#big-boi — Public Fediverse posts
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Big Boi Among Executive Producers On Atlanta 1996 Olympics Documentary ‘We Ran The City’
#News #BigBoi #WeRanThisCityhttps://deadline.com/2026/04/big-boi-we-ran-this-city-atlanta-documentary-1996-olympics-1236875670/
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Big Boi:
🎵 Shutterbugg (feat. Cutty)https://beattrotterz.bandcamp.com/track/09-big-boi-shutterbugg-lord-faz-remix
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Hollywood Flashback: Outkast Found a Breath of Fresh Air With ‘Stankonia’
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OutKast célèbre les 25 ans de Stankonia avec une édition deluxe
Vingt-cinq ans après sa sortie, l’album emblématique d’OutKast, Stankonia, revient dans une édition spéciale deluxe. Disponible le 31 octobre, cette édition anniversaire inclut vinyles collector, CD, merchandising et des remix inédits.
Un classique qui traverse les générations
L’album qui a marqué l’histoire du hip-hop
Sorti il y a un quart de siècle, Stankonia demeure l’un des albums les plus influents du duo OutKast. Avec des morceaux désormais cultes tels que Ms. Jackson et So Fresh, So Clean, l’opus avait déjà connu un immense succès critique et commercial. Il a également permis au duo de collaborer avec des artistes de renom comme Erykah Badu, Killer Mike ou Gangsta Boo, renforçant sa réputation dans le paysage musical international.
PublicitésUne édition anniversaire pensée pour les fans
Pour célébrer ce jalon, OutKast propose une version deluxe disponible dès le 31 octobre. Cette édition se distingue par un coffret trois vinyles marbrés violets, accompagnés d’une nouvelle illustration signée André 3000. Les collectionneurs et mélomanes pourront également retrouver des CD, des T-shirts, des sweats et même une bannière. Un ensemble pensé pour immortaliser l’album et rendre hommage à sa longévité.
Contenu inédit et collector
Des remixes et faces B jamais diffusés
La nouvelle édition inclura des remixes et faces B qui n’avaient jamais été disponibles sur les plateformes de streaming. Bien que les titres exacts n’aient pas encore été précisés, cette initiative devrait séduire les fans les plus passionnés et offrir un éclairage inédit sur l’œuvre d’OutKast. Les amateurs pourront redécouvrir les classiques dans une version revisitée et enrichie, mettant en valeur l’évolution artistique du duo.
PublicitésUn packaging pensé pour les amateurs de vinyles
Au cœur de cette sortie, le coffret trois vinyles représente une pièce de collection unique. Le vinyle marbré violet, assorti à une nouvelle illustration d’André 3000, transforme l’expérience d’écoute en un véritable objet d’art. Les audiophiles et fans de hip-hop pourront ainsi revivre l’album dans un format authentique, fidèle à l’esthétique et à l’identité visuelle d’OutKast.
L’héritage de Stankonia
Un album aux collaborations remarquables
Stankonia a marqué un tournant pour OutKast, mêlant innovation musicale et collaborations prestigieuses. La présence de figures telles qu’Erykah Badu et Killer Mike illustre la capacité du duo à fédérer des talents variés et à créer une œuvre cohérente et audacieuse. Ces collaborations ont contribué à donner à l’album une richesse sonore qui lui a permis de traverser les décennies.
PublicitésUne influence durable sur la scène musicale
Avec son mélange de hip-hop, funk et soul, Stankonia a profondément influencé le genre et reste une référence pour de nombreux artistes contemporains. Le succès de morceaux comme Ms. Jackson a démontré l’impact culturel de l’album et sa capacité à toucher un large public, au-delà du simple cercle du hip-hop. L’édition anniversaire permet de célébrer cet héritage et de faire découvrir à de nouvelles générations un album fondateur.
Une sortie événementielle à ne pas manquer
L’édition deluxe comme objet de collection
Pour les collectionneurs, cette sortie représente bien plus qu’une simple réédition. Entre le coffret vinyle, les CD, le merchandising et les remix inédits, l’édition anniversaire de Stankonia offre une expérience complète, combinant musique, design et nostalgie. Les fans pourront revivre les émotions de 2000 tout en découvrant des éléments inédits.
PublicitésUne célébration mondiale
La sortie du 31 octobre s’accompagnera d’une visibilité mondiale, avec des supports physiques et numériques permettant à chacun de participer à l’événement. L’initiative souligne la place d’OutKast dans l’histoire du hip-hop et leur capacité à rester pertinents et influents, même après 25 ans de carrière. Cette édition anniversaire promet de renforcer encore la légende du duo et d’inscrire Stankonia dans la mémoire collective pour les années à venir.
Vingt-cinq ans après sa sortie, Stankonia continue d’inspirer et de rassembler. L’édition deluxe du 31 octobre célèbre non seulement l’album, mais également l’influence durable d’OutKast sur la scène musicale mondiale. Les fans et collectionneurs pourront vivre une expérience unique, entre nostalgie et découverte, redécouvrant un classique du hip-hop à travers un format inédit.
#André3000 #éditionDeluxe #BSides #BigBoi #hipHop #MsJackson #musiqueLégendaire #OutKast #remixesInédits #SoFreshSoClean #Stankonia #vinylesCollector
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#BostonWeekend 6x Through 9/28 HUGE FAIR The Big E out in West #SpringfieldMA - on top of all the 💩 you'd expect at an ag-focused fair, (food, rides, circus, midway, cars, motorcycles, flags) there's bands! #GovtMule, #BustaRhymes & #RickRoss, #TLC w/ #BigBoi, the #AvettBrothers, #Foreigner, #Train, #ZZTop, #ChubbyChecker, #Queensryche to name a handful from this round https://www.thebige.com
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#BostonWeekend 7x Through 9/28 HUGE FAIR The Big E out in West #SpringfieldMA - on top of all the 💩 you'd expect at an ag-focused fair, (food, rides, circus, midway, cars, motorcycles, flags) there's bands! #GovtMule, #BustaRhymes & #RickRoss, #TLC w/ #BigBoi, the #AvettBrothers, #Foreigner, #Train, #ZZTop, #ChubbyChecker, #Queensryche to name a handful https://www.thebige.com
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Big Boi bunny flop from George.
(rare underneath view)
#HouseRabbit #RabbitsOfMastodon #BigBoi #flop #floomp #tummy #bunny
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #StreetSounds
Big Boi feat. André 3000 & Raekwon:
🎵 Royal Flush (clean)https://open.spotify.com/track/1qhgBzRH0jOzoVZJ2K1hDn
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2cVwGPN1WK78W1iCP1qIWH🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg -
Tis the season for Gomez to help with the harvest. It shall be a bountiful season this year 🤭🐈⬛🧡
#cat #tuxedocat #blackwhitecat #silly #bigboi #gardening #catpot #lol #himsagoodboy #caturday #catstodon #photography #photo #catlife #catcontent #outdoors #kitty #pets #catsofmastodon #ohio #Pixel3XL
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Thursday Five List theme for this week is 360 Degrees by @SimoRavens19
Coogie, Jvcki Wai "North Face"
https://song.link/us/i/1534670487Goodie Mob Feat. Big Boi & Cool Breeze) "Dirty South"
https://song.link/us/i/1537674939Liz Phair "Go West"
https://song.link/us/i/724446941Bone Thugs~N~Harmony "East 1999"
https://song.link/us/i/11681672788Ball Feat.E-40, Spice 1, Rappin' 4-Tay "360°"
https://song.link/us/i/333894837#ThursdayFiveList #360Degrees #Coogie #JvckiWai #GoodieMob #BigBoi #CoolBreeze #LizPhair #BoneThugsNHarmony #8Ball #E40 #Spice1 #Rappin4Tay
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicFestivalLive
Big Boi:
🎵 Shutterbugg (feat. Cutty)https://beattrotterz.bandcamp.com/track/09-big-boi-shutterbugg-lord-faz-remix
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Einst als Underdog gehandelt, aber schon lange ein großer Junge: Wir widmen dem #Rapper #BigBoi zum 50. Geburtstag den Artikel des Tages https://www.dwds.de/wb/Underdog #HipHop
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I managed to take some outdoor photos before it rained of a Pyrex Insulator. And Gomez decided he wanted to join in on the fun :welp:
#cat #meow #tuxedocat #blackwhitecat #silly #bigboi lol #himsagoodboy #theyseemerollin #caturday #catstodon #photography #catlife #catcontent #outdoors #kitty #pets #Pyrex #Insulator #catsofmastodon #businesscat #smallbusiness #Pixel3XL
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Trick Daddy featuring Cee‐Lo & Big Boi:
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🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Big Boi feat. Big Rube:
🎵 Da Next Day -
Gomez ready to strike...a pose!
#cat #cats #meow #tuxedocat #blackwhitecat #silly #bigboi #lol #himsagoodboy #caturday #catstodon #photography #photo #catlife #catcontent #outdoors #kitty #pets #stoneware #crock #catsofmastodon #businesscat lol #smallbusiness #ohio #Pixel3XL
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Crocodile on my feet / Fox fur on my back / *Bowtie* round my neck... #JukeboxFridayNight #SongsAboutClothing #TheyWearItWell https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wkoln_0dNBY #Outkast #BigBoi #SleepyBrown #JazzePha
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Me attempting to take photos of a wooden yoke.
Gomez, yeah no you're not lol :smug:
#cat #cats #meow #tuxedocat #blackwhitecat #silly #bigboi #lol #himsagoodboy #caturday #catstodon #photography #photo #catlife #catcontent #outdoors #silly #kitty #pets #catsofmastodon #businesscat lol #smallbusiness #ohio #Pixel3XL
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Our next spotlight in our new “Thursday, What A Concept” series is on number 21 on The List, submitted by @dan.
Similar to Bowie’s Outside album (as noted in the previous TWAC post), Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid is but one of an ambitiously planned yet unfinished cycle of concept albums. Unlike with Bowie’s cycle, however, we have thankfully been gifted more than one part for Monáe’s cycle – five of seven to date, in fact, plus some change.
While Monáe’s 2007 debut EP, Metropolis: The Chase Suite, is considered the official beginning of the cycle, its roots can be found in Monáe’s 2003 demo album, The Audition (also called Metropolis: Point Zero), via two tracks. The setting – inspired by the silent film of the same name – as well as the general storyline and themes/concepts that are found in the releases that follow, are set out in “Metropolis”:
Population, ten zillion and six
Where signs say, “Welcome to the Star Core Metropolis”
Me, I live on the wired side of town
Reaching and searching for a space called paradise found…And it’s a common thought
That wired folk can be sold and bought
That we have no feelings, no memories or minds
That we’re bionic strumpets, only worth a dime
To some it’s a surprise when I smile
And when I hold your hand
They say, “How can a wired thing understand?
Love is too deep, it’s too wide to feel
When your soul is a button and your foot glows in heels”…Hey, Anthony Greendown from Sector Nine…
The love when I hold your hand
I wanna take you
Take you with me to another landIn the next track, “Cindi”, Monáe briefly introduces Cindi as their alter ago, who we will then follow in the Metropolis cycle: a time-travelling android named Cindi Mayweather, who is sentenced to disassembly because she fell in love with a human (the Anthony Greendown mentioned above). In running from the bounty hunters and seeming to die and being reincarnated at least once, Cindi transforms into something of a messianic figure for other oppressed androids, known as the ArchAndroid.
Following the brief 17-minute Metropolis: The Chase Suite (suite I of the cycle), The ArchAndroid (suites II and III of the cycle) has over a hour of room to really get into the story, which is then continued in the 2013 The Electric Lady (suites IV and V), also over an hour long. So, with that much material, it’s unsurprising that a lot could be said about the concept behind The ArchAndroid and its companion albums. The cycle is an absolutely brilliant, multi-layered piece of Afrofuturistic sci-fi that asks for (and deserves) repeated listening sessions. And, in fact, as quickly found in doing a brief search, many blog posts, articles, and at least a few academic papers have been devoted to the Metropolis/Cindi Mayweather cycle; The ArchAndroid in particular has a 33 1/3 volume published on it, and, as heard via discussion on Mastodon, has even been included in the curriculum for at least one course on contemporary Black literature. So, if you want to dig into the storyline more, there’s a lot out there to peruse.
As for the music? Even if you weren’t paying attention to the lyrics and story at all, this album takes you places. The breadth of styles/genres covered in The ArchAndroid (and the others in the cycle) – and, obviously, Monáe’s talent – is simply staggering. Monáe also uses a performance device that I really love in the work of other musical experimenters such as Bowie (and, to a lesser extent, Prince), that of using multiple distinct singing voices, either to indicate a different character or simply to match the style of the song – e.g., compare the dreamy classic musical/cinematic-type voice in “Sir Greendown” and “BaBopBye Ya” vs. what might be considered Monáe’s more “normal” voice in “Cold War” vs. the robotic/computery voice in “Wondaland” vs. the ethereal/folk tones in “57821” (The Chase Suite EP also has some operatic stuff going on in the glorious but short “Cybertronic Purgatory”). There are some fun cameos as well, including Saul Williams and Big Boi (of Outkast).
So, musically, you can’t go wrong with just listening to The ArchAndroid, but my suggestion would be to start from the beginning and listen to everything we have so far of the cycle. At least make sure you also get to what is currently the last entry in the cycle, The Electric Lady, both to hear the Prince cameo and the really fun radio interludes (…not to mention appearances by Erykah Badu, and Solange, et al.). It’s been over 10 years since The Electric Lady, but there’s still hope we’ll get the final instalments of this great cycle.
The ArchAndroid – what a concept!
#1001OtherAlbums #2010s #BigBoi #conceptAlbum #funk #JanelleMonáe #neosoul #psychedelic #SaulWilliams #ThursdayWhatAConcept
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This shall be a bountiful harvest this season 🤭🐱🧡🌱
#cat #cats #meow #tuxedocat #blackwhitecat #bigboi #bigboiyawn #lol #himsagoodboy #plants #garden #catgarden #caturday #catstodon #photography #photo #catlife #catcontent #outdoors #silly #kitty #pets #catsofmastodon #ohio #Pixel3XL
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I was outside taking photos of an Wurlitzer jukebox I was prepping to list and had this goober distracting me 😂🐱🧡
#cat #cats #meow #tuxedocat #blackwhitecat #bigboi #catyoga #lol #caturday #catstodon #photography #photo #catlife #catcontent #outdoors #silly #kitty #pets #catsofpixelfed #catsofmastodon #ohio #Pixel3XL
