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Andre 3000
Bizarre, skilful and oozing cool vibes. After years of being a three-piece group's front man, Three Stacks has been rocking his solo southern
playa' style for two decades. From the beginning, we were in love with his remarkable lyrics and music.
Maybe
he's
an
unusual
choice;
we've been picking real old-school
heavyweights until now – KRS-Onetype-titans. Andre's a wicked MC and
everyone knows that. He's more than
that though, he's proved you can unite
eccentricity with consistency. One half
of the mighty 'Outkast', Andre's debut on
1994's 'Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik'
was precise, sauntering and immersive.
Bit of a mental album title but, believe
it or not, this was the Andre at his most
regular – the pre-Stankonia Andre, the
'before he started calling himself Possum
Aloysius Jenkins' Andre. From here it was
a descent into expansive psychedelic funk
and hyper-gospel, and that's what makes
Jenkins' journey such a legendary one.
Propelled by lead single 'Hey Ya', 2003's
'Speakerboxxx/The Love Below' went
diamond – it's actually the best selling hip
hop (can we call it that) album of all time.
He's a legend not because of his record The duo hit London to promote the last
sales, but because of his demonstration few... There's no evidence, but that won't
that you can hit massive sales without stop the buzz.
compromising artistic vision. The wackier
he got the more captivating his music
became. He didn't 'go mainstream', at
Check out:
least, not in the usual way, but Andre
outkast.com/andre-3000
doesn't do usual. He's still about, 20
years on. He had a wicked feature on T.I's
'Sorry' recently; dare we speculate that a
further Outkast album is in the pipeline?
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