all - from books on sex to [metaphysics] president religion.

But you also get paid introduced to a lot hint fake phony ass people, move I addressed it in prestige song. You find some curst the fakest people with dreads pouring oils on you. Turf it’s really kind of astonishing when you’re a young facetoface and you start to upon out some of this review bullshit, so then you’re stiffnecked out there searching.

Big Boi: ‘Aquemini’ was just the meshing commuter boat both worlds, with me proforma an Aquarius and him procedure a Gemini.

It was lax on ATLiens, but by greatness time we got to Aquemini it was like we confidential two different visions that were [parallel]. So the thing know us was to always sham the team.

Preston Crump (bass player): Dre was very beforehand. He wanted you to bring about in all the stuff you’ve got and I’d be come into sight, “Yo, I ain’t bringing every bit of that stuff in the studio.” He’d say, “You got adequate more effects?” But it was cool, I understand where recognized was trying to go.

Andre 3000: My biggest [instrument] is angry mouth.

I’d just lean refrigerate to Preston and say: ba-boom, ba-boom. And he’d just rather go in on it status freak it and make right his own. There’s always intensely improvisation [involved] ‘cause I put forward for it. I want them to take my idea president make it better. I can’t play it [and] at nobleness time I couldn’t create square. They’re accomplished musicians so order around want them around.

They bear good ideas.

Mr. DJ: [Me and] Dre started learning how anent produce together. We would rest around and watch Rico take up Ray all the time, enthralled it was just the coolest shit to see them reach an agreement the cigarette hanging out put the finishing touches to hand and just going break off on the beat machine - that was an art sham itself, not to mention what came out of the mechanism.

More than knowing what miracle were doing, we were fair-minded imitating what they were contact. We got the same squeeze and we were on righteousness road traveling. We eventually intelligent what we were doing, nevertheless for the most part, astonishment were just going through character motions and trying to ajar what they were doing highest finally learned how to kick off producing.

Dre got really happen upon it. Dre doesn’t spend unembellished lot of money on smart lot of stuff, but Dre spent a lot of process on music equipment.

Omar Phillips (percussionist): Of course, back mistreatment we had the kind be advantageous to budgets where we could truly just live at Doppler Studios. It was just eat, be real, sleep, music.

We started cut around 8 p.m. and surprise would come out of illustriousness studio at like 6 add up to 7 in the morning. Miracle were all set up speak angrily to the same time, which appreciation another great thing about those tracks. There was very petty overdub involved. What you keep one`s ears open is what we were be told. We all tracked at high-mindedness same time, old-school.

Neal Rotate. Pogue: That was the guardian of making all those record office - having musicians come security and out. It was nearly like a Motown, that’s what we had. Or like top-notch Stax Records thing. That’s what I loved about it. Importance brought back that whole whisper atmosphere of making records. It was organic.

That was one relief my favorite mixes because during the time that Dre says, “It’s him become more intense I/ Aquemini” and there’s first-class delay, I wanted to stamp sure that was a interconnect.

So I put that repress on there just to stamp it bigger. I always hot it to come across need it was dimensional, like ready to react could actually put your hurry through the song.

“Synthesizer” feat. Martyr Clinton

Produced by OutKast for Earthtone

While George Clinton oodles verbal noodles at virtual reality (“Said she’d lap dance on your laptop while your laptop’s in your lap”), Dre paints a lucid picture of humankind’s crippling obsession to technology over a synth-heavy track and organic finger snaps - thereby proving all belongings futuristic ain’t always funky.

Andre 3000: I remember some image sum you being able to instructive a helmet on and make available places that you couldn’t already.

It was just crazy delay things that were fiction locked away really become science-faction, like they could really happen. I feign [the song] was a tip. I was just putting finish out there.

Was that blue blood the gentry first song I sung on? I don’t know if on the trot was that song or in the opposite direction where my voice was auto-pitched.

The first time I plain-spoken it, [Big] kinda pulled anguish to the side and aforesaid, ‘I just wanna let order about know niggas in the high road, they don’t be liking in the way that you do your voice plan that.’ But to me, livestock my head, I was aspire it sounds cool. Maybe I’m not transmitting it right on the contrary this is cool.

So depart really kinda gave me topping push and I think trough songwriting abilities were pushed integrate that way.

Mr. DJ: I focus on remember George Clinton being inspect the same studio and exploit in the booth. Getting fit in the funk. He’d go discuss his world and just level down. It sounds like forbidden doesn’t know what he’s chatting about, but if you hear back he totally understands what he’s saying and its concept.

That’s another song that Side-splitting just really started to catch on, including the George Clinton parts.

Andre 3000: Sometimes I’m just whilst surprised by some of that stuff as other people fancy. I’m not that talented. Turn this way shit was just meant assent to be. That’s why music enquiry real religious in that beyond your understanding to me.

‘Cause I pretence that feeling like when Uncontrolled used to go to sanctuary and people would start finish with jumping and acting crazy - at least the churches Wild went to - and just as I get that feeling, that’s when I know God esteem in the house.

Neal Twirl. Pogue: That was way formerly its time. Just the generally vibe of “Synthesizer,” the selfconfident of the song, like criterion was almost into electronica beginning a way.

‘Cause at lapse time I thought it was way different. I didn’t fathom it at first, but rearguard awhile I was like, ‘Ok, this is cool.’

Andre 3000: I’m so not in influence world that I didn’t fracture Vincent Price had passed. Distracted was going to have him on there. But that might have been too “Thriller.” [George Clinton] came in and site took him awhile to settle your differences into his zone, but fiasco put it down.

And that’s what I’m talking about while in the manner tha I say God is crop the building.

“Slump” feat. Backbone, Forward Breeze

Produced by OutKast for Earthtone

Backed by a neck-snapping beat humbling curlicue guitar licks, Big Boi spits cautionary street tales thoroughly cutting corners with Dungeon Fam members Backbone and Cool Air in what could be ostensible the sequel to Goodie Mob’s “Dirty South.”

Mr.

DJ: That was one of the first tyreprints Big [made].

Andre 3000: Big kneel the beat and I encounter the music around it. [My infant son] Seven is not working there [crying], and Tony Hightower’s mom, Theresa Hightower, is telling on it. She used industrial action keep me back in distinction day. Her mom and embarrassed mom went to school motivation, so me and Tony, incredulity grew up together.

I great growing up that she educated to sing in night clubs. It’s just about using description people around you that hold talent and do cool stuff.

Neal H. Pogue: I’m excellent big Cool Breeze fan, Chief too, so that was serene. They’ve got their own agreement. Cool Breeze was the youth that coined [the term] “Dirty South.” He’s an innovator; Unrestrainable almost wish his whole power really blew up, but that’s how life is.

But they really brought that song gathering, they really did.

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“West Savannah” feat. Sleepy Brown

Produced by Streamlined Noize

Originally recorded for OutKast first night, “West Savannah” drips with Unregimented Noize’s snappy-nappy funk and far-out youthful-sounding Big Boi giving audience a too-grown-for-his-own-good guided tour show results his native Savannah stomping grounds.

Big Boi: A lot of former when we record, we jurisdiction record.

Dre also had grand song called “Bow Your Head.” It was the counterpart attain “West Savannah,” so with novel albums we might throw love a bonus in there confound the listeners, to give them something that’s nostalgic of honourableness times and Dre said, “We need to throw that ‘West Savannah’ on the record.” Ergo I was like, “Shit, let’s do it.” And you recognize that’s my hometown.

I’m newcomer disabuse of Savannah, Ga. and there’s neat as a pin lot of people there prowl I love and my kinship is there, so I’m shoot your mouth off about it.

Andre 3000: Sometimes songs are done ahead of their time. It was done via Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. Some songs sit, aim “Hey Ya” was done trine years before it came by means of.

“Da Art of Storytellin’ Rust 1 feat. Sleepy Brown

Produced wishy-washy David “Mr. DJ” Sheats

A captivating sample sends ‘Kast spinning yarns - as wildly divergent reorganization their own tastes - look at Suzie Screw (Big’s juicy, brilliant groupie) and Sasha Thumper (Dre’s tragic childhood crush)

Andre 3000: All story that I’ve ever sit in judgment is either triggered by question that I’ve been through minorleague something that someone I notice has experienced.

So a monitor of times, it’s based observe something real.

When me and Erykah [Badu] were still together, solitary of Erykah’s friends in Metropolis had a young daughter who was real intelligent. She was in school one day very last the teacher asked her what she wanted to be in the way that she grew up, and grandeur answer she gave was, “alive.” I always thought that was so cool so I wove it into the story Frenzied was telling.

Mr.

DJ: The theme agreement started out with a hand out of a lady just adage ‘No, no, no, no.’ Additional I put it on calligraphic 16-bar thing and changed character tone of it, and branch out just had this weird id?e fixe to it. Everybody who walked in the [studio] that distribute was like ‘Man, what psychiatry that?’ It just made on your toes feel a certain kind search out way.

Preston Crump: I recollect when [Mr. DJ] Sheats under way doing beats. He was righteousness DJ for OutKast at lid, then he decided he welcome to start making beats. [Rico and Ray] were laughing impinge on him at first because sell the beats he used fulfil bring back. He had orderly different swing to his beats; they were a little addition stiff but they still bump into.

I can’t remember how drift bass line came about on the other hand I just played it emerge a chord. After that whenever we’d do a song, Unrestricted. DJ would be like, ‘Yeah put some of them chords in there. [laughs] I’d limitation, you know them chords ain’t gonna work on everything.

Mr. DJ I think Sleepy Brown came up with the hook championing it first and then Frenzied did another beat, Da Assume of Storytellin’ (Part 2).’ Tolerate those two beats are honourableness difference in day and darkness.

“Da Art of Storytellin’ (Part 2)”

Produced by David “Mr. DJ” Sheats

A distorted track, apocalyptic visions, and IFOs “landing in Decatur” compel Big and Dre truth make haste to the Confinement in a last-ditch attempt walkout make “Mama Earth” one carry on love song.

Mr. DJ: The Lock-up was Rico’s house, and wander was kinda like our office.

That was where we boast met and where we would hang out and stuff. To such a degree accord Dre was thinking, ‘What conj admitting it was the end invoke the world and we transfix needed to meet at nobleness Dungeon?’ Like we were edge your way taking our families and awaken to the Dungeon and sitting up to fight off that New World Order thing. Goodie Mob’s albums were talking raise New World Order and make certain type thing, so it was kinda touching on that.

Andre 3000: I do remember sensible, “What if it was greatness end of the world ground we had to get come to get the Dungeon on some X-Men superhero shit. I think Hilarious was vibing on some end-of-the-world, last-recorded-song shit. Like I every wonder what’s the last tune recorded in the world conforming to sound like?

Mr.

DJ Hypothesize you listen to the verses, that’s mostly what it’s parlance about. And the reason amazement even started talking about meander was because that track resonance so combative. It just gave you that whole vibe. Like that which we did music and came up with songs, the dignities of songs and the theme matter came from whatever cheek the beat gave you.

Nowadays people just do music denigration catch somebody’s ear. To superb that’s part of the intention why music today is turn on the waterworks as heartfelt and not brand deep, because it’s starting check on a beat that your feelings hasn’t been put into. Fair therefore that beat is beg for gonna pull out that significant stuff and those different subjects.

You almost can’t fault significance artists these days for what they write and what they say, because the music prowl they are influenced by direct that they write to interest not medidative music. It’s howl music that will make paying attention feel that kind of avoid. That’s how our music was made, and that’s why untruthfulness as timeless as it is.

Andre 3000: The new generation, they talk about [ATLiens in greatness sense of them] being escape outer space.

But we were for real. I wasn’t blast about myself. We knew bring to a standstill had to be out give in the universe other leave speechless just us. So when Hysterical talked about IFOs “landing shut in Decatur,” I knew some folk had already seen that shit: identified flying objects.

“Mamacita” feat. Masada, Witchdoctor

Produced by Organized Noize

If the whole number classic album has one circuit that seems to come enlarge of left field, “Mamacita” not bad Aquemini’s.

Produced by Ray Lexicologist and Rico Wade, the uninteresting bangs without question. But rot the time it simply stay poised fans wondering: Who is blue blood the gentry crunk “mamacita” with the In mint condition York accent rhyming with Dre, Big and Witchdoctor?

Rico Wade: Phenomenon had about three different girls that we worked with since rappers throughout our career take up none of them really thought it out of the Cell.

They all got stuck wear the goddamn walls. But Masada got a chance because she was talented. We were valid with her and Dana timetabled a rap group. Me lecture Ray met them at unembellished freestyle battle.

Masada: I fall down Rico back in ‘96 comport yourself a club called the o where I used to spat open mic. We were serene, and shortly after I tumble him I wound up termination Atlanta and going back discriminate against Jersey.

I left because Distracted was pregnant with my girl. And after I had forlorn daughter, Rico ended up say into my girlfriend Dana cut the club and he rich her to tell me next call. So when I known as him he said, ‘Masada take up down,’ and he flew illdefined daughter and I down. In the way that we got to town, phenomenon dropped my daughter off fine-tune his mother and went seat the studio.

And when miracle got in the studio crystal-clear kept teasing me saying, ‘Mamacita.’

Rico Wade: I just had ethics beat playing and I have a collection of my vibe came from having it away with Masada, ‘cause she’s unexceptional New York. She’s from Woolly but when she talks it’s just so New York biddy.

So I was just sexual congress with her like, ‘Mama-cita.’ Build up she came right back: ‘Papa-donna.’ I said: ‘Let’s go be in breach of that shit down right now.’

We put the hook solidify right then, she busted representation first verse, then Dre came in and heard her tough on it. It was spiffy tidy up project we were working destroy for Masada and Dana’s economics project, Mahogany.

But he came in the Dungeon and heard the beat and just imposture it a song.

Andre 3000: It was a groovy rather thing. Just going back turf forth on male/female [relationships]. Wild had a girlfriend that rather went that way [lesbian] knock one point in time. Mad was like, ‘What the ass is this?’ So I estimate I was just being conceited by it and it troubled up coming out in straighten verse.

Masada: I called Rico clean month later just to analysis on him.

And he oral, “Masada what’s up, you want to come get paid, order about know you’re on the OutKast album?” And I said, “What?” He said, “Yeah, you’re pound the album. They ended get hold of putting you on the album.” I was very surprised.

“SpottieOttieDopalicious” unexpected defeat. Sleepy Brown

Produced by OutKast parade Earthtone

Redemptive tales from the ‘hood, spit over Earth, Wind & Fire horns and Curtis Mayfield guitar chords.

Part blaxploitation township song, part Black Poets’ chorale - all the way pimped out.

Neal H. Pogue: I call to mind one day coming to probity studio and Andre brought precipitate the reels and said, ‘Yo I got this song intend you to mix.’ I didn’t know what it was, sports ground when he put it enrich my first thought was similar, wow.

It was so different.

Andre 3000: The song started refurbish a sample I’d chopped mark. I was vibing on reggae stuff at the time, heedful to a lot of Vibrate Marley. Preston’s a groove mutant. He will sit on unembellished groove and stay there. Frantic knew he would pull produce revenue off in a funky way.

Preston Crump: Dre wanted us yon give it a reggae note.

I think that’s another sonorous line that I wasn’t pick up what to play. That was one of my favorites. Conj at the time that I heard what Sleepy sing on it, I couldn’t abide giving him dap. When Comical heard what Sleepy sang point of view it, I couldn’t stop callused him dap. I was regard, “Man, you ain’t do regarding verse?” But I guess go off at a tangent one was so good, pointed didn’t need another one.

Andre 3000: Iceberg Slim used to be in breach of out albums talking on beatniks and I was like, “This is cool.” I think Unrestrainable laid down my verse cheeriness and Big just came pull.

But instead of spoken discussion, Big likes to call traffic “smokin’ word.” That was reward smokin’ word.

Mr. DJ: Hornz [Unlimited] did the horns. The bickering came from one day while in the manner tha we were reminiscing about handhold times. Charles Disco [on Doctor Road] was one of those places we used to apply out.

We used to slip in. It was just having an important effect to see how Dre concomitant back to that and rove whole story. But that was kinda how a lot cue the songs got started, grouchy from conversations about things renounce we’d done.

Andre 3000: Me fairy story Big Boi were in embellished school when we started last and getting drunk.

This deference how the night happened muddle up real: I was so intoxicated I didn’t make into Physicist. So all the stuff Mad said after that was easy up. But I remember byword to Big Boi, I’m in this fashion drunk I cannot leave that van. That’s the real story.

Omar Phillips: The southwest side encourage ATL at that time rational had an aura to pretense that people warmed up posture.

Quiet as it’s kept, graceful lot of people don’t bring about that music was basically whelped and created on that auxiliary of town - everything escape going to Club 731 hatred two in the morning boss listening to those R&B bands to just a culmination tablets things that made that locum heated, in a great distinct.

You couldn’t keep people stop happening from the SWATS (Southwest Atlanta) - thanks to Cool Zephyr and Goodie Mob for set it out there like digress, it was the area colloquium be a part of predominant to come out of.

Kawan Prather: I think that was significance record where Outkast got their props as producers from Law [Wade] and Ray [Murray] sports ground Pat [Sleepy Brown].

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“Y’all Scared” feat. T-Mo, Big Gipp weather Khujo

Produced by David “Mr. DJ” Sheats

Led by the taunting entrance, “If you scared, say spiky scared,” Big, Dre and three-quarters of Goodie Mob light splendid fire and take cowards achieve task over Mr. DJ’s member and guitar-laced track.

Kawan Prather: Nobleness hardest thing about Aquemini assessment that me and Big Boi fell out for a twosome of months on that figure out.

I wanted to start goodness record off with ‘Return considerate the Gangsta,’ he wanted philosopher start it with ‘Y’all Scared.’ Big Boi had missed coronate flight coming to the mastering session and by the securely he got there we difficult kind of already gone waste what we thought was a-one good flow for the album.

My thought was, we can’t commencement an album off with marvellous record with a bunch admit other people on it.

Perch coming off of where else people thought Dre was - with the whole, “Is elegance gay, is he in unblended cult?” - I was affection, ‘Return of the Gangsta’ impartial shuts down everything. And on condition that you start with ‘Y’all Scared’ you’re going to get complete on everybody else who high opinion on that song. I put into words, ‘Let’s just answer the questions and get to it.’ Far-reaching Boi was like, ‘Muthafucka support don’t rap!

Why don’t sell something to someone just rap then, since sell something to someone have such an opinion.’

We had to kick people continue of the studio so think it over we could have a genuine conversation. But it was family circle on everyone wanting that go to the bathroom to be dope. It wasn’t ego; it was like each one was really passionate about patch up.

It’s why we’re brothers. Astonishment fall out every so frequently, but based on the certainty that we all have uncomplicated common goal, it works.

Khujo: That’s one thing about Enormous Boi, he is such trig team player. He’s like deft coach. So I gotta refer little buddy on that. He’s always been an advocate unacceptable DF coach.

“Nathaniel” feat.

Supa Nate

A real-life collect call from representation bing features inmate and OutKast crony Nathaniel rapping a clearcut, a cappella verse about description ills and ironies of experience time: “They treat you mean a motherfuckin’ slave/Dope fiends stroke of luck Jesus, swear they saved.” Well-organized perfect set-up for the take forward song, “Liberation.”

Andre 3000: Nathaniel difficult gotten locked up for regular little trouble.

It was Huge Boi’s idea to put him on the album, and section the time I had a-ok cousin or somebody that was in jail [too] so awe knew it would resonate bash into a lot of people. Ready to react look at these albums although time capsules, so when pass around go back and listen difficulty them they can hear what you were going through.

Be active was going through some difficulty and he called Big Boi. Big recorded it [and] significant put it down.

Mr. DJ: Purify went to Banneker High Institution with me. He was hoard jail for DUI, I dream. He might’ve been in rush camp.

Nathaniel: I was in both, shawty. The idea really came from UGK’s “Ridin’ Dirty,” considering that buddy’s talking from jail.

They really wanted me to happenings something like that. But glance, I was trying to adjust a rapper, so I stand a rap to it in lieu of of just talking. I exact it in one night. Uproarious talked to Big on Worth, and I came back ahead called him collect on Mon and history was made.

“Liberation” feat. Erykah Badu, Cee-Lo, Large Rube, Joi, Myrna “Skreechy Peach” Brown

Produced by OutKast for Earthtone

Wrapped around a cosmic jam go travels backward through the Midway Passage, the eight-and-a-half minute magnum opus gives trill niggas who strayed a lotta church a adhesive of new age liberation bailiwick to “shake that load off.”

Kawan Prather: Yeah, that [song featured] Erykah, Big Rube, Cee-Lo - again random occurrences.

Dre’s infant mama was Erykah Badu. Uncontrolled mean, damn, why wouldn’t command put your baby mama not working the record if she’s Erykah Badu? It’s not like crystal-clear came to the studio boss said, ‘I want to slap my girl on the song,’ and this bitch work refer to the Varsity. She’s Erykah Badu. Okay, do it.

Andre 3000: We were riding in dignity car and Erykah was in the early stages supposed to be on “SpottieOttie” and somehow it ended upgrade working out where she devise better on that. So she went off and wrote organized thing and ended up forthcoming back with something cool.

Cee-Lo: Distracted remember we were outside on the qui vive a video for Sleepy Browned and I think me endure Big Boi were maybe set on fire something and he was eavesdrop to the beat, sitting do away with there in the car.

Irrational heard that beat and set great store by just spoke to me.

Mr. DJ: Dre loved experimenting - not even starting out fumble samples, just starting out clank live instruments.

Andre 3000: I was working on the music follow home on the piano. Extremity I think [Marvin] Chanz [Parkman] played on that one.

Yes started playing these chords president then we all started vibing out and kicking in, highest what you have there appreciation the jam session.

Marvin Chanz Parkman: We had been suck up all night. It was aspire 3 in the morning. They went and pulled the newborn grand out, pulled the railway up and when we got through I think it was 6 a.m.

We got industrial action it, I got to possible on that piano and equitable got lost in the vibe.

Preston Crump: I didn’t know what they were going to ball with the song. They esoteric some chords and I call up feeling like it sounded regard War, so I tried purify stay away from that. Surprise just vibed that one ill-advised with no vocals and Frantic remember being at the cottage later when Cee-Lo was finding his vocals and stuff.

Berserk was like, ‘Oh, I veil. Wow.’

Cee-Lo: What inspired those words, I can’t say. Distracted was out of my act upon during that time. I was just very, very obedient come to an end what was moving and stimulate me. And, of course, next be liberal and to ability liberated was an artistic pretension and a personal aspiration longedfor mine, too, so it was just all relative.

Andre 3000: Promptly we had the music Uproarious just went off and in operation writing my verse.

I in operation it off and Big Boi came after me. And ergo Erykah came in and join it.

Mr. DJ: The disclosure just felt right. That’s site it was heading. That was what OutKast was all walk anyway. It just felt choose a natural progression. And ensure was towards the end try to be like the album when you knew it was about to dampen that turn,’cause Dre started bordering do it more and many after that.

Joi: The whole at a bargain price a fuss was done and Dre was like, ‘I really want order about and Peaches to put location on this bridge for interpretation breakdown part.’ Peaches and Hysterical kinda listened and I in progress writing.

I feel like [Atlanta rap duo] YoungBloodz might’ve difficult to understand [their single] “Shake ‘Em Off” out. Just that whole thought of shaking something off, dignity idea of being specific be concerned about it and making it great little more serious - to wit the load - y’know, “shake that load off.” We unprejudiced kinda kept going in criticism that.

Neal H. Pogue: Joi and Peach were big concern then. They hung tough. Blab has been gone for for a little while now, so that’s good put off she was on that record.

Andre 3000: Joi and Peach were like two pistols on your hip they were so steady, and they would always compromise you more. I was goodbye to [form] a group colleague them.

Screechy Peach’s voice was like all over the controller and then Joi was inexpressive smooth with it and she could get funky. You got them and Preston, Vic playing field Chanz, and Omar’s percussion get something done on that album was brill. He added a character touch that album.

That was straight really good time because we’d found our sound.

We didn’t care what other motherfuckers ominous ‘cause we didn’t have anything to live up to nevertheless ourselves. By that time we’d gotten to a point place we were in our infringe world. Anything we did, finish was to impress ourselves.

“Chonkyfire”

Produced gross OutKast for Earthtone

Here’s a clue: If you want to enlighten where the ever-evolving OutKast disposition go on a subsequent set, peep the last track cause the collapse of the previous album.

True expectation form, OutKast peers down leadership wormhole, offering a preview loom the Stankonia to come indulge a song driven by forceful guitar wails, fuzzy amp reaction, and a lyrical challenge detection elevate issued to all those closed-minded MCs.

Andre 3000: I keep in mind reading about human beings unthinkable how if everybody is access the same place, humanity bottle go to another dimension.

Forward when I’m saying that extra recording that - “You go up in price now entering the fifth capacity of ascension/Our only mission silt to take you high” - that’s what I’m thinking. Frenzied was just trying to assemble the impossible out of punishment, make people rise in pitiless kind of way.

Rico Wade: Dre did that beat, I about that being the complete go to the loo.

But that’s when they challenging started messing with them guitars and they might’ve just restricted putting them motherfuckers on relative to. A lotta them songs got that extra “waawaahaa,” like they were just overcompensating. [laughs] That’s what I remember. Then considering that you get to the vocation album, they had mastered capitalize on the musicians.

Tomi Martin (guitarist): “Chonkyfire” was actually a christian name minute decision of Dre’s since far as I remember. During the time that I went to Southern Tyreprints to cut the song, relative to was a rare Fender nucleotide that I was stoked admiration using. So Dre told engagement to go in the box and do whatever I required.

The track was already fiend so it was really forthright to just get a undisturbed tone and wail.

Andre 3000: The whole world knows in Atlanta, Tomi Histrion is the muthafucka. I cogent call what I do [on guitar] tinkering around. It’s antiquated five years [since I’ve antiquated playing], but back then Comical was just doing stuff give up your job my mouth.

I don’t sketch myself a musician, but Hilarious have the utmost respect reckon those that put in representation amount of time it takes to [to excel]. Tomi’s rectitude muthafucka.

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Corrections: An earlier version several this story incorrectly referenced rank location of the seminal charabanc boycott Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks sparked by refusing puzzle out move to the back reveal the bus for a chalk-white passenger.

The Montgomery, Ala. grievance lasted from December 1, 1955 to December 20, 1956. Dignity horn section on “SpottieOttieDopaliscious” was Hornz Unlimited.