Benjamin had a few rapped verses on the album, including on the first single " Mighty O", but mostly stuck with singing, as he had on The Love Below. The film depicts life in a 1930s setting and the album takes influences from the music of that era, particularly blues. In 2006, Outkast released their sixth album as a group, Idlewild, which also served as a soundtrack to the group's musical film Idlewild. Rolling Stone compared Benjamin to "an indie-rock Little Richard" on "Hey Ya!" and later declared the international hit one of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Unlike Speakerboxxx, The Love Below is an exercise in funk, jazz, and alternative music, featuring vocals from Benjamin which are mostly sung instead of rapped. "Prototype", the album's fourth single and video (Benjamin's third), was released shortly after. Though Big Boi's half of the album, Speakerboxxx, spawned the number-one hit " The Way You Move" and the relatively successful "Ghetto Musick", Benjamin's The Love Below garnered the most attention from mainstream audiences, with the popular singles " Hey Ya!" and " Roses" and their music videos receiving heavy radio and television airtime. In 2003, Outkast released Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, a double album that highlighted the differences in the musical styles of the group's two members. In 2002, André 3000 was referenced on the song " Till I Collapse" by Eminem, who considered him one of the best rappers ever. Later that year, Benjamin participated in the Dungeon Family group album, which saw some prominent Atlanta-based hip-hop groups combine into a supergroup. OutKast, which contained three new tracks, one of which, " The Whole World", won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. In 2002, Outkast released a greatest hits album, Big Boi and Dre Present. The song was written in the aftermath of Benjamin's breakup with Badu and was a fictionalized account of the disintegration of their relationship.
Jackson", which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Dre and his new persona after his split with Badu) and increased the group's crossover appeal with the single " Ms. Outkast's fourth album, Stankonia (2000), introduced Benjamin's new alias André 3000 (largely to distinguish himself from Dr. With the duo's portrayal of themselves as out-of-place extraterrestrials in ATLiens, Benjamin's lyrics, in particular, were noted for their surreal, space-age tinge: "the funkadelic, futuristic, and seemingly unfamiliar, weird, or eccentric persona projected by André 3000 creates the chance to transcend the more pronounced characterizations of gangstas and pimps so regularly assumed by black men rap artists." During the recording of these albums, Benjamin took up guitar, painting, and a relationship with singer Erykah Badu. Outkast's style and lyricism again received commercial and critical acclaim. The albums were also influenced by a return to traditional black music genres, with funk being the most prominent example. On their next two albums, ATLiens (1996) and Aquemini (1998), Outkast experimented with their sound by adding elements of trip hop, soul, and jungle. Buoyed by the success of the single "Player's Ball", the album went platinum by the end of the year and Outkast was named Best New Rap Group of the Year at the 1995 Source Awards. Shortly after graduating, Outkast was signed to the Atlanta-based LaFace label and released their debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, in 1994. Benjamin and Patton teamed up to form Outkast. Awarded a GRAMMY® for Album of the Year in 2004, this was one of OutKast's (and pop music's) finest hours.In high school, Benjamin (who was then performing as André) met Antwan " Big Boi" Patton. In mashing up so many sounds so successfully, the album closed the door on hip-hop's boom-bap '90s period, ushering in an era of sonic cross-pollination between hip-hop and pop that persisted into the next decade.
Selling more than 10 million copies, Speakerboxx/The Love Below was OutKast's least classically hip-hop album to date it was an ambitious amalgam of funk, soul, R&B, disco, and rock (try classifying the snarky kiss-off "Roses"). Two of OutKast's most enduring and innovative tunes are here: Big Boi's "The Way You Move" (a '70s funk throwback in the style of Cameo and Chic) and "Hey Ya" (André 3000's kaleidoscopic, decade-defining rave-up). It was essentially two solo albums: André's The Love Below and Big Boi's Speakerboxx, packaged as a double record. While it showed the growing divide between André 3000 and Big Boi (and presaged their long hiatus), OutKast's fifth studio effort was a highwater mark for the group all the same.
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