OutKast - Speakerboxxx: The Love Below - 4LP
"The South got somethin' ta SAY."
Speakerboxxx: The Love Below OutKast The Album: Follow-up to the 3x Platinum Stankonia. It was released on September 23, 2003, by Arista Records.
Issued as a double album, its length of over two hours is spread across solo albums from both of the group's members. Big Boi's Speakerboxxx is a Southern hip hop album with a P-Funk influence, while André 3000's The Love Below features psychedelic, pop, funk, electro, and jazz styles.[6]
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was supported with the hit singles "Hey Ya!" and "The Way You Move", which both reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and the top-10 hit "Roses". The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 510,000 copies in its first week. It eventually amassed a total of seven non-consecutive weeks at the top of the chart and 24 weeks in the Top 10. It has been certified diamond and 11 times platinum by the RIAA (each disc in the double album counted as a separate unit for certification). As of March 2012, it has sold 5.7 million units in the United States.[7]
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below received widespread acclaim from music critics, who praised the consistency of Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and the eclectic musical style of André 3000's The Love Below. It topped The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll, and won Album of the Year and Best Rap Album at the 46th Grammy Awards, while "Hey Ya!" won Best Urban/Alternative Performance. The album has been acclaimed as one of the greatest albums of the 2000s and was ranked 290th in Rolling Stone’s 2020 edition of their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.
The Cover For This Album Is Designed So That The Back And Front Of The Album Can Be Seen As Separate Covers Featuring Either Member Of OutKast. (4 LP Set)
Tracks:
- - Disc 1 -
- 1 Intro
- 2 Ghetto Musick
- 3 Unhappy
- 4 Bowtie - Outkast, Jazze Pha, Sleepy Brown
- 5 Way You Move - Outkast, Sleepy Brown
- 6 Rooster
- 7 Bust - Killer Mike, Outkast
- 8 War
- 9 Church
- 10 Bamboo (Interlude)
- 11 Tomb of the Boom - Big Gipp, Konkrete, Ludacris, Outkast
- 12 E-Mac (Interlude)
- 13 Knowing
- 14 Flip Flop Rock - Jay-Z, Killer Mike, Outkast
- 15 Interlude
- 16 Reset - Cee-Lo, Khujo Goodie, Outkast
- 17 D-Boi (Interlude)
- 18 Last Call - Slimm Calhoun, East Side Boyz, Lil Jon, Mello, Outkast
- 19 Bowtie (Postlude)
- - Disc 2 -
- 1 Love Below (Intro)
- 2 Love Hater
- 3 God (Interlude)
- 4 Happy Valentine's Day
- 5 Spread
- 6 Where Are My Panties?
- 7 Prototype
- 8 She Lives in My Lap - Rosario Dawson, Outkast
- 9 Hey Ya!
- 10 Roses
- 11 Good Day, Good Sir
- 12 Behold a Lady
- 13 Pink & Blue
- 14 Love in War
- 15 She's Alive
- 16 Dracula's Wedding - Kelis, Outkast
- 17 My Favorite Things - Norah Jones, Outkast
- 18 Take Off Your Cool
- 19 Vibrate
- 20 A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andrincomplete)