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When you think about rap music, visuals of people in tights prancing around don't usually accompany your thoughts. Big Boi of Outkast will be fusing the two this week with his collab with the Atlanta Ballet Co. This New York Times article takes a look at the odd pairing....

"Professor Michael Eric Dyson, echoing several young Atlanta artists who weighed in on the project, sees in “big” an opportunity for hip-hop to re-examine some of its more self-destructive tendencies, including violence and “the blitzkrieg of misogyny that passes for commentary on gender.” If anyone could get hip-hop to open up, he said, it would be one of the adventurous stars of OutKast."