Two years later Outkast released ATLeins.ĪTLiens contains some of the more challenging lyrical content in mid-90’s hip hop. Even at their young age, Outkast already had their own sound and style. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik is a surprisingly mature album considering the duo were still teenagers, especially the fact that much of the album’s lyrics show a social concern, not something you would expect from high schoolers raised on gangster rap.
They also mostly used live musicians instead of sampling.
They gave a different perspective on the black experience than most of what was being heard in rap at the time, with lyrics that spoke from the southern point of view, mixing in regionally specific slang. Their first album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik was released in 1994. While still in their teens, their first single “Player’s Ball” was released in late 1993 and hit #1 on the Billboard Rap Chart. Their first recording was rapping on the remixed version of “ What About Your Friends?” by TLC.īenjamin and Patton would now be known as Outkast and go by their nicknames Dre and Big Boi. Wade had begun producing for TLC and through their connection with Wade, Benjamin and Patton were signed to LaFace Records before the end of 1992, the first hip hop artists signed to the label. Not only did the duo that would become Outkast walk the halls of Tri-Cities High, but so did the members of TLC and Xscape as well as Khujo and Big Gipp who would team with T-Mo and Cee Lo Green to form Goodie Mob.īenjamin and Patton began hanging out with their Goodie Mob friends and the studio of Rico Wade, who along with Sleepy Brown and Ray Murray were known as the Organized Noize production company.
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