Push on even when people doubt you, your biggest successes will come when you’re most purely yourself and, more specifically, it all started with Organized Noize. So the cover of Vibe magazines July issue read. OutKast’s last album was the soundtrack to the 2006 cinematic stinkbomb Idlewild, which was not the way way to go out. I don’t think you need me to spell out the lesson here, kiddos. Idlewild (CD, Album, Holographic Cover) BMG, LaFace Records, Zomba Label Group: BVCQ. OutKast - Idlewild Blue (Dontchu Worry Bout Me) 4:09 OutKast - Morris Brown ft. Fast forward a few years, they’ve sold over 25 million albums and are the only hip-hop act ever to win an Album of the Year GRAMMY, and it all started from this one song for a Christmas album. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2006 CD release of 'Idlewild' on Discogs. He green lights their 1994 debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, which establishes OutKast as a commercial and artistic force. Rated 13 in the best albums of 2000, and 649 of all-time album. Abstract Hip-Hop Album Sampler Alternative Hip-Hop Beatbox Break Beats Cassette CD Single Chicano Rap Christian Hip-Hop Comedy Rap Compilation Country Rap Crunk Demo East Coast Hip-Hop Electro Female Hip-Hop FLAC G-Funk Gangsta Rap. Released 31 October 2000 on LaFace (catalog no. He releases “Player's Ball” as a stand-alone single, none other than Puff Daddy directs the music video, and it explodes even further. OutKast Morris Brown / Idlewild Blue (Don’tchu Worry Bout Me) (2xCDS) (2006) (FLAC + 320 kbps) Posted. Reid realizes he might have something here. “Player's Ball” is an unexpected hit, radio DJs can't stop playing this one song on a Christmas album.
I'll give you a moment to sweep up your brain matter too.and now back to the story. So it’s technically a “Christmas” song, Andre starts the first verse off with “ It's beginning to look a lot like.what?” and later in verse works in “You thought I'd break my neck, to deck.the halls? Oh naw,” along with a few other small nods to the holiday season.Įditor’s Note: This is the point at which my head exploded. They decide, fuck it, they’re making the song they want to make. OutKast are not happy they feel like Reid’s going to kill their career before it even starts by making them look corny on a Christmas album.(Notice how they get so little respect on the album cover they’re buried in the bottom right with their picture cut off by text.) He tells them they need to contribute to the label’s 1993 album, A LaFace Family Christmas. Containing themes relating to the music industry. It was released on August 22, 2006, by LaFace Records and served as the soundtrack album to the duo's musical film of the same name, which was released that same month. Reid relents and signs them, but he’s still not sold, isn’t giving them much backing or support. Idlewild is the sixth and final studio album by American hip hop duo Outkast.Reid’s hesitant, he doesn’t know anything about hip-hop, won’t these “gangster” rappers ruin the clean R&B look of LaFace? Reid, at the time the head of the R&B label LaFace Records, to sign these two kids that go by OutKast. Production trio Organized Noize try to get L.A.We'd have reviewed the record, but were too hypnotised by its fancy cover to actually play it. I'm almost positive you'll all enjoy it for a long time."ĭiS previewed the film Idlewild here. Lots of good riffing and soloing from Rod and Allan, some tasty swing and Krautrock flourishes from Colin and Gareth, and some interesting lyrics, quite misplaced, in a good way. He had the following to say about its progress: Idlewild are currently working on the follow-up to 2005's Warnings/Promises LP. Maybe when our new LP comes out next February some unfamiliars will think we're some sort of OutKast tribute. "Not that it's likely Idlewild would play a show with Andre 3000 and Big Boi. Keep seeing posters for it and thinking I've forgotten about a concert. "Not sure what's up with this new OutKast album. The singer - whose solo album, My Secret Is My Silence, is out now - posted a message on Idlewild's website, here. But after spitting out four classic albums of mesmerizing poetry about growing up poor and brilliant in the sweaty ATL night, Big Boi and Andre. Roddy Woomble, singer with Scottish indie-rockers Idlewild, has told the band's fans that he's been confused by recent promotional posters for the OutKast album and movie, Idlewild. Once upon a time Outkast and their Atlanta affiliates in the Dungeon Family made some of the most innovative and affecting hip-hop to be heard on either side of the Mason-Dixon line.
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