December 04, 2003
shake it, shake it

You'll be shocked, but I happen to really, really like Outkast. When they're on(which isn't always the case) they produce some of the most inventive music being made today. "Hey Ya" has one of the most infectious funk grooves to grace the charts since "Little Red Corvette." That said, I thought this description of Atlanta from Pitchfork Media's Brent DiCrescenzo was incredibly apt. One thing though, Brent, I think you mean Little Five points.

The twelve-lane Connector plows through Atlanta like the Nile of pavement. Along its fenced banks lie the majority of the city's attractions. Turner buildings, blossoming with neon network logos, lure Yellowjacket grads from the adjacent campus cluster with the sweet nectar of Powerpuff Girls money. Across the way, The Varsity serves grease between buns, communicating with a enigmatic fast food lexicon that rivals rhyming Cockneys. Tourists walk the overpass to the ghostly Olympic park, built on the graveyard of Techwood projects, in the shadows of Vick's pastel dome. Hipsters and reluctant yuppies settle in the gentrified Five Points and Cabbagetown, giving their quaint subdivisions more verdant "__________ Park" monikers. And finally, there's Turner Field, reverberating collective October sighs, before the highway splits back into its tributaries in East Point, the cultural fountainhead. The hip-hop id to New York's ego: the home of Outkast.
Posted by mikewolf at December 04, 2003 10:06 PM
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There's another Outkast single out that's pretty good too. It's a double album, or two solo albums paired together. The mainstream radio's playing the heck out of Hey Ya, so I guess it's cool now for white folks to like Outkast, now that 99X and Q100 are playing it.

Posted by: LadyCrumpet on December 5, 2003 10:17 AM

Oh, that's just great news. I'll have to hate them soon, then :-)

kidding, kidding

This pair of albums isn't as cohesive, for obvious reasons, as some of their other stuff. I like Andre's disc a whole lot more than Big Boi's (his, obviously, is pretty gangsta) but it's still missing "something." Oh, and the Norah Jones thing is pretty unbearable.

"Skanktonia" is still my favorite after Susan pretty much forced me to buy it.

Posted by: mrw on December 5, 2003 10:52 AM

Okay, I really should be working. I'm on a client's dime right now. But I just wanted to add that despite my efforts Outkast and old Public Enemy are about the only rap that I really like. The Outkast I really like tends to be Andre's funk, though. I've listened to a lot of the stuff that's supposed to be really good and smart and just find that it does nothing for me. I downloaded a bunch of Dizzee Rascal the other day since he's the new hot indie thing but I totally abhored it. What am I missing?

Posted by: mrw on December 5, 2003 11:06 AM
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