![]() ![]() 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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