In my humble opinion the HARDEST Instrumental without a sample in HipHop History, the percussion, baseline and horns on this record are NUTS! Never-mind the legendary Vocals with Outkast and Sleepy Brown!
I was in college in Atlanta when this album dropped. Walking around in the West End and watching vintage cadillacs booming with this track was a scene.
Me too. I was at Morris Brown taking the AUC shuttle to the West End. That was a great time to be in Atlanta. That year (1998) We had a joint homecoming concert with Morehouse and OutKast was the headliners. Great times!
1998… I was a freshman in college when this came out… Jammed this all the way back to school from Houston to Huntsville sipping syrup and smoking lol. My brother chose to buy the Tela album and I bought the Outkast… that was a helluva year as far as music is concerned
I was in high school when Aquemini dropped & maaan, I wore that album OUT! Specifically SpottieOttie. --And to be in the marching band at the time, we knew we had to play it in the stands...and we did! Good times, great memories! Thanks, Outkast! #Aquemini25
@@ThePrepAquatic In Florida too. South Florida to be specific. We had good bands that were really good; even middle school when I was growing up. I just remember my high school and other bands playing this song during half time, parades, and other performances. I then saw college bands also do the same. It was special.
@Shay31288 Battery Creek HS, Beaufort, SC. We were a corps-style band at the time, but the black band members got together, practiced, & played it during a football game (unbeknownst to our white band director). He was tomato-face red MAD! 😂 He motioned for us to stop playing, but the crowd was hype, we were hype, & we continued.
The fact that the horn section was an original melody. That's hard to do. Most music is sampled and interpolated. And now this is referenced so much in music. Classic is an understatement.
When I was a kid I always thought it was a sample.. super impressed, if hip hop artist had all been as creative as OutKast, hip hop would still be alive today, unfortunately it’s long dead
I was gonna say every OutKast album from SPCM to Speakerboxxx/The Love Below and even a few select on Idlewild was the best songs from Atlanta, but I guess Spottieottiedopalicious counts, too. Lol
Nah, I'm from Atlanta and while this is a certified classic, so much hip hop has come out from the city in recent times. Trap rap was born here and it's hard to choose from anyone.
@@bb-double-yuhI 💯% Agree. To say that this one song is the greatest song ATLANTA ever put out is a diss to every song and album Outkast has ever made besides Spottieottiedopaliscious.
SpottieOttie and Liberation have had a more profound effect on my mind and life than any other music ever produced. It's not even music... It's life that's been condensed down into an auditory wave length that crashes on my brain at the same same time as it cradles my soul. There are other things in this world that move me, but this entire album, from alpha to omega, moves me at the same time as it makes my roots grow. My Anthem.
This song is so cold that I could watch a full-length movie about the creation of this song! I can't say that about too many songs. That's the magic of Outkast!!
This entire album was driven, mainly by instrumentation and to this day is one of the best rap albums ever. Liberation is another great one, oh and ATLiens is right up there with it! That definitely don’t make ‘‘em like this no mo!
This video is so important. Thank you Rolling Stone for giving Big Boi and Sleepy Brown the opportunity to explain how this amazing song came together.
Outkast makes me so proud to have grown up in Fulton county Atlanta when the were putting all of this amazing music out. I get emotional when I listen to their music because it brings back so many great memories of that time period. These guys are my heros there will never be anyone like them one of a kind group.
1996 was the year that I graduated high school! When OutKast came out I remember saying to myself… WOW!!!!! Dopest of all time and I am FOREVER GRATEFUL for them.
I knew this song was a masterpiece when I first listened to it when I was 11 in 6th grade. Still one of my all time favorites. Takes me back to going to play basketball with my girlfriend at the time and then going to the mall and getting her sbarro and me teriyaki chicken after the game. Life was so simple and amazing back then.
Definition of a Classic 25 years later and it still feel like 98 whenever I hear it! The vibe stops you in your tracks and commands your full attention and respect! 🙌🏾❤🖤💚🎼🫂
No samples on this song is crazy. Very talented group of musicians. This song definitely one of my favorites, became theme music for me a lot of nights 😂
I was like 18 when I 1st heard this track- my best friend just got her 1st apartment and a whole bunch of us- a true motley crew were blazing when this came on 🔥
@@Kibilmac1 You should be ashamed of yourself for one, not knowing when that album came out, but two, not even doing your research before spewing your ignorance
No cap, when I first heard this record I didn’t know what to make of it. I was that blown away because at the time I never heard a hip-hop record like that….shid it really wasn’t hip-hop. I timeless masterpiece.
I finally got it!!! After years of wondering how it was made. I just wish I would have been able to witness it all come together. At least this video brought me that much closer✊🏾💯
Outkast is one of the greatest hip hop groups ever! This track was so dope too! It is still in heavy rotation in my car as well as when I have my business events and will always be.
How have I missed this joint? word.... fire..... ahead of its time ❤🔥... incorporates a load of musical genres... brilliant.... im downloading it now...
The instruments on that particular song was so unique it was a refreshing sound from beginning to the end it puts me in the mind of a hot late night peaceful night riding with the top down cruising slow enjoying the city scene getting a good mental stimulation
I still remember the exact moment I heard that song. I was visiting some of my boys at North Hall at NC State University. Everyone was in a dorm room kinda hanging out an as I walked up someone was playing the Aquemini CD....and that song came on. I was like ..... WHAT IS THIS!!!!
Man I still remember parking up the cadillac, sparking up some of that gas and blasting this song on repeat and getting lost in the vibe. One of my all time favorite songs of all time. Sometimes I forget about it and then get to rediscover it over and over. That song is a time machine right back to my twenties 💯
This has always been one of the dopest songs ever,but the way they break it down , this is one of the greatest songs ever to not be mentioned with them all timers
For a lot of music, you know where you were or what you were doing when you heard a particular record. SpottieOttie is different. So different that it took you on a astral trip and you have no clue where you were or what you were doing when you heard that song. You were in the cloud. It still hits the same til this day!!! Nothing has changed about how you feel when you hear it. It's the same feeling you had from day one.
I was fresh out of high school when Aquemini came out and me and my friends would debate back and forth and argue about were those actually real horns on Spottieottiedopaliscious and by me being a huge lover of jazz music and real instruments I've always thought the horns were real brass horns but a friend of mine thought it was keyboard horns because it sounded too precise. I was blessed to be growing up in Atlanta when all of Outkast's albums came out and their albums especially the first three are the soundtrack of my youth, great times. 👌🏽
Big shout out to VICK the drummer and OMAR PHILLIPS (RIP) the percussionists of this LEGENDARY SONG ! ❤ so thankful to have had them play on our song “Pink Starburst” !
That horn section is definitely reminiscent of southern high school and HBCU sound. That's why it hit so different. If you ain't from the South, you might not understand. 💯
