Word: outkast
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Undergraduate Council President Lee informs the council that hip-hop group OutKast will not perform at Harvard at a proposed May concert, despite the efforts of the Harvard Concert Commission. Lee cites the band’s recent increase in booking rate and the short notice for the concert date. A replacement concert is later cancelled as well...
...cool. In next year's sequel to the 1995 Mob flick Get Shorty, chill rapper ANDRE 3000 (real identity: Andre Benjamin) and Bill killer UMA THURMAN (real identity: foxy movie-star mama) supply the requisite edge. Andre, the sex-symbol half of the Grammy-winning hip-hop duo OutKast, plays Dabu "a trigger-happy parody of all rappers," he says. "He's a dude from the street, and he's kind of crazy. He'll be in a normal conversation just itching to shoot somebody." Thurman's Edie runs a record label that's in debt to Dabu...
...answering those students who ask, “How is the council going to make Harvard better?” Instead of vague generalities, the council should start making promises. More students will be inspired to pay $75 on next year’s termbill for an Outkast concert and weekend buses to New York than will be for a “better” Harvard. Sure, the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club endorsed the fee increase, but what do students with no club affiliations have to look forward...
Care to debate that last point? For nine weeks OutKast brought the nation together under a groove--two grooves, actually. From December 2003 to February 2004, Andre's Hey Ya! and Big Boi's The Way You Move were stacked together at the top of the pop charts--the first time since the Beatles' arrival 40 years ago that two songs by the same band had so dominated the country's consciousness. The Way You Move was an instant R.-and-B. classic; Hey Ya! was something greater. You don't expect universality from a song about the agony...
...OutKast's dominant season was no cultural blip. Andre and Big Boi have been stretching the boundaries of commercial music for a decade. From the initial weirdness of their songs about space aliens to B.O.B. (Bombs over Baghdad), their millennial drumand-bass gospel opus, they have proved that it's possible to be unusual, ambitious and immensely popular. In their own words, "We are/The coolest motherfunkers on the planet." --By Josh Tyrangiel