Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records in the United States. Issued as a double album, its playtime of more than two hours is distributed over solo albums from each of the group's members. Speakerboxxx is the solo project of Big Boi, performing tracks that are rooted in Southern hip hop, while The Love Below, the solo project of AndrΓ© 3000, covers musical styles such as soul, pop, funk, and jazz. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below received general acclaim from most music critics, earning praise for the consistency Read Full BioSpeakerboxxx/The Love Below is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records in the United States. Issued as a double album, its playtime of more than two hours is distributed over solo albums from each of the group's members. Speakerboxxx is the solo project of Big Boi, performing tracks that are rooted in Southern hip hop, while The Love Below, the solo project of AndrΓ© 3000, covers musical styles such as soul, pop, funk, and jazz. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below received general acclaim from most music critics, earning praise for the consistency of Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and the eclectic musical style of AndrΓ© 3000's The Love Below. The album was supported with the hit singles "Hey Ya!" and "The Way You Move", which both reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. As part of its success, the album won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making it the second hip hop album to win the award. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below represented a departure from Outkast's previous work. First of all, the album worked as two albums on a single set, with the first (Speakerboxxx) working as a Big Boi solo project and the second (The Love Below) as an AndrΓ© solo album. Critics pointed to this fact, and some felt what initially limits the album finally helps it succeed artistically. Stephen Thomas Erlewine compared this expanded creative freedom between each members of the group with what happened to The Beatles in 1968, saying "the effect is kind of like if the Beatles issued The White Album as one LP of Lennon tunes, the other of McCartney songsβthe individual records may be more coherent, but the illusion that the group can do anything is tarnished. By isolating themselves from each other, Big Boi and Andre 3000 diminish the idea of OutKast slightly, since the focus is on the individuals, not the group. Which, of course, is part of the point of releasing solo albums under the group nameβit's to prove that the two can exist under the umbrella of the OutKast aesthetic while standing as individuals."
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Roman
Best Album intro from best hip hop duo
Leoguar Knight
Best Duo Ever
Exit The Dream...
@munya mubaiwa cant disagree with that Dynasty banger.
Sunz of Man 'In the Begining' is deadly too... "I was chained and thrown in a tomb with 85 people in a long dark room. Christ appeared with a robe and beer we had a deep conversation and then he disappeared."
Neltron8000
FACTS!
Joey Urias
a buddy of mine and i always go back and forth about this and Aquemini. We can't agree, but we do agree that both are dope and crucial.
munya mubaiwa
Close secod for me after Jay Z Dynasty album Intro but This is my favorite hip hop album ever ever ever.
Youngin JP
Outkast made me feel like the opposite of being an outcastπ£
Drew M
real
SmvGrv 1
Outkast album intro's were always π₯ π₯π₯
Exit The Dream...
This intro used to piss me off how short it was, but i get it now.
Its like sugar its so sweet you only need a little.