Outkast

Good news for the Outkast fans, Big Boi says his new album " Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty." is just about done. All he's waiting on is a few contributions from Andre 3000 (who is overseas at the moment). "[Andre 3000] has a couple beats for me, but right now he's in Japan working on his clothing line. So when he gets back, if time permits, we'll get on that," Big said of having more contributions from his partner on the album. "But we gonna record those ... MORE

Have you been craving one of those hot Andre 3000 verses that we've grown accustomed to? Its here! He absolutely slayed this track, which will appear on the upcoming DJ Drama Gangsta Grillz album.
Listen To The Track Here

Here are the lyrics to the first verse
so I'm watching her fine asswalked to my bedroomand thought to myself that’s the shape of things to comeshe said ‘why in the club you don’t make it precipitate?you know make it rain when you can make thunderstorm... MORE

I wanna put together a set of hip-hop christmas songs. Anybody got any good ones. So far on my list is... Outkast - Player's Ball (originally released on the LaFace Christmas album in '93) Snoop Dogg - Santa Clause Come Straight to the Ghetto Run-DMC - Christmas in Hollis Ludacris - Ludacrismas I hear Eazy-E has one or two.

One half of Outkast, Andre 3000 previewed his years-in-the-making clothing line during New York's fashion week. The debuting line, called Benjamin Bixby (taken from his full name Andre Benjamin), contains some 70 pieces, which the Atlanta MC plans on selling at Barneys New York and other high-end stores. Benjamin Bixby has a collegiate and athletic theme and was inspired by football players from back in the thirties. Speaking with New York Magazine, Andre Benjamin descri... MORE

Big Boi and Dre will both be releasing solo albums within the next 7 months (!!!), and will follow that up with a full fledged Outkast album in '09. Big and Dre both spoke with MTV on separate occasions and echoed the same sentiments about their plans. "We got a few songs we already picked out," Big explained. "We pick the beats first. I drop my [solo album] in July, Dre puts his out [later this year], and we drop that Outkast record at the top of [next] year." Big Boi... MORE

...that I forgot this portion of my trip The following song came on and absolutely made my night while ass was on display and surrounded me literally... Yep...see on the left of the parrot? That's a deer's ass, horses ass, also (probably not so easy to see) is the chicken’s ass, armadillo’s ass, raccoon’s ass, shoot there was probably an ass’s ass too.

That's my tour guide for you! (The end of the NY City visit, thank you for tuning in)... MORE

When you think about rap music, visuals of people in tights prancing around don't usually accompany your thoughts. Big Boi of Outkast will be fusing the two this week with his collab with the Atlanta Ballet Co. This New York Times article takes a look at the odd pairing.... "Professor Michael Eric Dyson, echoing several young Atlanta artists who weighed in on the project, sees in “big” an opportunity for hip-hop to re-examine some of its more self-destructive tendencies,... MORE

The first night of the "Big" collab with the Atlanta Ballet Co. took place last night. Here's a short video featuring pieces of Big Boi doing "Morris Brown", and "Bombs Over Baghdad". Janelle Monae comes on at the end also..

Maybe it's time to stop sipping on that sizzurp... We can't afford to keep losing soldiers yo. Sad news broke today that Outkast's road manager, Chase Tatum, was found dead in his Atlanta home on Sunday March 23rd. Cause of death is suspected to be an overdose on painkillers that Tatum had become dependent on after suffering back injuries from his championship wrestling career. The manager/wrestler/actor was preparing to enter rehab next week, but didn't make it. R.I.... MORE

Any fans of the Afro Samurai series on MOG? The animated series picked up steam when it aired on Spike TV early last year, an Samuel L. Jackson is looking to bring it to the big screen as a live action film. "We have a live-action plan," Jackson revealed, saying that he wants to see Afro’s battle with Number One up on the big screen with flesh-and-blood actors. "Hopefully, that script will come together and we’ll be able to do that in the next two years or so." Sam s... MORE

If I were forced to pick my top 5 hip hop videos of all time, B.O.B would be an automatic lock to make the list. The imagery and unpredictable nature of everything you witness is ... crazy. I don't know who thought of the concept for this, or how exactly the treatment came to fruition but I'd love to be a fly on the wall in that meeting. The grass is purple, the ground is green, there are baboons in the back of a moving 18 wheeler with strippers, what's not to love?
Probabl... MORE

Today's explicit lyrics are reverbs of Mr Soultronica's post on "Prototype".

[Chorus 1]
I don't want to move too fast, but
Can't resist your sexy ass
Just spread, spread for me
(I can't, I can't wait to get you home)
Don't want to come on too strong, but
I'll play in you all day long
Just spread, spread for me
(I can't, I can't wait to get you home)
[Verse 1]
I... I can't read minds, but I can read yours
I think she says that she wants to pour your..
your... yourself all over me
What yo... MORE

Andre 3000's career in entertainment continues with Battle in Seattle, a film covering the infamous protest of the World Trade Organization in the late 90s. During the WTO meeting in Seattle, a diverse group of demonstrators, including environmental activists, doctors, anarchists, and people dressed as turtles brought the city to a state of near-chaos.
The movie also stars Woody Harrelson, Michelle Rodriguez, Charlize Theron, and Ray Liotta. The film is set for a March rel... MORE

'twas the night before Halloween. Dusk came earlier looking for autumnal mischief. Though there were no jack-o'-lanterns in the air, you could sense the dead had arisen and were walking with their distinctive empty glares...
They would have looked good in a t-shirt like the one above...



An incidental note on Dracula: Prince of Darkness, 1966:
Before Francis Ford Coppola and his baroque vision of blood and loss, after Nosferatu and its expressionistic sketches of a fog-li... MORE