OutKast - Stankonia
Big Boi and Andre 3000 make a monumental mothership connection on their utterly stupefying fourth album. At a time when the hip-hop "album" seems to be sadly declining in significance, Atlanta's finest deliver a classic package of space-case imagery, curbside poetry, and delicious experimental funk. While the boys still celebrate their big pimpin' lifestyles, "Gasoline Dreams" and the breathtaking "Humble Mumble" overflow with striking images of dashed American dreams and urban frustration. Stankonia's most beautiful moments come in the name of love, whether it's a celebration of the current ("Stanklove") or a lamentation of the past ("Ms. Jackson"). The love movement is manifested on the album's revolutionary production, combining the oozing, organic licks of P-Funk, the fearless, sexual audacity of Prince, some down-home Southern crunk, and even a little drum & bass ("B.O.B."). While Stankonia certainly isn't an "easy" album, its ambition and vision easily rank it among hip-hop's greatest in some time. --Hua Hsu
See also:
Pitchfork's Top Albums of the 2000s
Tracks
- A1) Intro
- A2) Gasoline Dreams
- A3) So Fresh, So Clean
- A4) Ms. Jackson
- A5) Snappin' & Trappin'
- A6) D.F. (Interlude)
- B1) Spaghetti Junction
- B2) Kim & Cookie (Interlude)
- B3) I'll Call Before I Come
- B4) B.O.B.
- B5) Xplosion
- B6) Good Hair (Interlude)
- C1) We Luv Deez Hoez
- C2) Humble Mumble
- C3) Drinkin' Again (Interlude)
- C4) ?
- C5) Red Velvet
- C6) Cruisin' In The ATL (Interlude)
- D1) Gangsta Sh*t
- D2) Toilet Tisha
- D3) Slum Beautiful
- D4) Pre-Nump (Interlude)
- D5) Stankonia (Stanklove)
Track listing above is from 2000-Jan-01 | US | LaFace Records - 73008-26072-1 LP
- 2000-Jan-01 | US | LaFace Records - 73008-26072-1 LP
- 2000-Jan-01 | US | LaFace Records - 73008-26072-1 LP
- 2000-Jan-01 | US | LaFace Records - LFLP-6073 LP
- 2000-Jan-01 | Europe | LaFace Records - 73008-26072-1 LP
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