Big Boi had become a father before OutKast dropped ATLiens, and was more of a homebody during the sessions for what would become Aquemini. “This right here is extreme, OutKast-extreme.”Īnd the two high school friends were each evolving in his own way. “We bringin’ that funk back, like we always did from the first album,” André said. “We don’t do sampling where you can identify none of our music,” Big added. Throughout the project, OutKast would borrow elements from everything from Henry Mancini's Police Woman theme to an deep album cut from prog-rock legends Genesis but the way it organically grew into something altogether different speaks to the creative sensibilities of Dre and Big. You’ll never know where it came from ’cause we alter it so much to fit what we doing that it’s OutKast.” “We’ll sample a horn riff or some type of drum kick or snare or anything. “We like to do ‘creative sampling,'” Big Boi said in 1998. And at a time when Hip-Hop was delving into familiar samples for big mainstream hits, OutKast took pride in their own unorthodox approach. Organized Noize's expertise and mentorship were still very present during the sessions for what would become OutKast's third album, but 'Kast (alongside their deejay, Mr. Around the same time, André and Big Boi were becoming more comfortable producing themselves. Organized Noize had inked a major deal with Interscope, meaning the trio's talents were spread across several projects. A S.W.A.T Healin' Ritual and Goodie Mob's 1998 sophomore album Still Standing.Ĭhange was happening within the Dungeon Family, however. That same year, OutKast released ATLiens, charting a course for southern-bred Afrofuturism that would permeate more Dungeon Family releases throughout 19. Those two albums were the big sellers, but the Dungeon Family had other, less commercial wins: Society Of Soul (a quintet that featured production trio Organized Noize, spoken word guru Big Rube and singer Esparonza Brown) released the stellar Brainchild the same year Goodie debuted and Organized had also helmed monster hits for TLC ('Waterfalls') and produced the entirety of the soundtrack for the hit action film Set It Off in 1996. The Atlanta collective had been doing their thing since the early 1990s, but OutKast had truly set things in motion back in 1994, with their first album southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, and their compadres Goodie Mob followed with Soul Food, their own classic 1995 debut. By 1998, the Dungeon Family was on a tremendous run.

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