Outkast - Stankonia
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Label: LaFace
Genre: Hip Hop
Year: 2000
Recommended by: Lauren Weidner
his album is so good. Again, the interludes in any album are useless and I hope never come back. If you want to put comedy out you can do it on so many different outlets now I hope that artist just take it to twitter or YouTube.
Nonetheless, André 3000 and Big Boi bought their own studio and the result is that they have a different sound on each individual track. It keeps the album from having a consistency, but each is unique and wonderful in it's own right. "Ms. Jackson" was the biggest commercial success and "B.O.B." is the biggest critical success. The songs are amazingly different. "Ms. Jackson" sounds like an offspring from Prince and "B.O.B" (Bombs over Baghdad) sounds like Jimi Hendrix entered a rave.
The only issue is the music still seems misogynistic. There are tracks where it seems that they satirical take down the scene and they both have come out and said the impact that Hip Hop and the South have made in their interactions with women. That said, I love the song "We Luv Deez Hoez". I'm just a hypocrit, so theirs that.
