face it! andre is great but very flawed.

thirstinhowlVIII said:

WORD WORD WORD!!!

I love Big Boi's flow. I like the waaay you movve!!!

you're both smokin' crack.

eleven said:

Thank you.

KatSkrizzle said:

BIG bowls of crack.


Put the pipe down, and walk away...

ButterscotchPimp said:

ROFLMAO!!!

ButterscotchPimp said

Well, maybe not BIG bowls of crack - Speakerboxxx is good stuff - but better than The Love Below? Crack.

Anxiety said:

yeah sittin tin that corner shakin 4 anutha HIT!


Anyway, i think this post was 2 just hype peeps up and make us mad. They know the truth though.

Big Boi is just a hip hop album collection of songs, which is not a bad cd at all, but Andre has a whole concept, and is musically mature.

paisleypark4 said:

I think you're right...and it worked (even though I had mine on reserve since last week, anyway! )

everyone that likes andres album more probably doesnt like 'real' hip hop.
[This message was edited Wed Sep 24 9:54:54 PDT 2003 by thirstinhowlVIII]

Crackity Crack laced with PCP. And I love real Hip-Hop!

thirstinhowlVIII said:

oh not sayin it aint "real" but i thought that it still wasnt betta than "Marshall Mathers LP" "Blueprint" or "3 Feet High & Rising"

other than both discs being one outkast release and hip hop, there is no real comparison. as always, it comes down to tastes. last night i was feeling the andre disc so strong, but this morning it was all about the big boi. they each do what they need to do.

i am diggin both, why you gotta be hatin? I was all about Andre yesterday. Today I am diggin on Big Boi. It's all good, no, its all great. I am glad to have both.

I'm looking forward to knowing both discs well enough that I can make my own single disc with faves from both mixed together...so far though, I love getting to know both albums as wholes - THIS is what a hit album should be like!

thirstinhowlVIII said:

This ain't even true. I love "real" hip hop whatever that is. I like both albums equally as well being a big OutKast fan. If you consider Andre's album to be a hip hop album you a looking at it in the wrong context. He has stated many times that this is NOT a hip hop album. Merely a collection of songs he has been working on for five or six years that didn't really fit with the OutKast image.

Andre co-wrote about half of the songs (particularly the best songs) on Big Boi's CD anyhow...

As for the topic, I love 13 out of 19 tracks on "The Love Below", while I only love about 8 or 9 out of 19 tracks on "Speakerboxxx". Both CDs are very good, but Andre's is a little more consistent, and on another level...

I love the song "Bowtie", it kinda sounds like what would happen if "Camille" sang on a song that the Gold-era NPG played on...

I still can't answer this question

WHY IS EVERYONe RIDING ANDRE'S D*CK???
It's not that serious. Some of us don't want to constantly listen to that headwrap, back packer s#$t all the time. As for all of those who dog out the album...do you really LISTEN or enjoy hip hop in general?
ANyone listen to Freddie Foxx on this website? IF you do, I stand corrected, if you don't know who he is...I rest my case

KatSkrizzle said:

This is in reference to the crack

KatSkrizzle said:

oh come on lighten up. It *isnt* that serious. And how constant is "that headwrap, back packer s#$t"? You act like it's all over the place.

Maybe some of us don't want to listen to that right thurrr crunk pole dancin airforce ones say uggghhh isht all the time. This is a refreshing break from that.

Maybe some of us don't want to listen to that right thurrr crunk pole dancin airforce ones say uggghhh isht all the time

Yup, uh huh. That would be me. . .

KatSkrizzle said:

in fairness to andre, his album isnt realy on that headwrap, incense kinda vibe.

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

I burn incense while listening to his album, but that's to cover up the smell of something else I got burning!

NuPwrSoul said:

I actually dislike all of that...obvously I'm not talking to Freddie Foxx or Bumpy Knuckles folks. Just beacuse I'm not into the back packer scene all the time it places me in the other category? I was talking about true hip hop heads, and I don't think I am among many on this board, otherwise you would've recognized one of the hardest and underated MC's, Freddy Foxx. I rest my case

KatSkrizzle said:

Hip hop is as diverse as its audience. Anyone who needs to dismiss people from "true hip hop" because they don't listen to an artist you or anyone else claims is the "authentic" stuff clearly doesn't get it.

NuPwrSoul said:[quote]

KatSkrizzle said:

Hip hop is as diverse as its audience. Anyone who needs to dismiss people from "true hip hop" because they don't listen to an artist you or anyone else claims is the "authentic" stuff clearly doesn't get it.[/

That did sound kind of elitist... My point is the folks who enjoy it on all ends may feel a bit more strongly about the subject at hand. Being that I work in it and am surrounded by it, watching folks make a few blanket statements calls for my reaction.

KatSkrizzle said:

Understood. My blanket statement was a response to yours re: backpackers.

Part of what has hurt hip hop in my opinion is the tendency among people to pigeonhole an artist or estrange them from the genre because they do not conform to someone's definition of what real or true hip hop is.

i just don't dig it that much after a few more listens. once the initial excitement wore off i kinda find it repetitive. and way too many "niggas" and "muthafuckas" for me. it gets old real quick...especially when you get your little kid in the studio saying it too.

and no, i'm not the moral police, its just my take on things.

imnotsayinthisjust2bnasty said:

I feel you completely. I thought I was the only one a tad bit disturbed by Big letting his kid swear on the mic. I'm sorry, but I'm just not for that and the shit is not cute.