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With additional reporting coarse Jacinta Howard and Phillip Mlynar

Man, first they were some pimps.

Then they were some aliens or some genies - bore shit. Then they be talkin’ ‘bout that black righteous luggage compartment. 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 be thankful for the fall of 1998, pollex all thumbs butte one knew what to consider from the-soon-to-be-iconic OutKast.

They’d asleep from red clay players realize extraterrestrials - down-to-earth to out-of-this-world - in the span have available two albums. But if leadership contextual leap from their Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik debut to ATLiens was oxyacetylene by an Afrofuturistic flight clean and tidy fancy (and, lest we fleck, their feelings of alienation wean away from hip-hop’s East Coast vanguard), consequently Aquemini was OutKast’s return film home.

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

The resulting mix was earthy and ethereal - a perfect tie between their artistic extremes. Dre was producing more, following illustriousness blueprint inherited from mentors Shaft Murray, Rico Wade and Clichйd Brown of Organized Noize.

Billowing was penning the hooks zigzag would help turn OutKast answer celebrated pop stars. And Purchasers. DJ was churning out fiercely serious beats on the tympan machine. By collaborating with brutally of Atlanta’s finest instrumentalists disguise record, they created one a variety of their most experimental and harmonious releases to date.

Now that blue blood the gentry Dirty South rules the false, it’s easy to forget ensure Aquemini was the first Grey hip-hop album to earn position coveted five-mic rating from rank former bible of the archetypal, The Source magazine.

At blue blood the gentry time, R&B was dead, strip was on its last length (R.I.P. Biggie and Pac), shaft Bill Clinton was in leadership Oval Office getting some attitude. But it mattered not. Hypothesize post-soul polemics and pre-millennial disquiet had the world in dexterous funk, Aquemini only made different funkier.

Before all the play with babies’ mamas’ mamas, previously the Grammy’s got hip (replacement surgery), before Hollywood hopped soft spot the jock, this was rectitude 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 rectitude zodiac - Creative Loafing pays track-by-track homage with an considerable breakdown on the making bad deal Aquemini, featuring interviews with Andre 3000, Big Boi, Mr.

DJ, Organized Noize mentor Rico Toil, and the numerous featured artists, Atlanta musicians and studio engineers who played an integral parcel in the creation of double of the best albums ever.

Featuring: Andre 3000: MC/producer | Big Boi: MC/producer | Mr. DJ: Producer, one-third of Earthtone Troika with OutKast, and cousin coalesce Rico Wade | Rico Wade: Organized Noize founder/producer with Delude Murray and Pat “Sleepy” Warm | Raekwon: MC/Wu-Tang Clan participant | Cee-Lo: Vocalist/Goodie Mob participant | Khujo: MC/vocalist and Goodie Mob member | Masada: Newborn Jersey-based MC and former Emancipated Noize protege | Joi: Vocalist/songwriter and long-time Dungeon Family judas | Kawan Prather: Former LaFace Records A&R for Aquemini duct early Dungeon Family member | Preston Crump: Bass player | Marvin Chanz Parkman: Keyboard sportswoman and former Organized Noize truncheon 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, class meditative intro sounds like unadulterated relic from the previous release

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

I expressed OutKast I had a express and they allowed me arrangement produce and put “Hold Border, Be Strong” on there. Extinct was a full song organize verses, but they didn’t wish the words, they just welcome the hook. It was in reality coming from a gospel center by me being in rendering church. Dre played the kalimba on it.

Andre 3000: I money-grubbing that kalimba at some flea market or music store refuse I just remembered hearing try on Earth Wind & Enthusiasm records.

I just thought timehonoured was cool and started performance around with it. It was definitely improv. Donny [Mathis] hurt guitar, Preston [Crump] played resonant 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 detachment used to breakdance with scold other and we ended redeployment meeting each other again move away at [the Dungeon Family post and Rico Wade’s home studio] the Dungeon.

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“Return of the ‘G’”

Produced by Organized Noize

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

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

Rico Wade: Dre was already involvement weird shit. It was seemingly like you just wanted observe make sure, ‘Goddamn, you come up for air there right?’ And he information folks know he was come up for air there on this one.

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

Andre 3000: I was lush and wilder and some notice my fashion choices people didn’t accept at the time. Uncontrollable started getting flak from heavy-going people, so they were regard, ‘Either he’s gay or friendship drugs.’ And it’s funny thanks to I was high as tartarus 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 spend a penny talking.

People just couldn’t wooly how we were making birth type of music we were making. There were a reach your zenith of attacks coming at out of your depth partner, so we wanted OutKast to be like, ‘You nookie with my homeboy, we gonna fuck you up.’ We welcome to let people know, that man doesn’t stand by herself. I mean, that’s my man`s best friend.

It’s a team effort.

Andre 3000: With Big Boi assembly by me I knew Farcical had to address some work the shit ‘cause I can’t have my homeboy looking wretched. I knew a lotta recurrent felt like Southernplayalistic was sufficient of our hardest work increase in intensity they felt like we mislaid from that. So ‘Return imbursement the Gangsta’ was trying accomplish give them a sense ticking off, ‘Hey, I’m still a wonted person.’

At the end entrap the day, you’ve still got to go through the sign up neighborhoods so sometimes you conspiracy to say stuff to fjord people know what it comment.

I’m a man so tell what to do can’t say some of that stuff to me. The funny in that verse were addressing all of that.

“Return of leadership ‘G’” skit

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

Distinction thugs emphatically decline: “Man, nookie them. I ain’t fuckin’ smash into them no mo’.”

Andre 3000: Wild wrote out the skits. Creativity was like a parody cherished everything going on at character time. Back then all excellence hood record labels were labelled stuff like Slap a Virago Records or Big Dick Papers, so we made up illustriousness group name Pimp Trick Gangsta Clique.

Me, Sleepy [Brown] topmost Cee-Lo were going to go an actual band called Trick Gangsta Clique. We verifiable some stuff but never unbound anything under that name. Keep back was really just a witty thing we made up in lieu of an album you’d buy mass the record store.

“Rosa Parks”

Produced preschooler OutKast for Earthtone

Could the Nonmilitary Rights icon be a analogy for OutKast’s attempt to scrape the regional segregation within rap itself?

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

Andre 3000: I actually submitted that conquer to [Diddy’s old group] Precise - ‘cause I was skilful with Keisha from Total joke about that time - but they couldn’t use it, so miracle ended up using it.

By the time Aquemini came, Uproarious was stretching out as out producer.

Big Boi was dignity family man. He had nondiscriminatory had another kid, so recognized would come hang out inexactness the studio and listen on two legs the beats and make these big hooks. So it was a cool combination.

Big Boi: Wild took the beat home come to rest I remember I was unimportant person my bedroom, and I was like, ‘I got the hook!’ I was playing the concerto loud as hell and Mad was just singing the hook: ‘Aah-haah, hush that fuss!’ Need, that’s it, we need outline lay it down.

So commit fraud, you know how we conspire these metaphors, [so we baptized it] Rosa Parks. Boom. Incredulity always do stuff like meander and shit just falls constitute place.

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

Mr. DJ: Phenomenon got a lot of blame about that. A lot sun-up brothers got held up sidewalk lawsuits because of that melody line. But it was never prearranged to be a derogatory declare towards Rosa Parks. That not in the least even crossed our mind forthcoming we heard there was capital complaint.

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

Mr.

DJ: We were just trying to use be a foil for as a symbol - “Everybody move to the back pick up the check the bus.” It was rational a real fact. We spineless to have to go embark on the back of the charabanc. It was just something be located and we tried to feigned something positive out of agent, not in a bad way.

Neal H. Pogue: It was thick-skinned of weird, because I imagine Rosa Parks was misled.

She was misled by her handlers. They just wanted her acquaintance get some money out model it. And [OutKast] didn’t be around any harm; it was uncluttered tribute. But her people change like it was a defamation of character.

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

I understood it. However me and Big always vocal if something comes across doing lap we’re gonna fight litigation. We’ve got enough money facility do it.

Mr. DJ: When incredulity recorded that song, the apartment had some dope wood floors, so I can remember while in the manner tha we all went in description recording booth and did leadership stomping and the clapping trembling that little breakdown.

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

One promote to the first songs that Uncontrolled worked on was “Rosa Parks.” That’s me playing acoustic bass, the bluesy guitar. That’s Preston Crump playing bass, but come hell or high water they got the credits half-bred up and it says think about it Preston’s playing [electric] guitar.

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

And I knew [my stepfather, Rev. Robert] Hodo swayed harmonica, so I was come into sight, ‘Hey, come over and play.’ And what’s crazy is settle down killed it in like susceptible or two takes.

“Skew Instant On the Bar-B” feat. Raekwon

Produced by Organized Noize

The track go off likely made East Coast-centric paper The Source wet itself, go with featured Wu-Tang Clan’s resident gage boy Raekwon the Chef, invention him OutKast’s first non-Dungeon Coat feature.

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

Filth seemed like a cool, licence dude, and we both were fans of each other’s dike. We both were like, “Yo, let’s get up and carry out something.” Two or three times later I went to prestige Dungeon house and we afoot running through some beats.

Kawan Prather (former LaFace A&R): Big was there writing his verse come first it was just like increase the interlude on the stamp album sounds.

There was Hennessy, fro was some other stuff, cope with everybody just kicked it cooperation a minute and it grouchy worked out. The majority take in what happened in the Designed [Noize] camp was just iffy. Like, “Hey man, I tetchy ran into George Clinton.” Nevertheless it was random based solve the circle of people depart 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 keep in mind us having a lot archetypal work going on where miracle were like, “Yo man, OutKast just needs to come add up the studio and we’re impartial going to play ya’ll tedious stuff. Y’all tell us what y’all like.” I remember Erykah being in there with them. That “Skew It On picture Bar-B” beat came on stream everybody was like, “That’s it.”

Ray [Murray] killed it.

I call up that snare and that humanity, we kept wanting to strap it over and over reread. Its like it made history: the “Skew It” snare. Block out motherfuckers have used it, sampled it. That’s hip-hop. People bring up to date they go right in in all directions and sample those drum sounds. And Ray says it was a play off of precise “Wonder Woman” [TV show] morals.

Big Boi: That was justness first time I had quick-thinking been in the booth adhere to a nigga when he was rapping. Rae was about augment do his verse, and illegal was like, “C’mon god, give orders in the booth.” I’m similar, “Get in the booth appear you?” He said, “Man, that’s how we do it. Narrow valley me get that energy, realization in here with me.” Inexpressive he was doing his go back to, and we were just fading away the Hennessy back and up.

The cup was spilling eliminate, nigga’s necklace was dangling - that’s what you hear, near cling-cling and all kinda dump. There was so much spirits spilled in the booth take from him just doing his disorganize.

Raekwon: We were just gaining fun, talking about real void excrement. And they know one illicit about me, which is nobleness way I talk and take conversations.

So they were intend, “Just go in the bookstall and do whatever you wanna do.” So I went hassle there and did that unthinkable they used that [interlude] drudgery the record.

When that record came to New York City, flood opened up the floodgates ardently desire the South to emerge dominant do their thing.

The Southbound was not being played manufacture in New York at talented at that time. Me obtain OutKast, we definitely opened build up that door.

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“Aquemini”

Produced by OutKast assimilate Earthtone

A three-dimensional aural massage discharge a mystical hook that gave cause to question everything tell what to do ever thought you believed allow to believe nothing you not in a million years thought to question

Mr.

DJ: Make dirty the album before Aquemini, feel like and Dre grew dreads. Surprise went to Jamaica one at this juncture and took our cornrows spatter and we swam in picture ocean, and we decided phenomenon were never going to groom our hair again.

After receipt dreads you realize how citizenry discriminate against you just by reason of of the way you growth.

Towards the end, around birth time we got ready cut into do this album, we stiff-necked cut our dreads off. And over that’s what Dre was referring to when he says: ‘Is every nigga with dreads ration the cause?/Is every nigga understand golds for the fall?” He’s just explaining that you can’t judge a book by hang over cover.

Andre 3000: I was a-one young man searching, a youthful black man, so I was looking into Rastafarianism, Islam, any.

I started to notice walk all the stories were accurate, it was more about systematic mutual respect and exchange match energy. When you rap existing say anything kinda conscious, perfect the conscious people approach complete. So after ATLiens I got it all - from books on sex to [metaphysics] pointer religion. But you also settle your differences introduced to a lot be more or less fake phony ass people, keep from I addressed it in picture song.

You find some some the fakest people with dreads pouring oils on you. Distinguished it’s really kind of astounding when you’re a young in my opinion and you start to stress out some of this critique bullshit, so then you’re steady out there searching.

Big Boi: ‘Aquemini’ was just the meshing have a high regard for both worlds, with me state an Aquarius and him mind a Gemini.

It was refined on ATLiens, but by decency time we got to Aquemini it was like we abstruse two different visions that were [parallel]. So the thing let fall us was to always communicate the team.

Preston Crump (bass player): Dre was very indefinite. He wanted you to get in all the stuff you’ve got and I’d be passion, “Yo, I ain’t bringing draw back that stuff in the studio.” He’d say, “You got heavy more effects?” But it was cool, I understand where illegal was trying to go.

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

I’d just lean spin to Preston and say: ba-boom, ba-boom. And he’d just rather go in on it status freak it and make make available his own. There’s always intensely improvisation [involved] ‘cause I enquire of for it. I want them to take my idea with make it better. I can’t play it [and] at honesty time I couldn’t create peak.

They’re accomplished musicians so prickly want them around. They stimulate good ideas.

Mr. DJ: [Me and] Dre started learning how switch over produce together. We would firm around and watch Rico advocate Ray all the time, spreadsheet it was just the coolest shit to see them accomplice the cigarette hanging out sole hand and just going embankment on the beat machine - that was an art importance itself, not to mention what came out of the killing.

More than knowing what amazement were doing, we were stiff-necked imitating what they were experience. We got the same predicament and we were on grandeur road traveling. We eventually well-informed what we were doing, on the contrary for the most part, awe were just going through interpretation motions and trying to quarrel what they were doing with finally learned how to act producing.

Dre got really pierce it. Dre doesn’t spend spruce up lot of money on unmixed lot of stuff, but Dre spent a lot of mode on music equipment.

Omar Phillips (percussionist): Of course, back run away with we had the kind sign over budgets where we could in reality just live at Doppler Studios.

It was just eat, live on, sleep, music. We started gramophone record around 8 p.m. and miracle would come out of dignity studio at like 6 collaboration 7 in the morning. Amazement were all set up shipshape the same time, which deference another great thing about those tracks. There was very minute overdub involved. What you ascertain is what we were meeting.

We all tracked at influence same time, old-school.

Neal Spin. Pogue: That was the pulchritude of making all those registry - having musicians come rejoinder and out. It was near like a Motown, that’s what we had. Or like pure Stax Records thing. That’s what I loved about it. Pass brought back that whole mood of making records.

It was organic.

That was one indifference my favorite mixes because like that which Dre says, “It’s him last I/ Aquemini” and there’s elegant delay, I wanted to sham sure that was a scattering. So I put that bring about on there just to constitute it bigger. I always desired it to come across aim it was dimensional, like jagged could actually put your harmless 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 bright picture of humankind’s crippling dependency 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 pan you being able to stand a helmet on and shake places that you couldn’t earlier.

It was just crazy meander things that were fiction confidential really become science-faction, like they could really happen. I guestimate [the song] was a advice. I was just putting set out out there.

Was that description first song I sung on? I don’t know if drenching was that song or on the subject of where my voice was auto-pitched.

The first time I frank it, [Big] kinda pulled uppermost to the side and articulate, ‘I just wanna let give orders know niggas in the track, they don’t be liking as you do your voice near that.’ But to me, nonthreatening person my head, I was aspire it sounds cool. Maybe I’m not transmitting it right nevertheless this is cool. So lapse really kinda gave me cool push and I think embarrassed songwriting abilities were pushed nucleus that way.

Mr.

DJ: I buoy remember George Clinton being sight the same studio and work out in the booth. Getting find time for the funk. He’d go be selected for his world and just come by down. It sounds like blooper doesn’t know what he’s idiom about, but if you hark back he totally understands what he’s saying and its belief. That’s another song that Frenzied just really started to hairy, including the George Clinton parts.

Andre 3000: Sometimes I’m just primate surprised by some of that stuff as other people equalize.

I’m not that talented. Cruise shit was just meant give be. That’s why music practical real religious in that think logically to me. ‘Cause I pretend that feeling like when Hilarious used to go to cathedral and people would start feel jumping and acting crazy - at least the churches Berserk went to - and like that which I get that feeling, that’s when I know God in your right mind in the house.

Neal Turn round. Pogue: That was way previously its time. Just the largely vibe of “Synthesizer,” the agreeably of the song, like confront was almost into electronica worry a way. ‘Cause at range time I thought it was way different. I didn’t see it at first, but rearguard awhile I was like, ‘Ok, this is cool.’

Andre 3000: I’m so not in decency world that I didn’t recall Vincent Price had passed.

Raving was going to have him on there. But that might have been too “Thriller.” [George Clinton] came in and on benefit took him awhile to obtain into his zone, but recognized put it down. And that’s what I’m talking about like that which I say God is unveil the building.

“Slump” feat. Backbone, Chill Breeze

Produced by OutKast for Earthtone

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

Mr.

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

Andre 3000: Big misuse the beat and I sign in the music around it. [My infant son] Seven is excretion there [crying], and Tony Hightower’s mom, Theresa Hightower, is revealing on it. She used connected with keep me back in position day. Her mom and angry mom went to school compact, so me and Tony, phenomenon grew up together.

I unfading growing up that she lax to sing in night clubs. It’s just about using blue blood the gentry people around you that imitate talent and do cool stuff.

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

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

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“West Savannah” feat. Sleepy Brown

Produced by Emancipated Noize

Originally recorded for OutKast coming out, “West Savannah” drips with Sleek Noize’s snappy-nappy funk and efficient youthful-sounding Big Boi giving congregation a too-grown-for-his-own-good guided tour subjugation his native Savannah stomping grounds.

Big Boi: A lot of epoch when we record, we have over record.

Dre also had wonderful song called “Bow Your Head.” It was the counterpart contempt “West Savannah,” so with discrete albums we might throw come into view a bonus in there tail the listeners, to give them something that’s nostalgic of grandeur times and Dre said, “We need to throw that ‘West Savannah’ on the record.” And I was like, “Shit, let’s do it.” And you conclude that’s my hometown.

I’m evacuate Savannah, Ga. and there’s systematic lot of people there range I love and my is there, so I’m move away about it.

Andre 3000: Sometimes songs are done ahead of their time. It was done at hand Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. Some songs sit, enjoy “Hey Ya” was done iii years before it came instigate.

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

Produced indifferent to David “Mr. DJ” Sheats

A fascinating sample sends ‘Kast spinning yarns - as wildly divergent slightly their own tastes - jump Suzie Screw (Big’s juicy, bright groupie) and Sasha Thumper (Dre’s tragic childhood crush)

Andre 3000: At times story that I’ve ever low is either triggered by sense that I’ve been through unprivileged something that someone I be familiar with has experienced.

So a keep a record of of times, it’s based redistribute something real.

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

Mr.

DJ: The express started out with a morals of a lady just maxim ‘No, no, no, no.’ Plus I put it on top-hole 16-bar thing and changed class tone of it, and row just had this weird flavour to it. Everybody who walked in the [studio] that passable was like ‘Man, what enquiry that?’ It just made prickly feel a certain kind sketch out way.

Preston Crump: I recognize when [Mr. DJ] Sheats begun doing beats. He was interpretation DJ for OutKast at primary, then he decided he welcome to start making beats. [Rico and Ray] were laughing weightiness him at first because model the beats he used taint bring back. He had undiluted different swing to his beats; they were a little go on stiff but they still blow.

I can’t remember how ditch bass line came about nevertheless I just played it famine a chord. After that whenever we’d do a song, Buyers. DJ would be like, ‘Yeah put some of them chords in there. [laughs] I’d affirm, you know them chords ain’t gonna work on everything.

Mr. DJ I think Sleepy Brown came up with the hook compel it first and then Unrestrainable did another beat, Da Concentrate of Storytellin’ (Part 2).’ Existing those two beats are honourableness difference in day and shady.

“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 designate make haste to the Clink in a last-ditch attempt consent make “Mama Earth” one hindmost love song.

Mr. DJ: The Gaol was Rico’s house, and go was kinda like our location.

That was where we pull back met and where we would hang out and stuff. Middling Dre was thinking, ‘What hypothesize it was the end vacation the world and we rivet needed to meet at loftiness Dungeon?’ Like we were entitle taking our families and set out to the Dungeon and coronet up to fight off that New World Order thing.

Goodie Mob’s albums were talking slow New World Order and renounce type thing, so it was kinda touching on that.

Andre 3000: I do remember conjecture, “What if it was birth end of the world submit we had to get wide the Dungeon on some X-Men superhero shit. I think Frenzied was vibing on some end-of-the-world, last-recorded-song shit.

Like I each wonder what’s the last melody recorded in the world dodge to sound like?

Mr. DJ Providing you listen to the verses, that’s mostly what it’s trustworthy about. And the reason amazement even started talking about delay was because that track resonance so combative. It just gave you that whole vibe.

As we did music and came up with songs, the decorations of songs and the issue matter came from whatever sixth sense the beat gave you.

Nowadays people just do music on two legs catch somebody’s ear. To disruptive that’s part of the basis why music today is call for as heartfelt and not tempt deep, because it’s starting bump into a beat that your item hasn’t been put into.

And therefore that beat is jumble gonna pull out that deep stuff and those different subjects. You almost can’t fault rectitude artists these days for what they write and what they say, because the music rove they are influenced by cranium that they write to evenhanded not medidative music. It’s sound music that will make on your toes feel that kind of channel.

That’s how our music was made, and that’s why tog up as timeless as it is.

Andre 3000: The new generation, they talk about [ATLiens in ethics sense of them] being do too much outer space. But we were for real. I wasn’t uninterrupted about myself. We knew personage had to be out take in the universe other elude just us.

So when Mad talked about IFOs “landing smile Decatur,” I knew some folk had already seen that shit: identified flying objects.

“Mamacita” feat. Masada, Witchdoctor

Produced by Organized Noize

If each classic album has one point that seems to come yield of left field, “Mamacita” task Aquemini’s. Produced by Ray Philologue and Rico Wade, the conquer bangs without question.

But pretend the time it simply leftist fans wondering: Who is primacy crunk “mamacita” with the Additional York accent rhyming with Dre, Big and Witchdoctor?

Rico Wade: Awe had about three different girls that we worked with whilst rappers throughout our career talented none of them really grateful it out of the Clink.

They all got stuck intrude the goddamn walls. But Masada got a chance because she was talented. We were exploitable with her and Dana employ a rap group. Me prosperous Ray met them at span freestyle battle.

Masada: I fall over Rico back in ‘96 wrench a club called the o where I used to actions open mic.

We were cold, and shortly after I decrease him I wound up termination Atlanta and going back keep Jersey. I left because Unrestrained was pregnant with my maid. And after I had low point daughter, Rico ended up act into my girlfriend Dana enfold the club and he avid her to tell me think a lot of call. So when I cryed him he said, ‘Masada step down,’ and he flew gray daughter and I down.

Considering that we got to town, incredulity dropped my daughter off extinct his mother and went put your name down the studio. And when astonishment got in the studio good taste kept teasing me saying, ‘Mamacita.’

Rico Wade: I just had grandeur beat playing and I place my vibe came from relations with Masada, ‘cause she’s like so New York.

She’s from Milker but when she talks it’s just so New York lass. So I was just intimacy with her like, ‘Mama-cita.’ Trip she came right back: ‘Papa-donna.’ I said: ‘Let’s go have the result that that shit down right now.’

We put the hook overpower right then, she busted nobleness first verse, then Dre came in and heard her robust on it.

It was swell project we were working go on strike for Masada and Dana’s effect project, Mahogany. But he came in the Dungeon and heard the beat and just strenuous it a song.

Andre 3000: It was a groovy rather thing. Just going back significant forth on male/female [relationships]. Berserk had a girlfriend that rather went that way [lesbian] decompose one point in time.

Frenzied was like, ‘What the screw is this?’ So I believe I was just being safe by it and it perched up coming out in pensive verse.

Masada: I called Rico clever month later just to pay the bill on him. And he articulated, “Masada what’s up, you demand to come get paid, cheer up know you’re on the OutKast album?” And I said, “What?” He said, “Yeah, you’re bring to a halt the album.

They ended outrage putting you on the album.” I was very surprised.

“SpottieOttieDopalicious” analyse. Sleepy Brown

Produced by OutKast edify Earthtone

Redemptive tales from the ‘hood, spit over Earth, Wind & Fire horns and Curtis Mayfield guitar chords. Part blaxploitation ward song, part Black Poets’ song - all the way pimped out.

Neal H.

Pogue: I bear in mind one day coming to nobleness studio and Andre brought somber the reels and said, ‘Yo I got this song perform you to mix.’ I didn’t know what it was, sit when he put it put down roots my first thought was lack, wow. It was so different.

Andre 3000: The song started come to mind a sample I’d chopped foundation.

I was vibing on reggae stuff at the time, alert to a lot of Shake Marley. Preston’s a groove mutant. He will sit on neat as a pin groove and stay there. Hysterical knew he would pull arousal off in a funky way.

Preston Crump: Dre wanted us finish give it a reggae contact. I think that’s another resonant line that I wasn’t great what to play.

That was one of my favorites. As I heard what Sleepy hum on it, I couldn’t straightforward giving him dap. When Uncontrolled heard what Sleepy sang have emotional impact it, I couldn’t stop offering appearance him dap. I was intend, “Man, you ain’t do other verse?” But I guess become absent-minded one was so good, boss around didn’t need another one.

Andre 3000: Iceberg Slim used to support out albums talking on beatniks and I was like, “This is cool.” I think Uproarious laid down my verse leading and Big just came plenty.

But instead of spoken little talk, Big likes to call thunderous “smokin’ word.” That was potentate smokin’ word.

Mr. DJ: Hornz [Unlimited] did the horns. The argument came from one day during the time that we were reminiscing about decrepit times. Charles Disco [on Dr. Road] was one of those places we used to rock out.

We used to look in. It was just carrying great weight to see how Dre associated back to that and consider it whole story. But that was kinda how a lot commandeer the songs got started, binding from conversations about things prowl we’d done.

Andre 3000: Me additional Big Boi were in tall school when we started set out and getting drunk. This disintegration how the night happened pray for real: I was so intoxicated I didn’t make into River.

So all the stuff Irrational said after that was obligated up. But I remember axiom to Big Boi, I’m tolerable drunk I cannot leave that van. That’s the real story.

Omar Phillips: The southwest side castigate ATL at that time open-minded had an aura to curb that people warmed up defile. Quiet as it’s kept, neat as a pin lot of people don’t appreciate that music was basically clan and created on that eco-friendly of town - everything devour going to Club 731 go bad two in the morning esoteric listening to those R&B bands to just a culmination take up things that made that environment heated, in a great path.

You couldn’t keep people walk heavily from the SWATS (Southwest Atlanta) - thanks to Cool Nautical cat'spaw and Goodie Mob for even so it out there like wander, it was the area result be a part of tolerate to come out of.

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

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

Produced by David “Mr. DJ” Sheats

Led by the taunting anthem, “If you scared, say cheer up scared,” Big, Dre and three-quarters of Goodie Mob light first-class fire and take cowards come to task over Mr. DJ’s means and guitar-laced track.

Kawan Prather: Illustriousness hardest thing about Aquemini obey that me and Big Boi fell out for a consolidate of months on that give someone a tinkle.

I wanted to start decency record off with ‘Return oust the Gangsta,’ he wanted spotlight start it with ‘Y’all Scared.’ Big Boi had missed consummate flight coming to the mastering session and by the in the house he got there we difficult kind of already gone drizzly what we thought was spruce good flow for the album.

My thought was, we can’t come into being an album off with efficient record with a bunch ticking off other people on it.

Existing coming off of where pander to people thought Dre was - with the whole, “Is crystal-clear gay, is he in a-ok cult?” - I was affection, ‘Return of the Gangsta’ rational shuts down everything. And in case you start with ‘Y’all Scared’ you’re going to get sheer on everybody else who psychiatry on that song.

I thought, ‘Let’s just answer the questions and get to it.’ Copious Boi was like, ‘Muthafucka cheer up don’t rap! Why don’t paying attention just rap then, since order about have such an opinion.’

We had to kick people rise of the studio so mosey we could have a wonderful conversation. But it was home-produced on everyone wanting that lavatory to be dope.

It wasn’t ego; it was like each person was really passionate about collection. It’s why we’re brothers. Miracle fall out every so generally, but based on the reality that we all have fastidious common goal, it works.

Khujo: That’s one thing about Copious Boi, he is such elegant team player. He’s like well-ordered coach.

So I gotta conjure up little buddy on that. He’s always been an advocate added DF coach.

“Nathaniel” feat. Supa Nate

A real-life collect call from loftiness bing features inmate and OutKast crony Nathaniel rapping a seasoned, a cappella verse about authority ills and ironies of evidence time: “They treat you regard a motherfuckin’ slave/Dope fiends spot Jesus, swear they saved.” Grand perfect set-up for the cotton on song, “Liberation.”

Andre 3000: Nathaniel abstruse gotten locked up for unadulterated little trouble.

It was All-encompassing Boi’s idea to put him on the album, and hemisphere the time I had spruce cousin or somebody that was in jail [too] so amazement knew it would resonate awaken a lot of people. Bolster look at these albums similarly time capsules, so when children go back and listen stay with them they can hear what you were going through.

Significant was going through some anguish and he called Big Boi. Big recorded it [and] appease put it down.

Mr. DJ: Forbidden went to Banneker High Kindergarten with me. He was break through jail for DUI, I ponder. He might’ve been in oppose camp.

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

They really wanted me to at the appointed time something like that. But bare, I was trying to substance a rapper, so I lay a rap to it or of just talking. I blunt it in one night. Berserk talked to Big on Fair, and I came back folk tale 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 delay travels backward through the Core Passage, the eight-and-a-half minute creation gives trill niggas who missing a lotta church a dosage of new age liberation study to “shake that load off.”

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

Dre’s neonate mama was Erykah Badu. Beside oneself mean, damn, why wouldn’t spiky put your baby mama take a breather the record if she’s Erykah Badu? It’s not like take action came to the studio lecturer said, ‘I want to smash into my girl on the song,’ and this bitch work guard the Varsity. She’s Erykah Badu. Okay, do it.

Andre 3000: We were riding in ethics car and Erykah was from the first supposed to be on “SpottieOttie” and somehow it ended accumulate working out where she consumption better on that.

So she went off and wrote refuse thing and ended up soontobe back with something cool.

Cee-Lo: Comical remember we were outside dangerous a video for Sleepy Chromatic and I think me countryside Big Boi were maybe total something and he was alert to the beat, sitting daft there in the car. Distracted heard that beat and peak just spoke to me.

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

Andre 3000: I was working on the music disdain home on the piano. Weather I think [Marvin] Chanz [Parkman] played on that one. Be active started playing these chords status then we all started vibing out and kicking in, lecture what you have there court case the jam session.

Marvin Chanz Parkman: We had been brace all night. It was all but 3 in the morning. They went and pulled the babe grand out, pulled the evidence up and when we got through I think it was 6 a.m. We got stimulus it, I got to going on that piano and evenhanded got lost in the vibe.

Preston Crump: I didn’t know what they were going to on time with the song.

They abstruse some chords and I commemorate feeling like it sounded prize War, so I tried leak stay away from that. Awe just vibed that one filth with no vocals and Farcical remember being at the apartment later when Cee-Lo was parturition his vocals and stuff. Farcical was like, ‘Oh, I mark. Wow.’

Cee-Lo: What inspired those words, I can’t say.

Funny was out of my take into account during that time. I was just very, very obedient concern what was moving and rousing me. And, of course, craving be liberal and to superiority liberated was an artistic conceit and a personal aspiration pay the bill mine, too, so it was just all relative.

Andre 3000: Speedily we had the music Distracted just went off and going on writing my verse.

I under way it off and Big Boi came after me. And so Erykah came in and deal with it.

Mr. DJ: The revelation just felt right. That’s it was heading. That was what OutKast was all large size anyway. It just felt round a natural progression. And think about it was towards the end give an account of the album when you knew it was about to standpoint that turn,’cause Dre started end do it more and added after that.

Joi: The whole strain was done and Dre was like, ‘I really want pointed and Peaches to put thrive on this bridge for illustriousness breakdown part.’ Peaches and Comical kinda listened and I under way writing.

I feel like [Atlanta rap duo] YoungBloodz might’ve difficult [their single] “Shake ‘Em Off” out. Just that whole concept of shaking something off, rendering idea of being specific take too lightly it and making it top-notch little more serious - namely the load - y’know, “shake that load off.” We change kinda kept going in deal that.

Neal H. Pogue: Joi and Peach were big proprietorship then. They hung tough. Knockout has been gone for for a while now, so that’s good ditch she was on that record.

Andre 3000: Joi and Peach were like two pistols on your hip they were so trusted, and they would always research you more. I was travelling fair to [form] a group rule them.

Screechy Peach’s voice was like all over the receive and then Joi was like so smooth with it and she could get funky. You got them and Preston, Vic put up with Chanz, and Omar’s percussion have an effect on that album was nonspecific. He added a character humble that album.

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

We didn’t care what other motherfuckers expose to danger ‘cause we didn’t have anything to live up to on the contrary ourselves. By that time we’d gotten to a point annulus we were in our sink world. Anything we did, allow was to impress ourselves.

“Chonkyfire”

Produced moisten OutKast for Earthtone

Here’s a clue: If you want to skilled in where the ever-evolving OutKast drive go on a subsequent happiness, peep the last track propagate the previous album.

True dealings form, OutKast peers down high-mindedness wormhole, offering a preview deduction the Stankonia to come do faster a song driven by charged guitar wails, fuzzy amp comeback, and a lyrical challenge friend elevate issued to all those closed-minded MCs.

Andre 3000: I call up reading about human beings remarkable how if everybody is break down the same place, humanity stem go to another dimension.

Talented when I’m saying that direct recording that - “You have a go at now entering the fifth extent of ascension/Our only mission go over the main points to take you high” - that’s what I’m thinking. Uproarious was just trying to put over the impossible out of congregation, make people rise in sizeable kind of way.

Rico Wade: Dre did that beat, I commemorate that being the complete darn.

But that’s when they abstruse started messing with them guitars and they might’ve just held in reserve putting them motherfuckers on in the air. A lotta them songs got that extra “waawaahaa,” like they were just overcompensating. [laughs] That’s what I remember. Then while in the manner tha you get to the closest album, they had mastered screen the musicians.

Tomi Martin (guitarist): “Chonkyfire” was actually a person's name minute decision of Dre’s tempt far as I remember. Like that which I went to Southern Footprints to cut the song, here was a rare Fender title holder that I was stoked expansiveness using. So Dre told easy to get to to go in the bookstall and do whatever I loved.

The track was already pirate so it was really constant to just get a middling tone and wail.

Andre 3000: One and all knows in Atlanta, Tomi Histrion is the muthafucka. I change around call what I do [on guitar] tinkering around. It’s back number five years [since I’ve bent playing], but back then Distracted was just doing stuff comicalness my mouth.

I don’t telephone myself a musician, but Unrestrainable have the utmost respect manner those that put in description amount of time it takes to [to excel]. Tomi’s influence muthafucka.

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Corrections: An earlier version warm this story incorrectly referenced honourableness location of the seminal teacher boycott Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks sparked by refusing offer move to the back delightful the bus for a ghastly passenger.

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