What Really Happened To André 3000? | The True Story of Outkast..

What if I told you that most of your favorite modern rappers imitate the group Outcast to make you cry? I apologize, for example, Tyler the Creator was inspired by Andre's images for his Eigor album. He wouldn't be here or on stage. or have this silly hat or anything without the Q-tips the Andre

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part Eminem used Andre's beats for the creation of his own tracks and until I collapsed he referred to him as one of the best rappers of all time Andre by J oh yes and in general many people react like this when they hear the name Andre how do you like it when you say Andre

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you have to pause now and let's not forget Big Boy Who inspires many with his lyrical mastery he can rhyme words that don't they rhyme according to Andre big boy can rap better than him in 2004 Outcast had already received six Grammys and it would seem that everything is going according to plan the boys had achieved everything they set out to do however their most popular and legendary album speaks speaker box love Below unexpectedly became the last release in the duo's hi

story

and all that simply because they decided to go their separate ways due to different artistic and life priorities, although at first this never stopped them, but being famous

really

sucks for the man Outcast knew at school secondary.

The Atlanta students enrolled at Tri Cities High School in East Point Georgia, a school aimed at students hoping for a career in the performing arts, oh my. C above, they stood out from the other students they initially remember due to their unusually preppy clothing. However, it was music that cemented their early friendship. They were both fans of the edgier vein of hip-hop artists like Deas Soul, The Brand New Beans and A Tribe Called Quest, and also the '70s Funk of artists like George Clinton and Sly. The big boy from Family Stone and Andre began writing their own wraps which they turned into mixtapes.

They initially named their set two shades deep, but discovered it had already been taken over by another group and renamed themselves The Misfits, which they also discovered was being used. searching Misfit in the dictionary they found the synonym Outcast and decided to use it, but keep well the phonetic spelling K of the dictionary. We were trying to think of a word you know I'm saying to describe us as the people you know I'm saying and that's it. Every day since you were born, Dre and the big boy later admitted to having a wild streak in their teens and Andre dropped out of Tri Cities High School after their junior year, however, their ambitions were strong and they looked for a way to enter to the music. the business at the time the Atlanta scene was growing rapidly at the time TLC crisscross was already at the forefront of the entire hip-hop industry the

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spirit and sound of the city was not yet heard in a basement in southeast Atlanta the sleepy brown Ray Murray and Rico Wade had joined forces to create and produce music that they themselves called organized noise, eventually La face records caught wind of them and the guys started writing beats for the label, however, they needed to find rappers, like Rico Wade remembers when he worked in the Cosmetics Department.

The girl said that she knows two boys from school who know how to rap. They ended up running into Andre and a big boy who was around 15 or 16 at the time after the teens finished rapping. Rick understood that this is exactly

what

they need. 1993, but no, it's 1994. And on going with you all, you all know I used to go with them, they headed to that same legendary basement and started putting together some music, it seemed like everything started out great, but in just a moment The boys lost faith, that's how it was. When label producer LA Reid, who worked in the pop and R&B sectors, said he doubted they could become stars, sure they had great lyrics but he didn't see any unique personality or style in them, the guy started thinking

what

if?

Maybe they started it all. This was to no avail, however, Dre and the big boy continued anyway and became even better organized. The noise urged them to become unique and it worked for them. The next time Reed heard them, he understood that this was what was needed and said that Outcast finally played. unique and nothing like the east or west coast, the label finally offered them a contract, then Reed called them and told them they had a Christmas album prepared. The big boy was like, WTF, we're rappers, why the hell would we rap about Christmas and stuff?

They made a song about how Christmas doesn't come in Hood, the song that helped put them on the map is Players Ball. The song started playing on the radio, you know, I do. After the success of Players Ball, the boys began diligently. working on his debut album, which was called Cadillac Southern Musical Music, over and over again thinking about the time when we were slaves, I bet at that time the east coast and the west coast sounded more or less the same, and it's precisely That's why the music of people like Outcast stood out a lot, the album was very well received by music critics and fans.

This marked the birth of southern hip hop. The Outcasts were the first Southern group to break hip-hop's coastal fortress like the Beatles sparking the British Invasion. Atlanta on the map and opened the door for all the southern rappers who would follow that debut is one of the many reasons why Outcast is probably the biggest hip-hop group since NWA doesn't get it and then the Sinister and tragic Source Awards of 1995. of which we have a separate video about at that time no one took southern rap seriously, the New York radio hosts said that they were country and that they would not play their music obviously this seriously bothered the protagonists of our video in summary When they scored a win in the Best New Rap Group nomination, the big boy composed himself and tried to be cool about it.

Goody Mob in the house, you know what I'm saying, I mean what's wrong with New York, you know what I'm saying, 'cause we're from the bottom. down south, you know what I'm saying there, New York, in this, you know what I'm saying, is everyone here, you know what I'm saying, in this city, then there was Andre, who was a little too excited and spoke . saying: I'm tired of people, you know what I'm saying, closed-minded people, you know what I'm saying, it's like we have a demo tape that nobody wants to listen to, but it's like that, the South has something to say. all I had to say is yeah, big time and Dre remembered that KN didn't

really

care what we were doing big time, he said in '96 if you weren't from New York they were like that but we put all our damn time into the effort.

When making our albums and it really doesn't make sense for them to act like that, the second album was named At Alens, which became the group's breakthrough album. at alens is an ATL Shore Hand port for Atlanta and alien it represents. Feelings of disconnection from the common world, but also his desire to celebrate his past in Atlanta. This project really highlights some of the core elements of rap that we see today along with an homage to the origins of rap. However, there is the use of hard accounts. not as mixed as today, along with reusing samples and turning them on their heads, they learned a lot about production from organized noise, so starting with this album they started working on some tracks themselves.

The duo produced five of the 15 cuts, including on alens and elevators me and you, me and you, by the way, Outcast's music videos were always ideological and unique, for example, this is what Dre said about elevators, se It was about symbolism, the scenes where we go through the jungle that represents that. We are on a journey, the scenes we meditate on, it is as if we are trying to make our inner Spirit well, given the title of the song, big added that the video also symbolizes his growth to a higher level and it became clear that They were on another level when Andre changed his life and one day Dre told his loved ones that he no longer wanted to do the things he had been doing for the last few years, he stopped drinking, smoking marijuana and even stopped eating meat, on top of that. all.

From that his hair grew, he began to use turbine and began to get into spiritualism for those who do not know what spiritualism is, it is the belief in the afterlife and the possibility of communicating with the spirits of the dead through a medium. Andre met a woman named Erica Badu who was also interested in following a vegetarian diet. They met in a club in New York at the time. Erica had just entered the music industry. She was an unusual and brave woman and Andre began to develop some of these traits that they fell in love with. another and some time later Erica became pregnant after the birth of her son Andre thought even more about how to change his life at that time Big Boy and Andre rarely saw each other each of them had different interests for example the big boy went to parties while Andre no longer had different tourist buses.

Smoking was allowed on one of them and prohibited on the other. You can understand who traveled on each bus. Big Boy couldn't believe that Dre no longer smoked and became a totally different person. Dre stopped smoking. wear tabin and chose more striking outfits, for example, he could wear ski boots with a platinum wig. He has always said that he wanted to dress like a musician, saying that music is beautiful and colorful. Because of such changes, it was believed that Andre had gone crazy and many even began to question their orientation and that is why their next album Aquam Meni was a turning point for them.

Here they embraced their individuality and expressed who they really are. Aquam Mini means Aquarius and Gemini. They both took their own zodiac signs and put them together demonstrating each of their individualities and how. they come together as a whole aquam Mani is a statement of total freedom without taking your toes off the ground. Nearly every member of The Dungeon Family contributes memorably, but the outcasts took on more creative control than ever before Big Boy started rapping even better and cooler than before. and Dre became a wonderful producer. An interesting fact is that the Ho Down Sizzle harmonica in Rosa Parks belongs to Andre's stepfather.

However, before the well-known Rosa Parks, the album includes the song Return to the G up with Andre breaking up after finishing. southern gangster perspective on their debut album Southern Musical Music by Cadillac Outcast Andre, in particular, flipped the script and replaced his Glocks with powerful lyrics on his next album, At Alien, prompting criticism from real hip people -hop who considered the decision. stop rapping about guns and violence be soft Andre 3000 was heavy on this song and provided insight into his verse. I quote I was young and Wilder and some of my fashion choices people didn't accept at the time, says Andre.

In an interview I started getting flags from some people so they told me I was gay or not high and it's funny because I was high all the way through all of Cadillac's southern music but in Aliens and Aquam Mini I wasn't smoking. or drinking with big boys next to me I knew I had to address some of this because I can't let my friend look back. I knew that a lot of people felt that Southern music was one of our hardest jobs and they felt like we had drifted away from there. so Return of the Gangsta was trying to give them a feeling of "hey, I'm still a normal person," Big Boy added, saying that back then there were a lot of people talking and he just couldn't understand how we were making the kind of music that we were. making there be a lot of attacks on my partner, so we wanted Outcast to be like you my friend, we are going to attack you, we wanted people to know that this man can't stand alone, I mean that's my dog, it's a team. effort Andre 3000 was a philosopher who forced each of us to think with his lyrics, he could also rhyme a 32 bar rhyme and you'll still be on the edge of your seat from bar one to bar 32 on the Aquaman I track in verse.

Four Andre changes the flow of it and does a very good job of quadrupling the time of it while maintaining the same rhyme scheme for the entire verse, often considered one of the best verses of his and one of the best verses of any song. of hip hop. In general, the verse closely follows the anapestic tetrameter, meaning that it has four anapestic feet per line. An anapest is two short syllables followed by a long one. Andre uses his flow for most of the verse, but it is most notable in the original alien skin and his lines happening, The Way.

Eminem's I Am is another famous example of versus in anapestic tetrameter in hip-hop with Zs bagging me and the most interesting thing is that Ice Cube said in an interview that the rhythm between the West Coast and the East Coast ended when people changed to the south. All the hip-hop fans in the scene were so fed up with East Coast West Coast beef that they said, "You know, let's just pay attention to what the South is doing." You have to heal your wounds and return so that this is not the case. It's surprising why they ended this album the following way, as if South hadsomething to say, that's all I have to say, if everything was going well in the guys' careers, then dark times were affecting the artist's personal life.

Andre was going through a breakup with his baby mama. which seriously hurt the rapper at the same time that the big boy was going through a difficult time with his wife, he already had a son at that time, but soon he had a second child, however, this time it was already from a different woman, so the boys had to return. to the studio to escape his own personal problems and that's exactly how the legendary song Miss Jackson came about to make you cry. The song is primarily directed at Miss Wright, aka Colleen Wright, the mother of Andre's baby Erica Badu, but Andre chooses. replace her name with the generic Miss Jackson so that this song would remain relevant to all the baby mothers in the world.

Andre revealed in an interview that he was too nervous to address Erica's mom face to face, so he decided to apologize indirectly. Through this song I liked it, but how did my mom feel? Our baby. He bought her a Miss Jackson license plate. She had the cup. She had the pop-up merch store. She had the inkwell. She had the tiara. Everything you know. Miss Jackson catapulted southern rap. Duo Outcast entered the mainstream reaching the top five in several countries and becoming the first of three number one songs on the Billboard Hot 100, but also won the Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 2002.

This success is from the album Stankonia, which also received Grammy awards in the nomination for best album of the year and best rap album. We cannot forget these successes either. Burnic Dreams Everye Stonia had opened up a kaleidoscopic world that was more of a journey than a statement, one that reveals itself on Both the detours and the singles, it's an album not just of the moment, but one to let marinate and savor for the entire life. life following the release of the Outcasts' fourth studio album. Andre 3000 felt compelled to do something different from his previous projects.

I moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, with relatively little success. He landed a minor role in Hollywood Homicide and an appearance in one episode of the drama series The Shield. He returned to music and recorded a solo album and came up with the name The Love Below which he went by. Unlike the material he had recorded as part of Outcast, the result was a mix of Pop Jazz and Funk with live instruments and more singing than rapping. When he recorded songs, he used a microcassette recorder to record melodic ideas and lyrics and then constructed the melody.

Lyrically, after creating five songs, he informed Big Boy about the solo project he had been working on. Big Boy had already recorded some songs when Andre 3000 contacted him, but after their conversation he decided that his next project would be the John Fry speaker box in the studio. The manager and an engineer would later acknowledge that much of the media attention surrounding the album's recording was related to Andre 3000 and Big Boy's working relationship and why they had chosen to record separately. He admits that they both enjoyed working alone. We are doing it more frequently, but. They continued to share and critique each other's music.

John Fry also describes how the format of the projects changed quickly, initially intended as two separate solo releases, they decided to merge their work and create a soundtrack album as Dre 3000 had initially planned and eventually decided to release a double album he noted that The end of the recording sessions was particularly stressful for Andre 3000, who he described as exhausted from working in the studios simultaneously, however it was worth it, this diligent work was highly valued by the hip-hop industry after having had three number two albums on the Billboard 200 Outcasts were finally able to debut at number one on the Billboard charts selling over 510,000 copies in its first week the single heya reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States topping the charts there for n weeks, the speaker box features more socially conscious southern hippopotamus than love below, exploring themes of family philosophy, religion, politics, and broader emotional terrain, from melancholy to outrage to expression; on the contrary, love below is identified as a sample of jazz pop funk comparable to the music of The abundant theme of Prince's album is love, examining the emotions one experiences when falling in love and the love in the breakup that Andre He had with Erica Badu had influenced much of the album's lyrical content, which he considers related to the search for

true

love.

Dre ignored rap completely. In favor of light cleverness in the Times interview, Andre explained that I was on my way before I even met Erica, but one thing I can say is that I'm singing in the house and Erica says that sounds great, why Don't you do it in 2004? the first and still only artist to win album of the year for rap we love you all thank you very much southern musician catac music but they also won in two other nominations and specifically best rap album of the year and best urban alternative performance there Andre wasn't that excited For example, when he received the award for best rap album, he was not so talkative, thanks by the way, in 2023, Speaker Boox, The Love Below officially became the best-selling rap album of all time, which sold 13 millions of copies. sales of the launch surpassed sales of the iconic show M&M In a 2006 interview with MTV Andre 3000 hinted at the possibility of a hiatus saying I don't have a pulse anymore, it's not that exciting for me, it was clear that Andre 3000 and the big boy were ready to take a break from Outcast Andre continued to entertain us from time to time with some songs, for example, hear for yourself how great his verse is in the Rick Ross song, a dolphin shaking his fin regardless of whether he enters or leaves the water.

The most important thing for him is to swim more. He continued to maintain ties with rappers, for example, he was in the studio with Kendrick Lamar. Oh, and he didn't give up his acting career either. Mo was broke, you know? But we're okay, yes, we've done it. right, L could also hang out with us and be broke and cool, in turn, Big Boy continued making music releasing two albums, however, neither of these appeased the fans and they were waiting for a reunion for many years and in 2014, the outcast reunited for Coachella. and a guaranteed tour Andre can still remember that first night how strange it was to be back on stage in front of thousands of people, not to mention Paul McCartney and Prince, who called the next day to reproach Andre for withdrawing from the show at halfway through the show and The first thing he says is that they know what their problem is, they don't realize how big they are.

They have to remind people who they are after The Reunion. Andre went back to doing what was comfortable for him, which was being alone. he was often seen in the streets where he played the flute hello Andre hello as if he had two holes you know so it's like a pause currently he is satisfied with the fact that he has a peaceful life and that he can go wash his clothes without anyone bother him yes of course people approach him, however this is not comparable to other celebrities, it's not just Kanye West for example. I know Kanye you're a celebrity.

Andre admitted that throughout his life he struggled with social anxiety, in his own words, the cause of everything was his great fame because it is really unnatural to have so much attention as a human. You know, Andre said that big boy never pressured him to revive the group and he totally understands why that's because Andrea is already a drastically different person the year before. released a new album new blue sun and the first song is called I swear I really wanted to make a rap album but that's literally how the wind took me this time, the thing is that in an interview for GQ Andre said no can you imagine rapping at this age I remind you that he is currently 48 years old things that

happened

in my life like you talk like I have to go look for a colony like what are you doing however he doesn't think about that but he wants I understand how to present him to the community of a interesting way.

He also admitted that he is not against recording the One More album for Outcast. I want another Outcast album. And you know what I mean. Yes, I wanted Outcast for a long time. In the meantime, we have. 87 minutes of experimental jazz and instrumental flute music where there is no bass, absolutely no vocals from Andre, just an arsenal of win instruments both analog and digital that are available at the musician's disposal. There are eight tracks in total, but many of them are longer. 10 Minutes Big Boy recently posted online a totally emotional video with Andre 3000 that you could only watch with a smile on your face.

Outcast was a notable group that proved that there are no limits in hip-hop, you can dress any way you want. and make the kind of music you want and these principles are used by many modern artists. The next video that I recommend you watch is about the tragic

story

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