We will publish his answers on 3 December in print in the Film & Music section, and also online. The pair each went solo on the conjoined double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below – which won the 2004 Grammy for album of the year, and featured the signature Big Boi and Sleepy Brown track, and US No 1 single, The Way You Move – then teamed back up for the underrated album Idlewild (its Brown-enhanced single Morris Brown is a joyous gem).Īside from a world tour in 2014, Outkast have been on hiatus since then, but Big Boi has released three solo albums, interspersed with the occasional acting role – the slapstick golf comedy Who’s Your Caddy? is, oddly enough, a favourite of Bill Clinton’s.īringing his technical mastery and left-brained imagination to commercial rap has resulted in some of the genre’s most distinctive hits over the years: Ms Jackson, BOB, Rosa Parks and so many more for Outkast, plus other collaborations including UGK’s International Players Anthem, Missy Elliott’s All N My Grill, Killer Mike’s ADIDAS, and tracks with Beyoncé, Janelle Monáe, George Clinton and Gucci Mane.Īfter a pandemic period he said was spent “sharpening our craft and spending time with the family and learning how to cook”, he created The Big Sleepover, which will be released on 10 December. accentuated by the contrast of Big Boi's white T-shirt and Andre 3000's bare black. Photograph: Banky Images/NBCUĪcross a run of truly classic albums – Southernplayalisticadillacmusik, ATLiens, Aquemini and Stankonia – Big Boi and André 3000 became rap’s defining double act, each matching the other for propulsive metre and satisfying rhyme schemes. Coming out of Atlanta, Georgia, Outkast has continually contested the. Sleepy Brown and Big Boi perform on The Jimmy Fallon Show earlier this month.

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