Product Description

This is the fourth album from Southern US hip hip duo Outkast. Dre and Andre 3000's eclectic mix of psychedelia, funk, and hip hop is ever present throughout 'Stankonia' with previous producers Organized Noize taking a backseat. The album includes the two singles which helped propel Outkast onto the world stage 'B.O.B.' and 'Ms. Jackson'.

Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Gasoline Dreams - Outkast & Khujo Goodie
3. I'm Cool
4. So Fresh So Clean
5. Ms Jackson
6. Snappin' And Trappin'
7. DF
8. Spaghetti Junction
9. Kim And Cookie
10. I'll Call B4 I Cum - Outkast & Gangsta Boo/Eco
11. BOB
12. Xplosion
13. Good Hair
14. We Love Deez Hoez
15. Humble Mumble - Outkast & Erykah Badu
16. Drinkin' Again
17. Horror
18. Red Velvet
19. Cruisin' In The ATL
20. Gangsta Shit - Outkast & Slimm Calhoun/C-Bone
21. Toilet Tisha
22. Slum Beautiful
23. Pre Nump
24. Stankonia (Stanklove)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29997 in Music
• Released on: 2000-11-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
With their fourth-album, Outkast invoke the rebel Southern spirit to full effect. Realising there is something rotten in the state of hip hop, the Atlantan local heroes have staked out their own territory, Stankonia, a Utopian republic representing the best of the Dirty South. As if in tribute to Funkadelic's America Eats Its Young , the album cover finds Dre and Big Boi staring out in front of a black and white stars and stripes. Inside they waste no time in revealing their radical agenda. "Don't everyone like the smell of gasoline?" hollers Andre 3000 on opener "Gasoline Dreams", as he sets fire to the constitution over a scorching electric guitar. The single "B.O.B." (aka "Bombs Over Baghdad") is Outkast's state-of-the-union address, a rousing gothic gospel number that advocates a "power music electric revival" as it approaches the speed of Reprazent's "Who Told You" and the epic feel of "Bohemian Rhapsody". On "Miss Jackson", they assume the role of exemplary southern Gentleman begging forgiveness from their hoochie's mama over a backing with spooky shades of Prince's "When Doves Cry". Elsewhere they eschew tradition (on tracks like "?", "Snappin & Trappin" and the B-Real-guesting "Xplosion") to invest their dirty funk with a distinctly avant-garde afro-sheen. Come election day, just sniff this stank to inhale freedom. --Chris Campion

Customer Reviews

Experiments
Without experimentation where would we be? It's not ATLiens but it's not supposed to be. They showed they could chill us out and take us to that higher place, now they've shown us they can make us move. I'd say its the perfect balance of social comment, funk, spiritualism and everything else that makes music great. The best track has got to be Humble Mumble (shame Erykah Badu only seems to not be annoying when she's backing someone up, another example being 'Baby You got Me - The Roots'.
All in all a shit hot album...Different...But hot.

OutKast: Stankonia
Not the best of albums. At first i enjoyed the typical 'Ms Jackson' and 'So Fresh and So Clean' but after a while it became anooying. Had to give the album a try becuase im a massive OutKast fan. I was dissapointed. Alot of the tracks are only bearly listenable but 'We Luv Deez Hoez' and 'Toilet Tisha' are OUTSTANDING songs and im glad i bought the album just to hear them songs. But otherwise its jus not OutKast, but a clear attempt to try and fit in with the crowds of mainstream idiots that the industry seems to be filling up with today. As much as i love OutKast i really cant get into this one!

brlliant
the only way this can't 5 stars is if you only compare it with other Outkast albums. It may not be the best Outkast but its still 5/5 relative to all other music.