In November, Essentials is featuring Erykah Badu’s Mama’s Gun. It's a record that belongs in every collection, where it should be played, studied, and passed down to future generations like a talisman." “To me, that fact makes it maybe their most Essential record this was like a perfect storm moment of OutKast's internal push-pull between the avant-gardism of André and the Southern bedrock of Big Boi meeting their ability to warp rap into whatever they decided it was from moment to moment. "OutKast's Stankonia is a record that still feels far ahead of its time there hasn't been anything remotely like it in the 20 years since it was released,” said VMP Editorial Director Andrew Winistorfer. Recorded in their new Atlanta recording studio, the aptly named Stankonia Studios, OutKast busted boundaries and leaned full-force into risks on every account, from vocal styling to production, and everything in between, solidifying their influence and stance as hip-hop luminaries for far longer than we can probably ever imagine. OutKast tossed their untouchable and evolving strain of Southern rap alongside funk, New Wave, soul, psych rock, and gospel into a high-power Organized Noize and Earthtone III production blender and out came a mind-boggling record. Though the album turned 20 this year - the perfect occasion for an Essentials feature - the VMP team all agrees Stankonia’s been a no-brainer for as long as anyone could remember. The follow-up to 1998’s Aquemini, their 1-hour-and-13-minute 2000 masterpiece finds OutKast doing the absolute most and not missing a single step in the process.
In October, Essentials will feature the fourth studio album from game-changing, ground-breaking Atlanta duo OutKast, Stankonia. If you’re a member of VMP Essentials, or sign up now, here are the three records you’ll receive with a subscription in October, November, and December. Series: Vinyl Me, Please.Like we’ve done in the past, we’re giving you an advanced sneak peek at what’s coming in our VMP Essentials subscription for the next three months, not just what’s up next month.
Benjamin was blasting centuries ahead with his latest moniker, André 3000, an Afrofuturist prediction that the future was Black and dope as hell, and Big Boi was growing increasingly experimental in not only his lyrical delivery but his fashion sense, paralleling Benjamin's own eccentric flair for fashion. Never ones to shy away from the stank of imagined and social-historical realities, Stankonia is a demonstration of André Benjamin and Big Boi evolving their sound, their identities, and their art. They stayed true to what they did best and created something powerful on the fringes of mainstream pop culture's expectations of them as southerners and as rappers.īreaking new ground cleared from the debris of nostalgia, burned with their Chonkyfire, Stankonia challenged listeners to reconsider what it meant to be OutKasted in the wilderness of an unknown new world.
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Released on Halloween 2000, months after the initial Y2K scare that left people terrified of being throttled back into a period of darkness and technological paranoia, Stankonia took full advantage of the new millennium. When OutKast released its fourth studio album Stankonia, the pioneering duo out of Atlanta, Ga., was not new to this, but they remained true to the hip-hop thing.
It's on exclusive black and white galaxy vinyl. The 20th Anniversary edition of OutKast's landmark 2000 album, it is the Essentials Record of the Month for October 2020.