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OutKast Slaps EDM Group ATLiens With A Lawsuit, Claims The DUO Is Infringing Upon Song & Album Name
An EDM duo called ATLiens is legally feeling the wrath of OutKast for very obvious reasons. The post OutKast Slaps EDM Group ATLiens With A Lawsuit, Claims The DUO Is Infringing Upon Song & Album Name appeared first on Hip-Hop Wired.
10 Songs To Celebrate (Black) Independence This July 4th
These Hip-Hop hits honor the journey towards freedom and equality.
Watch Big Boi and Sleepy Brown’s Beach Party in ‘Do Ya Best’ Video
Longtime collaborators Big Boi and Sleepy Brown are the stars of their own South Beach-style party in a new video for “Do Ya Best,” a song drawn from the pair’s 2021 album Big Sleepover. In it, the Atlanta-reared artists sit front row at a swimsuit fashion show where Big Boi wears a Roman Empire headpiece. Brown sneaks backstage to tell some of the models to “do ya best,” but when he leaves, they fight and yell at one another. Outside of the show, Big Boi and Brown groove on the beach with guest rapper Scotty ATL in front of a city skyline. [embedded content][embedded content] Big Sleepover reunited Big Boi and Brown in the studio for the first time in several years. The latter is best-known for his guest appearance on Outkast’s “The Way You Move,” a 2004 No. 1 hit on The Billboard Hot 100...
Watch Big Boi and Sleepy Brown’s Beach Party in ‘Do Ya Best’ Video
Longtime collaborators Big Boi and Sleepy Brown are the stars of their own South Beach-style party in a new video for “Do Ya Best,” a song drawn from the pair’s 2021 album Big Sleepover. In it, the Atlanta-reared artists sit front row at a swimsuit fashion show where Big Boi wears a Roman Empire headpiece. Brown sneaks backstage to tell some of the models to “do ya best,” but when he leaves, they fight and yell at one another. Outside of the show, Big Boi and Brown groove on the beach with guest rapper Scotty ATL in front of a city skyline. [embedded content][embedded content] Big Sleepover reunited Big Boi and Brown in the studio for the first time in several years. The latter is best-known for his guest appearance on Outkast’s “The Way You Move,” a 2004 No. 1 hit on The Billboard Hot 100...
Finding Your ‘Big Boi’ House Ad Brings Hip-Hop Flavor To Real Estate
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Realtor.com / Youtube The real estate game got a little bit more flavor thanks to one company utilizing rap icon Big Boi as their latest commercial spokesperson. Realtor.com, the website that is dedicated to providing detailed real estate listings for properties from condos to homes, is touting new features to their search engine and devoting their latest ad campaign celebrating Black homeownership with the help of one half of the legendary Hip-Hop group Outkast, Big Boi. The “Our First Big Boi House” campaign launched in January with two television commercials featuring the Atlanta rapper admiring a young Black couple’s first home as they unpack. Big Boi celebrated the news through his Twitter account, showing off the first commercial with the caption “B...
The 90 Greatest Albums of the ’90s
This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high.” We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this issue. Which is understandable. Pronouncing the 90 greatest albums of the ’90s is a somewhat presumptuous thing to do. When you’re measuring the music this decade is offering to history—the sounds we partied with, copulated to, fought about, and wept over—everyone has an opinion. That ours should be more valid than yours is debatable. But hey—it’s our magazine. What, then, you ask, constitutes “greatest”? Don’t even start. Suffice it to say that, after much heated discussion and countless veiled insults, it came down to the factors of both remarkable artistry and cultural shock value. Sometimes a record’s knock-you-off-your-Skechers impa...
The Reissue Section: Fall 2021
Vinyl sales have gone up 94% this year, according to a report by the RIAA. That helps the massive flux of reissues that dotted the fall. But that’s not the good news. What really makes this column hum remains the variety of choice titles that are released on CD, and sales of that sturdy little plastic silver disc went up 44% in the first half of 2021 as well. And with the slew of choice archival titles that dropped like so many acorns across the autumn landscape, both formats will certainly be seeing a significant bump in those numbers as the holiday season closes in. Now let’s get into it. Here are the best reissues of Fall 2021. Violent FemmesWhy Do Birds Sing? Expanded Edition (Craft Recordings) For a lot of kids who came of age in the 1980s, the first real taste of college rock came co...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Josh Chesler, SPIN Deputy Editor
Name Josh Chesler, SPIN Deputy Editor Best known for Hanging out in tattoo shops, being the bearded guy on various TV shows and Twitch streams, and only interviewing bands I like as SPIN’s Deputy Editor. Current city Long Beach, CA Really want to be in Any place where I can turn my email off. Catch me in the South of France eating an endless buffet of fancy cheeses instead of my usual routine of responding to hundreds of emails. Excited about That week between Christmas and New Year’s where we all just kind of float around and pretend like we exist without actually doing anything. My current music collection has a lot of 2000s post-hardcore, punk rock, and third-wave emo. I might’ve outlived Myspace, but a lot of my favorite music didn’t. And a little bit of ...
The 40 Greatest Music Video Artists
Music videos are the perfect bastard child of art and commerce, even more than pop music itself. A promotional visual accompaniment to a popular song doesn’t need a coherent narrative (although on rare occasions, they do). It just needs to suit the song, sell the record, and possibly make the artist look cool. But since the launch of MTV 40 years ago this week, a select few recording artists have helped raise music videos to an art form — sometimes by accident, and sometimes by carefully curating the work of brilliant directors like Mark Romanek, Hype Williams, and Spike Jonze. Here are 40 artists from the last four decades that helped video kill the radio star. 40. Lil Kim [embedded content] Although earlier female MCs like Salt-N-Pepa and Queen Latifah used music videos to help launch th...
Outkast to Release 25th Anniversary Expanded Version of ATLiens
Outkast’s ATLiens turns 25 this year and Andre 3000 and Big Boi have big plans to honor its silver anniversary. The album will receive an expanded digital and vinyl editions, HD digital singles, limited edition anniversary merch and more. The deluxe edition will feature the original album in its entirety, along with a full-length collection of 14 previously unreleased instrumental tracks. The newly-expanded edition of ATLiens will also be mixed in Hi-Res 24bit sound. ATLiens’ single bundles include the album’s singles– “Elevators (Me & You),” “ATLiens” and “Jazzy Belle.” The Atlanta duo made strides into mainstream success with this project. Themes ranging from happenings in urban communities to extraterrestrial life are found throughout, placed between production by Organized Noize an...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Daniel Kohn, SPIN’s Editorial Director
Name Daniel Kohn Best known for Taking a photo of Prince Harry and Afrika Bambaataa backstage at Wireless Festival in 2009 (and SPIN’s Editorial Director). Current city San Fernando Valley. Really want to be in Tokyo – name a cooler city, I dare you. Excited about Being able to go to live shows again. My current music collection has a lot of Out of print CDs and extremely rare vinyl pressings. Been on a huge singer-songwriter kick as well. And a little bit of Live albums (actually, a lot of). Listening to a live album — even not in its purest of form — gives you the true essence of what an artist sounds like without the bells and whistles of the studio. Don’t judge me for Loving Van Hagar. If loving them is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. And yes, I was made fun of a lot during elementary a...
