![]() ![]() OutKast wore their musical connections easily, and sometimes literally. Or more probably, a massive bounce in its booty. ![]() This was groove music with a massive bounce in its step. This wasn't posing music or macho brutalism. It also contains a charmingly skewed description of the boy-meets-girl moment in which the lady in question appears "like a brown stallion horse with skates on". ![]() It's a song about falling out of nightclubs, falling in love and stepping up to parenthood, themes that resonated with me. I used to drive around south London, singing along to Rosa Parks and my favourite track on the album, SpottieOttieDopaliscious. Now, strange and brilliant rap could also come from Atlanta, Georgia. It proved that the old push and pull between the east and west coast of American hip-hop was over. I consider it a high point of 90s hip-hop – a period with many rap peaks – bridging from the boom bap of the early part of the decade and providing a new blueprint for rap's next 10 years. A quemini was the album that turned me into a raving OutKast fan, a position consolidated by subsequent albums Stankonia and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. ![]()
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