15 years ago this week (October 31, 2000), OutKast released their classic album ‘Stankonia’. Please for the love of all things holy, buy this record and make your mother listen to it. Outkast had hits on hits on hits and three solid albums to their name by the time they dropped Stankonia in 2000. Produced by their longtime collaborators and mentors Organized Noize, “Jackson” is one of the best radio singles they’ve ever produced as a duo. I know I complained about The College Dropout lasting over an hour and being peppered with pointless skits, thought the same issues didn't bother me as much with Stankonia for some reason. Jackson”—are unrepentant earworms that feel like natural extensions of the group’s sound, not crossover attempts. With producers Organized Noize playing a diminished role, Stankonia reclaims the duo's futuristic bent. Stankonia reeks of artful ambition rendered with impeccable skill -- or as one song title so concisely has it, ''So Fresh, So Clean.''. Classy & Funky Album. All of their albums began with a disembodied intro track as a prelude, followed by a State of the OutKast declaration that proved that, as André would famously go on to say at the 1995 Source Awards, “the South got something to say.” Tellingly, André confessed, “I gots a lot of shit up on my mind,” on “Myintrotoletuknow” from their 1994 debut Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. Universal acclaim This strangely infectious chorus offer a romantic gesture, insisting that everyone get’s theirs. Their sonic brashness and directness had Public Enemy’s Chuck D in its DNA, their fashion had antecedents in the Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five meeting Afrika Bambaataa’s Soul Sonic Force, the subversive whimsy of De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest were their forebears, giving the group a musical intensity and breadth incomparable to any other major hip-hop act before or since. The backing tracks weren’t soundscapes as much as they are aural murals graffitied on the cosmic underpasses where abandoned tricked-out space shuttles rest, stripped of their Brougham rims. It's lavishly spottieottiedopaliscious, but somehow manages to have that raunchy stank only growing up in the mighty paradise known as the ATL can imbue in a man. Replacement requested and we'll see how that turns out. You really wanna know about sum gangsta sh*+, Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2020. Identity and location—and defining and observing the two on their own terms—have always been key with OutKast. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2019. Stankonia is easily the group’s most expansive and abrasive effort. The cover was fine, but the sleeves were bent/folded. Promoting perseverance and social action “Do you want to live or wanna exist?”, Badu subtly arrives to provide the record’s finest guest spot with angelic vocals on top of an old-skool beat. Not real happy. Eh? 10. Not what I expect from Amazon especially when purchasing NEW/UNOPENED. Stankonia leaves nothing to be desired as it is energized by Outkast's clever lyrics coupled with their cutting edge production, which is an expansive take on the original Atlanta sound. It’s just two identical pieces of vinyl with only the second half of the album. The album opener embraces flat-out rock’n’roll with squealing guitars and ‘Stankonia’s most aggressive critique of modern life in America. Minor damage to outside sleeves. This was both after wiping with two different microfiber cloths but upon inspection there are tiny dents in the record like someone poked them with the needle. Xplosion While Aquemini dealt with Big Boi and Dre's -- the self-described "player and poet," respectively -- contradictory personalities, Stankonia addresses the contradictory impulses of hip-hop itself. Drunk Remix of “Ms. Review: OutKast, Stankonia W hile the hip-hop world continues to generate increasingly talented MCs and mega-producers, most of its actual releases have become increasingly stagnant. Each album had further refined their mastery; each one was a tour de force in its own right. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. The typical hip-hop video is filled with women in bikinis licking lollipops or ice cream cones and the music is usually formulaic and musician-free. Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2020. Album Rating: 4.0halfway decent review for a first one. Being a connoisseur of all things fresh, clean, AND stankaliscious I can tell you that all three of these traits are seldom found in the same artist, let alone the same album and often the same song. On the intro to Stankonia —their fourth album, a thrill-pushing auricular splattering of mindfunks and ideascapes—they mimicked those copying … New to vinyl, got a Victrola two weeks ago so hopped on Amazon to buy a few vinyl albums important to me. Disabling it will result in some disabled or missing features. The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. OutKast’s Stankonia remains one of the jewels of the Atlanta duo’s catalog. Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2019. OutKast’s Stankonia is getting the reissue treatment to mark the record’s 20th anniversary this fall. Critic Reviews Featuring Andre 3000’s soul singer ex, Erkyah Badu, ‘Humble Mumble’ fully embraces its funky side on the latter half. I even played the first few seconds of each to make sure maybe just the labels Were wrong. based on Classy & Funky Album. Wrong Vinyl in jacket. ", Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2010. It has to be mentioned that the group, along with their longtime DJ, Mr. DJ, had begun handling the bulk of their production with Aquemini and it sounded as if their longtime producers, Organized Noize—who had stunned on Goodie Mob’s debut, created one of TLC’s defining songs with “Waterfalls” and produced En Vogue’s biggest hit, “Don’t Let Go (Love)”—had actually been holding the duo back musically. If you say you haven’t screamed “Sorry Ms. Jackson OOOH, I AM FO REALLL” at the highest your tiny lungs will consent to at a house party, we think you’re lying. We Luv Deez Hoez OutKast is a bit different, more experimental and weird than most other successful hip hop acts. ‘Stankonia’s second single and their most commercially successful hit, details the breakup between Andre 3000 and a long time partner (rumoured to be previous guest Erkyah Badu). It is a remarkable feat only ever executed by masters of a craft. Gangsta Sh*t There is so much going across Stankonia—the coordinated confetti of noises on “Gangsta Shit,” the uneasy meditation of teen pregnancy that is “Toilet Tisha,” the playful lasciviousness of “I’ll Call Before I Come,” the melodic menace of “Red Velvet,” the skits that spoke in metaphors to the subconscious via hood tongues, the arrangements and progressions that felt capricious, but totally natural.
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