Aquemini is the third studio album by American hip hop duo Outkast. It was released on September 29, 1998, by LaFace Records. The title is a portmanteau of the two performers' Zodiac signs: Aquarius and Gemini, which is indicative of the album's recurring theme of the differing personalities of the two members. The group recorded the majority of the album in Bobby Brown's Bosstown Recording Studios and Doppler Studios, both in Atlanta, Georgia.
André Lauren Benjamin, better known as André 3000, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, he is best known for being one-half of southern hip hop duo Outkast, alongside fellow Atlanta-based rapper Big Boi. Benjamin has been ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all time by publications including Billboard, Complex, The Source, and About.com.
Stankonia is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo Outkast. It was released on October 31, 2000, by LaFace Records. The album was recorded in the duo's recently purchased Atlanta recording facility Stankonia Studios, which allowed for fewer time and recording constraints, and featured production work from Earthtone III and Organized Noize.
Big Boi and Dre Present… Outkast is the only compilation album by the American Southern hip hop duo Outkast. It was released December 4, 2001 through LaFace/Arista Records. The compilation is composed of four new tracks, including three new songs—"Funkin' Around", "The Whole World" and "Movin' Cool ", as well as five songs from Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, one from ATLiens, and three each from Aquemini and Stankonia.
Patrick Leroy "Sleepy" Brown is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. He is one-third of the Atlanta-based production team of Organized Noize, which has created hits for acts such as Outkast, Goodie Mob and TLC. TLC's "Waterfalls", penned by Brown and Organized Noize's Rico Wade and Ray Murray, was a #1 hit single on Billboard's Hot 100 in the summer of 1995.
ATLiens is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Outkast. It was released on August 27, 1996, by Arista Records and LaFace Records. From 1995 to 1996, Outkast recorded ATLiens in sessions at several Atlanta studios—Bosstown Recording Studios, Doppler Recording Studios, PatchWerk Recording Studio, Purple Dragon Studios, and Studio LaCoCo—as well as Chung King Recording Studio and Sound On Sound Recording in New York City.
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo Outkast, released on April 26, 1994, by Arista Records and LaFace Records. Having befriended each other two years prior, rappers André 3000 and Big Boi pursued recording music as a duo and worked with production team Organized Noize, leading to a record contract with LaFace. With the team producing, Outkast recorded the album at the Dungeon, D.A.R.P. Studios, Purple Dragon, Bosstown, and Doppler Studios, all in Atlanta.
David Sheats, known professionally as Mr. DJ, is an American hip-hop producer and DJ from Atlanta. He and Outkast members Big Boi and André 3000 make up the record production company Earthtone III.
Purple Ribbon Records is a record label owned by Outkast and distributed through Virgin Records. It was formed in 2000 as Aquemini Records, named after OutKast's 1998 album of the same name. It is run solely by Big Boi. It is credited with launching the career of Janelle Monáe.
Purple Ribbon All-Stars was an American Southern hip hop supergroup under the Purple Ribbon Records label. The group consisted of Big Boi, Killer Mike, Janelle Monáe, Sleepy Brown, Scar, Konkrete, BlackOwned C-Bone, Rock D, and Vonnegutt.
Corey Andrews, a.k.a. BlackOwned C-Bone, is a member of the hip-hop crew the Dungeon Family and the trio Konkrete. He has made notable appearances on OutKast's "Gangsta Shit" in 2000 and on "Kryptonite", the lead single from 2006's Got Purp? Vol 2, Purple Ribbon Records' first major release.
The Beat Bullies are an American music production duo based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, composed of Teeth Malloy, Nicholas Sherwood and Nsilo Reddick. They co-produced Chamillionaire's debut album The Sound of Revenge, and have worked with numerous Atlanta-based rappers including T.I. and Ludacris.
"Kryptonite (I'm on It)" is a song by rap group Purple Ribbon All-Stars released as the first single from their album Got Purp? Vol 2.
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty is the debut studio album by American rapper Big Boi, released on July 5, 2010, by Purple Ribbon Records and Def Jam South Recordings. It is his first solo album, following his work as a member of the hip hop duo OutKast. Production for the album took place primarily at Stankonia Recording Studio in Atlanta during 2007 to 2010 and was handled by several record producers, including Organized Noize, J Beatzz, Scott Storch, Salaam Remi, Mr. DJ, and André 3000, among others.
"Royal Flush" is the debut solo single by American rapper and OutKast member Big Boi. The track was released on March 24, 2008 and it features fellow OutKast member André 3000 as well as Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon. It was the first time the three rappers collaborated with each other in 10 years since "Skew It on the Bar-B" off of OutKast's third album Aquemini in 1998. The song was intended to be included as part of Big Boi's debut solo album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, but was removed from it, due to legal complications from Big Boi resigning from Jive Records.
Banneker High School is a public high school in unincorporated Fulton County, Georgia, United States, with a College Park, Georgia postal address. It is part of the Fulton County School System and named for Benjamin Banneker, a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer.
Outkast was an American hip hop duo formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1992, consisting of rappers André 3000 and Big Boi. The duo achieved both critical and commercial success from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, helping to popularize Southern hip hop with their intricate lyricism, memorable melodies, and positive themes, while experimenting with a diverse range of genres such as funk, psychedelia, jazz, and techno.
Got Purp? Vol. 2 is the second and final studio album released by the Purple Ribbon All-Stars presented by Big Boi. The first, titled Got That Purp is a mixtape released under The Aphilliates. "Kryptonite " was released as the album's lead single. The song "Hold On" is the first Goodie Mob collaboration featuring all four original members since the group's World Party album and the Dungeon Family-collective Even in Darkness.
Antwan André Patton, better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American rapper, record producer and actor. Born in Savannah, Georgia and raised in Atlanta, he is best known for being one-half of southern hip hop duo Outkast, alongside fellow Atlanta-based rapper André 3000.
The Skinny is the debut solo studio album by American rapper and Dungeon Family member Slimm Calhoun. It was released on April 10, 2001, via Aquemini/Elektra Records. Production was handled by Earthtone III, The Beat Bullies, Butta, Carl Mo, Chronic Chris, Cutmaster Swiff, Jeminesse Smith, Organized Noize, Ruben James and Swift C. It features guest appearances from André 3000, Backbone, Big Boi, ChamDon, Killer Mike and Sleepy Brown, as well as cameo appearances from Dana Lewis, Joi, Lil' Will, Missy Ward, Mr. DJ, Screechy Peach, Sniper Unit and Supa Nate. The album peaked at number 78 on the Billboard 200 and number 19 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums in the United States. Its lead single "It's OK" made it to No. 35 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and topped the Hot Rap Songs chart.
