So please join us in the chat to ask questions, or just to shout out your love and thoughts. We're going to the listen to OutKast's "soundtrack of the culture" with three great minds of ATL hip-hop. When people pick up the album ten years from now, they can feel what's going on at this time - a soundtrack of the culture." People in the street, they losing they mind, that's the tempo. "We just try to make the music for the times, man," Andre 3000 told XXL Magazine in 2000. (Digitally out this Friday, the 20th anniversary reissue features previously unreleased remixes by Cutmaster Swiff, Zack de la Rocha and Beat Bullies.) Jackson" and "So Fresh, So Clean" - but over its 73-minute run time, broke beyond hip-hop's boundaries with a sprawling, giddy vision. It produced three singles - "B.O.B.," "Ms. 31, 2000, by LaFace Records, Stankonia was the fourth studio album by OutKast, recorded in the duo's own Stankonia Studios. You can RSVP through NPR Presents and watch via YouTube. Hosted by scholar Regina Bradley (author of the forthcoming Chronicling Stankonia: the Rise of the Hip Hop South), we'll stream the album in its entirety and feature a live conversation with music journalists Christina Lee and Gavin Godfrey. Let's listen together.For the 20th anniversary of OutKast's Stankonia, join NPR Music's listening party this Friday at 2 p.m.
Rather, it’s a strange, dense, dark and genre-bending cocktail of ideas and sounds, masterfully rendered by an increasingly eccentrically-dressed Three Stacks and grounded by the reliable swagger of Big.
In retrospect, it comes as no surprise that Stankonia is the complete opposite to the appealing pop-crossover victory lap it easily could have been. You can RSVP through NPR Presents and watch via YouTube. But OutKast are nothing if not subversive. For the 20th anniversary of OutKast's Stankonia, join NPR Music's listening party this Friday at 2 p.m.
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