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Spottieottiedopaliscious (Instrumental)From: Aquemini [La Face, 1998]SpottieOttieDopaliscious (Instrumental) - Outkast
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Aquemini
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AMG Review of Aquemini
Steve Huey
All Music GuideEven compared to their already excellent and forward-looking catalog, OutKast's sprawling third album, Aquemini, was a stroke of brilliance. The chilled-out space-funk of ATLiens had already thrown some fans for a loop, and Aquemini made it clear that its predecessor was no detour, but a stepping stone for even greater ambitions. Some of ATLiens' ethereal futurism is still present, but more often Aquemini plants its feet on the ground for a surprisingly down-home flavor. The music draws from a vastly eclectic palette of sources, and the live instrumentation is fuller-sounding than ATLiens. Most importantly, producers Organized Noize imbue their tracks with a Southern earthiness and simultaneous spirituality that come across regardless of what Dre and Big Boi are rapping about. Not that they shy away from rougher subject matter, but their perspective is grounded and responsible, intentionally avoiding hardcore clichés. Their distinctive vocal deliveries are now fully mature, with a recognizably Southern rhythmic bounce but loads more technique than their territorial peers. Those flows grace some of the richest and most inventive hip-hop tracks of the decade. The airy lead single "Rosa Parks" juxtaposes front-porch acoustic guitar with DJ scratches and a stomping harmonica break that could have come from nowhere but the South. Unexpected touches like that are all over the record: the live orchestra on "Return of the 'G'"; the electronic, George Clinton-guested "Synthesizer"; the eggae horns and dub-style echo of "SpottieOttieDopaliscious"; the hard-rocking wah-wah guitar of "Chonkyfire"; and on and on. What's most impressive is the way everything comes together to justify the full-CD running time, something few hip-hop epics of this scope ever accomplish. After a few listens, not even the meditative jams on the second half of the album feel all that excessive. Aquemini fulfills all its ambitions, covering more than enough territory to qualify it as a virtuosic masterpiece, and a landmark hip-hop album of the late '90s.
Spottieottiedopaliscious
The first time I heard this song...
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...I was young, in California, hanging out with friends. Talking, laughing, you know how we do...As soon as the first chord hit, there was just this hush. No one even spoke until the end of the song. And Spottieottie is a looong song.Today, when people tell me that hip hop is dead, I just point them toward Outkast, especially this song. As long as people can create music that will quiet a room ...
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Big Boi Promises New Outkast Album In 2009
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Big Boi and Dre will both be releasing solo albums within the next 7 months (!!!), and will follow that up with a full fledged Outkast album in '09. Big and Dre both spoke with *"MTV":http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1585670/20080416/outkast.jhtml?rsspartner=rssFeedBurner* on separate occasions and echoed the same sentiments about their plans. "We got a few songs we already picked out," Big exp...
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Spottieottiedopaliscious (Instrumental)From: Aquemini [La Face, 1998]SpottieOttieDopaliscious (Instrumental) - Outkast
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HHT: When ATL & Shaolin mix it up
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I almost forgot that today is HHT. Ahhh Outkast, I liked you a lot more before you became "MTV's bitch":http://delivery.viewimages.com/xv/71698960.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19396908EAF14430D35641D7B6C3744D7383D352D3B05376768 with your last few albums. "ATLiens":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atliens & "Aquemini":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquemini are two fantastic rap albums th...
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you true blue bout this music but they do not wanna hear it cause they rather be bouncing and shooting and killing and bouncing and shit...GET DOWN!!Welcome All to my first foray into the blogosphere. I found out about the site from Okayplayer, and being the avid music lover/writer that I am I decided to set up shop. My musical taste are mega-wide and expanding on the daily but are rooted in ...
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The first time I heard this song...
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...I was young, in California, hanging out with friends. Talking, laughing, you know how we do...As soon as the first chord hit, there was just this hush. No one even spoke until the end of the song. And Spottieottie is a looong song.Today, when people tell me that hip hop is dead, I just point them toward Outkast, especially this song. As long as people can create music that will quiet a room ...
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Samuel L. Jackson Wants Andre 3000 For New 'Afro Samurai' Movie
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Any fans of the Afro Samurai series on MOG?The animated series picked up steam when it aired on Spike TV early last year, an Samuel L. Jackson is looking to bring it to the big screen as a live action film."We have a live-action plan," Jackson revealed, saying that he wants to see Afro's battle with Number One up on the big screen with flesh-and-blood actors. "Hopefully, that script will come t...
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