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- Summary: This Grammy-winning follow-up to their smash 2000 hit 'Stankonia' is an OutKast album in name only, as it is structured in the form of two solo discs: one each for Big Boi (Speakerboxxx) and Andre 3000 (The Love Below).
- Record Label: La Face
- Genre(s): Rap
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Top Track
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Caroline! (Caroline!) See, Caroline, all the guys would say she's mighty fine (mighty fine) But mighty fine only got you somewhere half the time And... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 26
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Mixed: 1 out of 26
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Negative: 0 out of 26
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BlenderThis 'boxxx holds an explosion of creativity that couldn't have been contained in just one LP. [Nov 2003, p.118]
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Entertainment Weekly[The album's] ambition flies so far beyond that of anyone doing rap right now (or pop, or rock, or R&B), awards shows may need to create a special category for it. [19 Sep 2003, p.83]
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Apr 17, 2012OutKast's duo have made a cohesive statement that not only cries at the boundaries of rap music but vaults over them to a place where the music sounds like neon colors and the only rule is that you must free your mind. Your ears will follow.
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Where Dre twists Prince remnants to his own astroboyish amorous ends, Big Boi holds up OutKast's P-Funk revival tent.
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Speakerboxxx--by itself the album of the year--makes the failings of The Love Below all the more evident.
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Big Boi's Speakerboxxx coolly upstages its counterpart: though it, too, provides the world with one earthshaking single, it differs from The Love Below in that it also manages to maintain consistent brilliance and emotional complexity throughout.
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Each of these albums is as noteworthy for what's missing as for what's there.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 152 out of 172
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Mixed: 9 out of 172
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Negative: 11 out of 172
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AshekyssssSep 23, 2003its hot!
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MalikM.Jul 15, 2007This IS THE GREATEST ALBUM I EVER HEARD ANDRE 3000 IS A MUSICAL GENIUS
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stevenhSep 26, 2003outkast has again shown why they have been on top of there game as a group since 94, and all the hating groups need to stop with the break up rumors
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JelaniTJan 30, 2004
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KiriCNov 24, 2005
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BennieJOct 19, 2003If there was ever a doubt about who is #1 - ERASE IT! Funky, complex, brilliance!
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ThaGMannnOct 23, 2003
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