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Outkast's Big Boi Arrested For Drug Possession

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Afro-Futurist Music- Sun Ra, OutKast, Kool Keith

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Big Boi is the Sir Lucious Left Foot...The Son of Chico Dusty

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Big Boi tells DJ Delz that Sir Lucious Left Foot will have three songs with Andre 3000

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Big Boi Announces Collabos With Andre 3000 on New Album

Big Boi has announced that his upcoming solo album, Sir Luscious Leftfoot will feature new collaborations with his long-time OutKast partner, Andre 3000. According to Boi, Dre will be featured on three of his album's records.

"It's already done," Boi said referring to new Andre 3000 collaborations. "We got three songs on the record, I ain't played that yet, I got to save something to hold it. Dre actually produced a record and we got a record that was produced by Boi-1da and it's me and Stacks, two verses a piece, back to back, just a lyrical manslaughter. Like, who better than the Kast n*gga? Nobody." (DJ Delz TV)

Southern rapper Chamillionaire recently told SOHH about his interest in seeing Andre make a strong rap comeback.

"One person I really think should come back man is Andre 3000," Cham told SOHH. "I don't know if he's going to but man, the game needs that dude man. For real. Musically, anything, features, I'd be happy with anything. He'll do one feature every ten years. [laughs] Like d*mn man, he came out with that 'Walk It Out' remix and that was ill, he ripped it. And that was it, he kinda fell back again. That's kinda what a lot of the OG's are doing, Eminem is the same way." (SOHH)

This week, Boi released a new single from his album called "Shutterbugg."

More than ten months after resolving legal issues holding up his new solo album, Big Boi is finally sharing his new music. The rapper and occasional ballet producer is kicking off what appears to be the official promotion for his long-awaited Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty with "Shutterbugg", a futuristic slice of funk deliciousness produced by Scott Storch, who's back on his game after a, uh, small rough patch. See if you can keep up with Big Boi as he rides the intricate beat, speaking up for Atlanta and proving that he hasn't lost a step. (Idolator)

His album will drop under Def Jam Records later this year.

"It was a lot of behind the scenes, label politics," Boi told hip-hop personality Gyant referring to his album delay. "A lot of people don't know, we started at LaFace Records with LA Reid...as of maybe three weeks ago [Jive] gave me the opportunity to take the album elsewhere, I called my big brother LA Reid, he said meet me in Miami the next day. We flew to Miami, played him the music, he said let's do it, deal is done..I'm not even concerned about nothing but me. People might say [Def Jam] doesn't have any hot artists but he got the number one record with Ludacris' last week...my album is a musical nuclear bomb...The OutKast album, I can't really say which label it'll be on because I really don't know which label it's gonna fall. I'm gonna put my solo album out first, Dre is working with his solo album right now..." (Gyant Unplugged)Big Boi has announced that his upcoming solo album, Sir Luscious Leftfoot will feature... more

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Rappers investment portfolios

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Cover for me on Friday

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B.o.B. aka Bobby Ray x Big Boi Collab : Nothing on You, Outkast?!

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Top 5 Music Mistakes of the Decade

Sergio Cilli counts down the best-selling tracks of the decade on this week's... more

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infoMania: Best clips from the week of 01.07.10

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5 Great Albums of the Decade.

Its human nature to try and quantify things, so often we talk of films, actors, TV shows and attempt to fit them into an empirical structure. But If I’ve learnt anything in these fledging years of the internet it is the risk of making a list which toys with the subjective, as you the reader have the ability and the right to hurl abuse at me from the anonymity of your internet persona. So in an act of fairness (cowardice) I’m not going to preach to you a list of the top 5 albums this decade in order, or even try to pretend that this list is anything but a spur of the moment musing. All I will say is that I have attempted here to bring a broad range of music from the decade that summarises its sound, these are not the 5 best perhaps but they are 5 greats that deserve to be remembered beyond the Noughties.

The Avalanches ‘Since I left You’ (2000)

I’ve decided to start this list naturally, at the beginning of the decade, but with a reasonably obscure choice. This Australian electronic outfit are probably best remembered for their zany, comedic effort ‘Frontier Psychiatrist.’ A song which received significant airplay in the wake of this album, causing many to pigeonhole the group as one-hit wonder jokers. But such a judgement is to be made at your peril as one listen to this album reveals a complex electronic masterpiece using a diversity of samples and a neo-psychedelic overtone. The Avalanches here demonstrate a masterful control of melody and mixing.

The Strokes ‘Is This it’ (2001)

Some will speak of this debut from these New York rockers as the beginning of a new era of rock and roll. With their garage sound and post-punk revival elements the Strokes received messianic praise as the saviours of a music scene that had seemed to lose its way (think Limp Bizkit). Hailing from that artistic hotbed that is The Big Apple the band drew comparisons to other musical revolutionaries like the New York Dolls, or The Velvet Underground. Indeed, in the wake of this great album rock music has returned to comfortable stripped down style (in Britain at least), and this album can be seen as an integral part of the foundation, with its DIY style and nihilistic vibe ‘Is This It’ is an album which never gets tiresome and doesn’t fail to live up to its hype.

Burial, ‘Burial’ (2006)

Dubstep is something of an enigma, a breakaway from the UK garage scene of the previous decade it emphasised the darker elements of baseline in dance music. The enigmatic conundrum arises from the popularity of this avant-garde movement in the UK scene. Many are quick to dismiss the genre as the emperor’s new clothes, a faddish culture developed out of mere necessity to be different. But take one listen to this eponymous debut from this East London pioneer and the musical genius of dubstep is instantly tangible. The dark elements and intense baselines remain coherent throughout unlike some predecessors in the genre. Artists like Burial have elevated this style into the critical mainstream, and created the 21st century version of music to scare your parents.

Outkast ‘Stankonia’ (2000)

It seems that in a decade where the charts have been dominated by R & B and Hip Hop numbers it would be ridiculous to turn a blind eye to it on this list. Yes in the realm of music snobbery it may be fashionable to dismiss it. But in this album Andre 3000 and Big Boi produce a diversity of soundscape that makes it unfair to consign it to one genre. Drawing influence from a wide range the album produced classics with polar opposite sounds such as the distinctly Hip-Hop chart topper ‘Ms. Jackson’ or the Fast-paced dance like ‘B.O.B' a necessary listen for any musical epicurean. A demonstration of Hip Hop at its intellectual well constructed finest, as good as what A Tribe Called Quest did for rap in the 90's.

Radiohead, ‘In Rainbows’ (2007)

Yes, I am aware to some that it may seem lazy to end this brief summary of what the decade has to offer with a Radiohead album. Almost every critic everywhere waxes lyrical about this group that it is probably much more enjoyable to read a negative portrayal of their contributions to music. But I’ve decided to bore you anyway. ‘In Rainbows’ deserves a place in a great albums list not just because of the musical content (which is a solid 9.5/10), but also because of the iconic way Radiohead independently released it and asked fans to pay whatever they deemed fit for the album, a revolutionary take on the current music industry predicament and the download culture. Musically the album is exceptional, with a development on the decades earlier classic ‘Kid A’ fusing electronic music with rock seamlessly and with noble beauty. In Rainbows is a must for music fans everywhere.Its human nature to try and quantify things, so often we talk of films, actors, TV... more

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Three new Outkast albums to drop in 2010

Antwan 'Big Boi' Patton has told Billboard that a new Outkast album will be... more

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Kid Cudi is the man!

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HipHop Storytelling

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Outkast's Big Boi Does A Sea World Promo

Taking a break from the preparation for his solo album, Big Boi from Outkast took his... more

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Sufjan Stevens remix hip hop mixtape

Montreal-based Tor re-upped Sufjan Stevens 2005 Illinoise, this mixtape has sampled... more

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ANDRE 3000 DEBUTS PLAY BASED ON CARTOON

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Big Boi - Shoutout the V.O.T.E.

Big Boi from Outkast jumps on the celebrity bandwagon with a non-partisan shoutout for... more

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Music or Fashion?

Check out the fashion lines from musicians such as British rapper M.I.A. and... more

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André Benjamin’s Clothing Line Includes Plus Fours and Club Sweaters - NYTimes.com

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