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OutKast – Intro
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(O-U-T-K-A-S-T) / [André 3000] / Live, from the center of the Earth / Seven light-years below sea level we go / Welcome to Stankonia, the place from which all funky things come
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OutKast – You May Die (Intro)
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Intro to OutKast’s 1996 album ATLiens. The track has been sampled in many other hip-hop songs, most notably Ab-Soul’s “Beautiful Death”, and Young Buck’s “The City”.
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OutKast – Peaches (Intro)
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The first album cut on the legendary duo’s first album features a spoken word skit laced with Southern slang courtesy of the artist Peaches.
The instrumental is a sample of the
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OutKast – The Love Below (Intro)
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[Intro] / Some say Atlanta / Some say New York / Some say Paris, France / But, who knows / Where this flower grows?
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OutKast – Camp Fire Intro
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This track introduces Outkast’s mixture of lyrical acuity, goofball humor, Southern drawl, and legitimate offbeat personalities. A new listener will be intrigued to listen to the
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OutKast (Ft. Janelle Monáe) – Intro (Idlewild)
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[André 3000] / Ah, yes, well, I myself, Larry Olivier, am a method actor, and I studied at the prestegious school of Julliard, and, you know, I feel as if, you know, the rappers
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Forté – The Outkast (Intro)
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[Chorus: Miss Simone] / I don't know what you been told but I can't go away / I bet down on my luck I'm humble in every way / I don't know what you thought you seen / Tell me what
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Outkast Exellence – Intro
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[Intro] / What is this thing? / We didn't see this thing coming / Is this going to hit us? / [?] / What kind of damage? / Damage, total sir / That's we what / [?] / It doesn't
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OutKast – Hey Ya!
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“Hey Ya!” is the first single from André 3000’s half of OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below double album. André said the following about the concept of this genre-bending song:
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OutKast – Phobia
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Featured on the 1995 Higher Learning soundtrack (also played in a scene where Omar Epps is rearranging his dorm in college). Big Rube of the Dungeon Family delivers a classic
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OutKast – Intro (Speakerboxxx)
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The introduction to Speakerboxxx which calls itself a test, there is no real lyrics, only an amazing instrumental that sounds like a compilation of a ton of samples.
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OutKast – B.O.B.
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For the lead single to their fourth album, Stankonia, OutKast took the space funk of their sophomore album ATLiens along with the heightened consciousness of their third album
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OutKast – Aquemini
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The title track to OutKast’s classic third album acknowledges that all great things must come to an end, but insists that André and Big Boi won’t stop working together until that
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OutKast – Hold On, Be Strong
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The intro to OutKast’s seminal album Aquemini serves as the calm before the upcoming storm. With Tony Hightower on the vocals and André 3000 on the thumb piano, “Hold On” is a
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OutKast – Myintrotoletuknow
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“Myintrotoletuknow” is the first real track off of Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. As the title of the song suggests, this track serves as an introduction to the group and lets
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OutKast – 13th Floor/Growing Old
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The closing track to OutKast’s classic sophomore release ATLiens features a great spoken word verse by Big Rube before the duo begins to ponder their future.
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OutKast – Ms. Jackson
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The second single from Stankonia, “Ms. Jackson” catapulted the Southern rap duo OutKast into the mainstream, reaching the top 5 in several countries and becoming their first of
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OutKast (Ft. Sleepy Brown) – Player's Ball
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In the first song that ever got OutKast any mainstream attention, the duo raps about a players ball they attend on Christmas Day. When the song started to move up the Billboard
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OutKast – Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)
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This smooth track off of ATLiens samples “D.E.E.P.” from Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, and “Danger, She’s A Stranger” by The Five Stairsteps.
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Belly (Ft. Ty Dolla $ign) – Outkast
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[Intro: Belly] / Gain the world or lose it all / Gain it back again / Bounce back / [Hook: Ty Dolla $ign] / Bounce that, bounce that, bounce that, bounce that, bounce that, bounce
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OutKast (Ft. Killer Mike) – Bust
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“Bust” is the 7th song on OutKast’s fifth studio album and double album, Speakerboxxx / The Love Below. The song appears on Speakerboxxx, Big Boi’s first half of the double album
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OutKast – Pink & Blue
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Andre fantasizes about having a relationship with a woman who’s older than him. Nothing wrong with finding a cougar, is there?
The beginning of the song samples Aaliyah’s “Age
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OutKast – Claimin' True
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This cut off of Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik lets the listener know that everything that the duo claims to be true in their raps actually goes on in their lives.
The beat
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OutKast – Pre-Nump (Interlude)
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“Pre-Nump” is the twenty-third track and seventh interlude off of OutKast’s 2000 album, Stankonia.
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OutKast – Prototype
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“Prototype” was André 3000’s single released with Big Boi’s “GhettoMuzick” as the final singles from OutKast’s double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. This funk guitar ballad has
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OutKast (Ft. Erykah Badu) – Humble Mumble
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This Stankonia cut is one of the select few songs where 3 Stacks performs with his baby mama Erykah Badu. It deals with themes like continuing to work hard in the face of adversity
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OutKast – Good Day, Good Sir (Interlude)
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Andre’s version of Who’s on first?.
Perfect wordplay here which brings to light a description of Bentley Fonzworth as “Spectacular” and the lady as “Fine” which is not clearly
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OutKast – Behold a Lady
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This song is part of Andre 3000’s “Love Below”. It appreciates the value of quality women and how they are so hard to find.
Behold a Lady is a playful upbeat song that over
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OutKast (Ft. Killer Mike & Slimm Calhoun) – Funkanella
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[Intro: DJ Clue] / Clue (Clue) / Clue (Clue) / Clue (Clue)... / New Outkast / For my dirty South Niggas / [Verse 1: Big Boi] / Out of the basement / Out of the dungeon / Look at
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OutKast – Rosa Parks
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This is the lead single from OutKast’s 1998 Aquemini. “Rosa Parks” may not have been the duo’s most successful single, but it established OutKast’s legitimacy as pioneers of
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OutKast – Jazzy Belle
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3 Stacks and Big Boi compare today’s women to Jezebel from the Bible to comment on how the modern woman’s promiscuity will have a negative effect on the future generations.
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OutKast (Ft. Sleepy Brown) – Funkin' Around
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Track 2 off of Big Boi and Dre Present… released in 2001. The song had originally been unreleased up until it’s inclusion on the compilation album.
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OutKast (Ft. George Clinton) – Synthesizer
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A commentary from Aquemini on how society is beginning to favor synthetic products of all kinds while opposing natural human experience. André provided some insight on the song’s
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OutKast – The Love Below (Intro) Samples
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See all of “The Love Below (Intro)” by OutKast’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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OutKast – BuggFace
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[Intro] / "Can I dance?" {*echoes*} / [Unfamiliar voice] / Awww shit {*echoes*} / {*whispered*} Big Boi! Big Boi! / [Verse 1: Big Boi] / What if everything you ever knew or known
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OutKast – Chonkyfire
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The closing track to OutKast’s classic Aquemini features a beat filled with guitar riffs that foreshadow the musical direction of OK’s next album, Stankonia. Andre said the
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OutKast – Ms. Jackson (Radio Mix)
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[Intro: André 3000] / Yeah, this one right here goes out / To all the baby's mamas' mamas / Mamas, mamas, baby mamas' mamas / Yeah, go like this / [Chorus: André 3000] / I'm sorry
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