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 | Title : Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below
Author : Outkast
Release Date : 20030923
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $21.98
Amazon.com Price : $16.99
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Editorial Reviews :
At a time when experimentation is taboo in most overground rap, that’s all Outkast seem intent on executing. Firstly, this double CD has no cohesive link, other than the fact that it sounds like a pair of solo albums stitched together to demo exactly how Andre’s yin works to augment Big Boi’s yang. Andre 3000’s Love Below disc rates as the more eclectic of the two, given that he’s turned in his emcee credentials to become a full-on funk-soul-jazz vocalist who mostly sings about items of love ('Happy Valentine's Day'), carnal lust ('Spread'), and female adoration ('Prototype'). Minus the big band schmaltz of 'Love Hater' and cheesy cover jobs ('My Favorite Things'), Andre’s disc is sick (meaning great). As is to be expected, the Big Boi disc is less arty, more gangsta and worldly, and features the less-progressive guest raps of ATL crunk purveyors Lil’ Jon and The Eastside Boyz ('Last Call') and Jay-Z who rhymes the hook on 'Flip Flop Rock'. Unlike Big Boi, Andre keeps his collabos to a minimum, once crooning alongside Norah Jones on the cool yet sappy 'Take Off Your Cool', and once with Kelis. Boi fulfills his Dungeon Family duty with flying colors by flipping some dirty southern up-tempo raps over electro beats on 'GhettoMusick'. By the time Cee-Lo sermonizes on 'Reset', Speakerboxx and Love Below rate mostly as majestic and inspiring, with the remaining 23 per cent being just plain incredible --Dalton Higgins
Buyer Reviews :
OutKast is my favorite hip hop group rap group ---music anything. I just looked through the rest of the reviews and there is what is expected. It is true-these cds are good. It is true-these cds(the love below especially) are different. I would like to think that most people that would review something like this would be pretty big fans, so there is going to be a biased opinion on the high end. I will be honest; Speakerboxxx/the love below is not as good as South..., ATLiens, Aquemini, or Stankonia,( i have listened to the new ones five times+ -i write for the Mile High Times and first heard them at a press party a couple of weeks ago) but its outkast and just becuase of that me and many other people will buy it. The most important thing to understand is that dre- and, well, outkast do things differently and this cd is really different. Frankly you should buy this if you are an outkast fan or if you want to test it, but if you are a trendy poppy high school kid, buy jay-z. The bottom line is that it is different and you have not heard a cd like Dre's before--I know it. Whether you buy this or not should be based on what you think- not some of these people who say it is the best thing since sliced bread or that it is the worst thing since-i don't know, something bad!!! just try and listen to it first.
(by Alan Anderson)
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