So “Hey Ya!” was just a place marker because he had not yet found the words for a hook. It was called “The Ingredients of a Pimp.” That’s where that whole “Love Hater” concept derived from. “Hey Ya!” would eventually top the Hot 100, where it sat at number one for a whopping nine weeks.Ĭee-Lo Green: When I first heard “Hey Ya!” we were at Stankonia and I was like, “Damn, this is so dope.” But it wasn’t finished. ” Due to the fact that it didn’t fit any molds, “Hey Ya!” was able to qualify under a number of ch arts, appearing everywhere from Billboard’s Adult Top 40 to the US Alternative Songs chart. The genre-bending lead single was released on September 9th, 2003 alongside Big Boi and Sleepy Brown’s “The Way You Move. From its mod-style-inspired music video - which took home the 2004 BET Award for Video of the Year - to Polaroid issuing a statement to warn about the dangers of shaking “it like a Polaroid picture,” the song is a real staple of the period.
“Hey Ya!” is one of the most iconic songs of the 2000s. A lot of people don’t know the album almost wasn’t made. But I was taking so long to finish The Love Below that he wanted to release that as a solo album. At the last minute, management and the record company said it wasn’t a good time to do that, so Big Boi did Speakerboxxx.
So he came up with the idea to do one album with two solo albums on it, which no one had ever done.Īndré 3000 : The Love Below was originally supposed to be a solo album. But their manager had told them that it was bad timing to come out with solo albums at that moment. Neal Pogue: Their manager at the time was trying to figure out how they could make an OutKast record because they were both going to do solo albums. Fresh off the heels of Stankonia ’s success, the duo took such an unprecedented approach for their fifth trek into the funkiverse. The double LP would go on to join The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as the only two rap albums to win the coveted Album of the Year Grammy award.Įvery superhero needs an origin story. Such strives paid off Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is ones of the highest selling hip-hop albums of all-time (11x platinum and counting). In a true testament to their name, OutKast ignored the resurgence of street sounds and continued to move against the grain. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was released on Septemto massive acclaim. With the success of 50 Cent’s debut Get Rich or Die Tryin’ earlier that year , hip-hop was in a gangsta rap phase. The strive for independence is evident he can be found playing a handful of instruments over the course of the 20 tracks. André’s introversion can be seen as an asset.
Genre classifications may be abandoned, yet The Love Below ’s tight plot makes for a consistent listen. Influences were vast, with everyone from early ’60s Beatles to a late ’80s Prince providing a creative spark. The album tells the story of a notorious lady-killer who finds a woman so perfect that he stops to question his ways. Three Stacks doubles down on his “Gangster of Love” persona, which is emphasized by the pink gun-toting cover. The Love Below, on the other hand, completely ignored the notion of genres, instead prioritizing its narrative at the forefront. And by 2000, the pop music doors were completely ripped off their hinges with the release of Stankonia. The group dipped their toe into pop music on 1998’s Aquemini. When fans grew to love the duo for playa anthems on 1994’s Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, 1996’s ATLiens followed up with themes of extraterrestrials and philosophy.
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Nearly a decade deep into their professional careers, Big Boi and André 3000 had a firm reputation for delivering the unexpected. With OutKast’s 2003 double album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, the south was finally heard by the world. This is the same rapper who stood alongside his partner, André 3000, at The Source Awards in 1995, when the famous words “The south got something to say” were uttered to a hostile New York City crowd. Outkast had just stepped on the Grammys stage to accept the Album of the Year award. “All thanks due to the most high for this one, all day long,” declared Big Boiat the Staples Center in 2004. Photo Credit: Arista Records We break down the creation of Outkast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below double album, through stories from many of its coveted collaborators
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