Incorporating live instrumentation while exploring social issues and the joys and realities of southern culture. As eclectic as it is organic and lush, this album is simply spellbinding. Titles that come to mind are Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, De La Soul’s De La Soul Is Dead, and Madvillain’s Madvillainy.Īdd Outkast’s Aquemini to that same list. There are albums that are so artistic and left field they sometimes require a few listens for one to actually appreciate the brilliance of them. If Aquemini or Stankonia didn’t already put them into the stratosphere, this album did it, winning multiple Grammy Awards and ensuring that their legacy of being one of the biggest music acts of the past few generations was established. The most innovative double album ever known in Hip Hop, Andre’s half was The Love Below, a hybrid of heavy Prince-influenced funk and experimental sounds that catapulted 3000 into being a true star – pushing the boundaries of what a Hip Hop artist is supposed to sound like with cuts like “Roses” and “She Lives In My Lap”, as any box one put him in was destroyed.Īs for Big Boi, his half, Speakerboxx, was more traditional southern Hip Hop, mixing funk and down south gumbo with cuts like “The Way You Move” and “Bowtie” to come away with a highly impressive disc himself.

What else can be said that hasn’t already been said about this album? One of the greatest albums of all-time, within any genre, it’s also their most commercially successful, selling upwards of twelve million units.

Outkast first album