Outkast: From ATLiens To Aquemini 

Bigboi deserves more praise such a underrated rapper

When you listen to Outkast, you get hip hop, funk, soul, rock, jazz, country, etc. They set the bar higher on every album.

It's dead ass the coldest 3 album run I can think of to date

André 3000's outro at the end of the song 13th Floor/Growing Old, from their ATLiens album, was originally the hook for the song but they changed it and Debra Killings did a different hook instead. Rico Wade, who's one of the producer's of the song, said "We were listening to a bunch of Sade and stuff at the time. We had Marqueze write the hook for it. But the original hook was the end of Growing Old where it's fading out and we have André doing, 'See all them leaves must fall down, growing old…' That was the hook that they originally wrote to it, and we changed it."

Aquemini is their greatest album to me, everyone including organized noise grew to their prime on it. From beginning to end classic. ATLiens is dope to don’t get me wrong. I was in Brooklyn when their first album dropped and I was amazed they were from Atlanta. From that day I knew hip hop was going to change

OutKast was dope asf still love them.been a fan since they came out when I was in high school.

You should definitely do Stankonia and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below but, you have to throw in The Dungeon Family album Even in Darkness because that is the bridge that ties both albums.

"ATLiens" has more classics then "Aquemini" and is an underrated classic album. It's my favorite album from them. :)

Aquemini is my absolute favorite Outkast album💿

i absolutely love outkast, they definitely left their imprint in music

The beat for Player's Ball was originally for a group called The Drip Drop. Rico Wade, who's one of the producer's of the song, said "Player's Ball was for a Christmas album, so when [LaFace Records co-founder] L.A. Reid called me he was like, 'I need y'all to do a Christmas song.' And we had just kind of got the LaFace deal with OutKast, and this was the first thing he called and asked for. "Thing is, we don't really fuck with Christmas like that. That's where we were at the time, we were on some, 'Christmas is not one day out the year, it's every day.' For us, it was just about being realistic. People get caught up in the excitement of, 'I got to buy this, I got to do this and that” and they lose they mind. Our thing was, why wait till a certain time of the year? Every day you need to do something. And if it was Jesus birthday, of course it would be cool, but since we know it's not, whatever. But anyway, I told OutKast, 'We gotta do a Christmas, song but we'll just talk about what we don't do on Christmas, or what it means to us.' And while we were in the studio working on it, I had to go meet Ray at another session, cause he was working on a song for this group called The Drip Drop. I went over to the studio and I heard the beat he was doing. We took that beat and took it to the studio and turned it up. We ended up using that for Player's Ball. There were samples at the beginning, and we were like, 'We know we can't clear these samples' so that's when we got Big Rube to talk on the beginning. But that song ended up jumping off OutKast's career."

OutKast was so big they didn’t need nyc radio.I wish groups in the 90s focused on college radio more.

I remember when Elevators was in rotation on the radio back in summer 96'

Greatest group of all time, any genre.

i remember hearing the song " rosa parks" on the radio, when i was like 11 or so. 1998 i guess. i fell in love instantly. i remember sitting around the radio, around the same time i heard it the first time, hoping it would come on so i could record it on to a cassette tape lol i was eventually able to trick my mom in to thinking because the parental advisory sticker was smaller than the huge one on the no limit records tapes i was trying to buy, meant it didnt have many cuss words. i would listen to the tape everyday. my cousin 4 years older was big in to gangstarr and tribe and outkast. he let me borrow southernplayalisticadillacmuzik and atliens. then stankonia came out. i remember everytime hed come pick me up for us to go out, id asked him to put stankonia on. hed make fun of me cause i would always request the " gangster shit" song lmao... speaker boxx and love below, both crazy good in their own right. love the song " a life in the day of benjamin andre". i had the dungeon family album, the purple ribbon all stars, and the dre and big boi presents cd. hands down my favorite group, artist/s, fucking whatever you wanna call them. i have 2 tattoos paying homage to them. no matter the day or the mood, i can always put an outkast song on and feel a different type of way.

I love music of all genres and ATLiens is my all time favorite album.

Atliens was them at their peak…one of the best hip hop albums ever…

My homie has a theory as to why Andre 3000 started dressing that way. He says that Andre always held those thoughts to express that way but he was smoking and drinking. So my homie says Andre would dismiss those thoughts by saying, "Naw I'm high...I'm trippin...I ain't dressing like that." But when he stop smoking, he didn't have any catalyst to blame the thoughts upon...so he expressed. Lol. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Mane, where do I begin... Well, me being born in 1989, I was only 5 years old when their debut dropped, 7 when ATLiens came out, and 9 when Aquemini came out. I knew of OutKast from the songs on the radio and their unique and influential videos like, Elevators (Me & You), ATLiens, and later Rosa Parks and B.O.B (Bombs Ova Baghdad). Even though I didn't really get their style, I knew the meaning and concept of OutKast, especially when you see Big Boi in regular rapper clothes and jewelry and André 3K would be wearing some shit you saw Parliament Funkadelic would wear on stage back in day. Their flows and rhyme schemes were different from each other AND other groups, which made them stand out. Then, as I got older, I started listening to them more and really got them and their whole vision. I didn't listen to their 1st album until 2013-'14 and I was blown away from song 1, because of their humble beginnings in the game and you can already tell they had something to say FRFR. The G.O.A.T.s of Southern Hip Hop/Rap

Being from Florida I remember the first time I heard outcast! I went to Georgia just to try to see them when I was 18 but of course no dice. I did see them in concert though and they gave a hell of a show! One of the best groups to ever do it!