And I remember I loved it, but it also marks the beginning of the end, because as Mr. But this, to me, felt like such a dramatic shift. Godfrey: Every two years, OutKast reinvent themselves, makes new sounds, makes some slang, makes quality albums. But of course, we only know that from hindsight. I feel like I can really start to hear the individual influences start to play out, especially as we transition from track to track. And what he meant by that was, you know, OutKast, the unit, is still very much intact, but I think of Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Lee: I got to credit my friend Jason Lee, but he compared the album to sort of like splitting the atoms. How do you feel the production shifted? Did you hear anything different from, like the earlier discography to Stankonia ? 'Cause usually when you think OutKast and Dungeon Family, you automatically go to the GOATS, which is Organized Noize. Stankonia is really Earthtone III's first real foray into completing the majority of the album. It's amazing how OutKast is able to really just branch off at this point, especially when you compare it to their previous discography. I sometimes forget just how vibrant this album is, how ambitious this album is, but that's what immediately strikes me. They still sound as fresh as they did 20 years ago.Ĭhristina Lee: I mean, listening to this album kind of feels crazy. To me, not much has changed other than time. Gavin Godfrey: Man, it still sounds super fresh 20 years later. Chris, Gavin, what are your immediate reactions to listening to Stankonia 20 years later? Regina Bradley: I feel like I'm back in high school, junior year - shout out to Westover High School - running to lunch, listening to Stankonia. There's also a new version presented in 360 Reality Audio. The deluxe Stankonia, reissued digitally with previously unreleased tracks and remixes, is out now. This conversation, originally streamed live on YouTube for NPR Music's Listening Party series, has been edited for length and clarity. Er'thang ain't figured out, but everything is "Gangsta S***." Snappin' and trappin'. Everything is loud, boisterous and intentional, "Gasoline Dreams" burning bright, no breaks, unless it's Big Boi and 3 Stacks telling us to take a breath and make a stop at "Spaghetti Junction" to pick up Kim, Cookie, Eco, Badu, and Boo and the D.F. Ain't nan humbly mumbled seven light years below sea level. So come kick it wit ya folk, myself, and writers and NPR Music contributors extraordinaire Christina Lee and Gavin Godfrey, as we travel back in time to experience the sonic and lyrical mayhem of what it means to create something new. Stankonia showcases influences from multiple genres, eras, feelings, and experiences, including EDM on the much celebrated and canonized "B.O.B."
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DJ" Sheats - are on full display for the majority of the album. Earthtone III - consisting of Benjamin, Big Boi, and DJ David "Mr. Stankonia was a curation of not only OutKast's investment in the future, but a blueprint for what was to come later with Speakerboxxx/The Love Below: a look at the group's evolution as men and as artists, solidly and firmly centered in a stronghold of how the South could sound. Music Features The South Got Something To Say: A Celebration Of Southern Rap Benjamin was blasting centuries ahead with his latest moniker, André 3000, an Afrofuturist prediction that the future was Black and dope as hell, and Big Boi was growing increasingly experimental in not only his lyrical delivery but his fashion sense, paralleling Benjamin's own eccentric flair for fashion. Never ones to shy away from the stank of imagined and social-historical realities, Stankonia is a demonstration of André Benjamin and Big Boi evolving their sound, their identities, and their art. They stayed true to what they did best and created something powerful on the fringes of mainstream pop culture's expectations of them as southerners and as rappers.īreaking new ground cleared from the debris of nostalgia, burned with their Chonkyfire, Stankonia challenged listeners to reconsider what it meant to be OutKasted in the wilderness of an unknown new world. Released on Halloween 2000, months after the initial Y2K scare that left people terrified of being throttled back into a period of darkness and technological paranoia, Stankonia took full advantage of the new millennium. When OutKast released its fourth studio album Stankonia, the pioneering duo out of Atlanta, Ga., was not new to this, but they remained true to the hip-hop thing. 31, 2000, and we're still feeling the stank two decades later.
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