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OutKast

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2012

    Oddsmaker: Do Beyoncé And André 3000 Have Enough Swagu To Beat Kanye And His Dozens Of Friends At The Grammys?

    ​The Grammys created the awkwardly named Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category ten years ago, around the time Ja Rule's various "thug love" duets were dominating the airwaves. The award recognized a growing sector of popular music that didn't quite fit into the preexisting rap, R&B or pop song ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2011

    Beyond Jay And Kanye's Throne: Ten More Regal Seats In Hip-Hop

    Coming to an arena near you this weekend: Jay-Z and Kanye West. ​Kanye West and Jay-Z's grandiose Watch The Throne tour comes to the New York City area tomorrow, and sticks around through next week—the pair perform at the Izod Center on Saturday and Sunday, and at Madison Square Garden o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2011

    12 Albums From The Past Decade That Are Way Better Than Is This It

    ...despite these black marks, Is This It was a decade-defining record that set the agenda for how rock sounded and even looked throughout the aughts. More importantly, Is This It remains (takes deep breath, steels self for commenter rage) the single best album released in the past 10 years." — ... More >>

  • Music

    August 10, 2011

    Toxic Shock

    Britney Spears and the artlessness of the chase

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Five Questions To Ask At Ben Westhoff's Dirty South Reading

    ​Tonight, Voice contributor and hip-hop sommelier Ben Westhoff will read from Dirty South, his look at the populist rise of rap music from the southern states, at Williamsburg's Book Thug Nation. The book focuses on the bigger names to have emerged from the south, with chapters based around Bi ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 8, 2011

    'The Governors Ball'

    ​Tonight, Voice contributor and hip-hop sommelier Ben Westhoff will read from Dirty South, his look at the populist rise of rap music from the southern states, at Williamsburg's Book Thug Nation. The book focuses on the bigger names to have emerged from the south, with chapters based around Bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Long Live The Funk? Big Boi Drops By Modest Mouse's Studio

    ​ Today in "parties you weren't invited to" news: It appears that Outkast's Big Boi has been hanging out with Modest Mouse, who are working on their upcoming album, this week. In a series of tweets, Daddy Fat Sax announced that he-- and Grammy-winning producer Chris "Mouche" Carmouche--had be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Q&A: Sasha Grey on Auto-Tune, Her Band aTelecine, and Her Favorite Sexytime Music

    Courtesy VICE BooksFrom Neu Sex Sasha Grey is one of the most famous porn stars of our generation, and perhaps the first to achieve true crossover success, with starring roles in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and HBO's Entourage. You probably know her by name, face, and maybe even v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Big Boi and Terry Riley Added To the Animal Collective-Curated All Tomorrow's Parties

    ​Say what you want about Animal Collective's recent turn as wedding music for the shrillest people alive, they will probably always have a better record collection than you. To wit: The line-up for May's AnCo-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England just added OutKast funka ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 15, 2010

    Big Boi+Calvin Harris

    ​Say what you want about Animal Collective's recent turn as wedding music for the shrillest people alive, they will probably always have a better record collection than you. To wit: The line-up for May's AnCo-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England just added OutKast funka ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 8, 2010

    WALK IT OUT

    Make room for Daddy Fat Sacks

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Live: Big Boi Does The Hits At Brooklyn Bowl

    ​Don't bother requesting anything, he's already gonna play it​Big Boi Brooklyn Bowl Monday, September 6 Better than: The vast majority of other greatest-hits sets performed in bowling alleys. So Big Boi, as someone in his management circle is explaining before tonight's festivities beg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    This Week's Voice: The Nitrous Mafia, Big Boi, Kelis, Oneohtrix Point Never, June Jazz Festivals, and More

    ​In this week's Village Voice, our cover story is on the Nitrous Mafia, the gas-fueled drug gang that is terrorizing music festivals up and down both coasts. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla talks with OutKast's Big Boi on the long-delayed occasion of the release of Sir Lucious Left Foot, Jessica Hoppe ... More >>

  • Music

    July 6, 2010

    Big Boi Is Not Too Artsy

    After endless clashes and delays, the OutKast rapper's triumphant solo album emerges at last

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Last Night: A Wednesday Night Out On The L.E.S., Featuring A Secret Entrance, Wobbly Dancers, And One Awful Bouncer

    ​Above, the scene at Ella; below, the nefarious Corona-based secret door at Stay. Pics by Puja. ​New York City's downtown party scene adheres to a finely tuned set of rules. It's one of those things that everyone understands and no one talks about--a delicate balance of power that's main ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Law & Order's Five Most Ridiculous Rapper Cameos

    ​Law & Order ends its 20-year run tonight. Throughout the show's long reign, phalanxes of honorable detectives have cleaned the New York streets of crime and debris while throwing out witty one-liners and re-enacting plotlines ripped from real-life headlines. Grabbing a cameo on the show has a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Big Boi Talks About, and To, Penguins for Sea World

    We don't know why Big Boi from Outkast talking to penguins is charming, but it is. This appears to be a promotional spot for Sea World in Orlando, but maybe it's part of another confusing project like Idlewild.

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2009

    SXSW 2009: Futuristic Nostalgia with Janelle Monáe and Phosphorescent

    Janelle Monáe (Stubbs) Phosphorescent (Club De Ville) SXSW Wednesday Night, March 18 I would declare that a bunch of Decemberists fans crowding the front of the stage four hours before the sea shanties etc. even begin just to insure their spot is not exactly Atlanta r&b space-cadet Janelle Moná ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    What Would Charlie Brown Listen To?

    Janelle Monáe (Stubbs) Phosphorescent (Club De Ville) SXSW Wednesday Night, March 18 I would declare that a bunch of Decemberists fans crowding the front of the stage four hours before the sea shanties etc. even begin just to insure their spot is not exactly Atlanta r&b space-cadet Janelle Moná ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 19, 2008

    PARTY AT GROUND ZERO

    Fishbone keeps on rockin' in the free world

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Killer Mike's Long-Lost Time-Capsule Album

    Fishbone keeps on rockin' in the free world

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2007

    Status Ain't Hood Podcast 14

    Fishbone keeps on rockin' in the free world

  • Music

    August 7, 2007

    UGK's Underground Kingz

    Overdue Southern comfort

  • Film

    August 15, 2006

    About a Boi

    OutKast's Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the old South

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2006

    Preview: OutKast's New Album Idlewild

    OutKast's Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the old South

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2006

    The Grammy Awards: A Preview

    OutKast's Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the old South

  • NYC Life

    January 10, 2006

    Holla!

    Diplo dishes on M.I.A., baile funk, and the Roots

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    2003

    Diplo dishes on M.I.A., baile funk, and the Roots

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2005

    Adam Sandler Avoids CMJ Day 1

    Diplo dishes on M.I.A., baile funk, and the Roots

  • Specials

    May 4, 2004

    Letters

    Diplo dishes on M.I.A., baile funk, and the Roots

  • News

    April 13, 2004

    Rap, Rage, REDvolution

    As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country

  • Music

    April 6, 2004

    Back to the Boys' Club

    Sheriff arrives, the Strokes are sent home, drunks from Down Under take over the garage

  • NYC Life

    February 24, 2004

    See you later: Folks swamp a Williamsburg watering hole

    Sheriff arrives, the Strokes are sent home, drunks from Down Under take over the garage

  • NYC Life

    February 17, 2004

    And the Winner Is . . .

    Sheriff arrives, the Strokes are sent home, drunks from Down Under take over the garage

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    The Dean's List

    Sheriff arrives, the Strokes are sent home, drunks from Down Under take over the garage

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    Top Ten Plus

    Hey Get Ya Mom a Crazy Milkshake in Da Club

  • Music

    September 30, 2003

    Love and Crunk

    Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules

  • News

    June 3, 2003

    Keepin' It Unreal

    $elling the Myth of Bla¢k Male Violen¢e, Long Past Its Expiration Date

  • Music

    May 27, 2003

    The South Does It Again, Sort Of

    Rap Trounces Rock Below the Mason-Dixon

  • Music

    May 13, 2003

    Bhangra Over Bombs Over Baghdad

    Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists

  • NYC Life

    September 3, 2002

    Celebs Take Manhattan

    Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists

  • Music

    April 30, 2002

    Sugar Daddy

    Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists

  • Music

    January 1, 2002

    So Stank, So Clean

    Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists

  • Music

    October 16, 2001

    Twerk to Do

    Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists

  • Specials

    March 20, 2001

    Letters

    Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists

  • Music

    November 28, 2000

    Getting Bizzy

    Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists

  • Music

    October 31, 2000

    Make My Crunk the P-Funk

    Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists

  • Music

    October 31, 2000

    Fathership Connection

    Common's and OutKast's New Vidclips Have Decent Stuff in Common

  • Music

    May 4, 1999

    Butta-Knife Love

    Common's and OutKast's New Vidclips Have Decent Stuff in Common

  • Music

    October 27, 1998

    F(reakiness) M

    Common's and OutKast's New Vidclips Have Decent Stuff in Common

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