Word: outkast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...winner. Grade: B UGK – “Int’l Players Anthem” The first verse is the best minute of music released this year. Andre 3000 delivers a tightwire flow over a beautiful Motown sample, and you remember that Outkast is very, very good. Then the drums kick in and the track turns into boilerplate, albeit well-executed, Southern rap, and you remember that this isn’t actually an Outkast song. The cognitive dissonance between sweet music and rough lyrics in the last three quarters is mildly disturbing, but start the song...
...riveting and obviously emotional performance. The two later returned for “Tell Me Why,” the second-to-last dance of the night. It was unclear why, unlike Bhangra which also performed two pieces, they appeared in two segments instead of one.“OutKast Medley,” the piece by the dancers from the Harvard TAPS, was well-intentioned but fell short. While the popular music from OutKast is conducive to certain types of dance, the loud hip-hop undermined the rhythm of the dancers. As a result, there was a constant struggle...
...Outkast should go shake it at the Baker Library...
...matter how innovative or trite they may be.Hating the movies may have been cool in the ’90s, but it’s significant that “Hollywood Divorce” is on the soundtrack of a Universal Studios creation. At this point, rappers like Outkast have assimilated into the mainstream film world such that a “fight the power” mentality no longer makes sense. Instead, Andre ends the song by deciding that Hollywood’s constant appropriation of countercultural forms is ultimately tolerable; he and his hip-hop comrades will just...
Patrick (Sleepy) Brown has been making other people famous for more than a decade. He has co-written dozens of hits (including Waterfalls for TLC) and spiced up a handful of others (that's him singing the chorus of OutKast's The Way You Move) with his super-smooth vocals. On Mr. Brown, out Sept. 26, Sleepy finally gets his chance to shine with an R&B album that has more than just bedroom eyes and the requisite guest spots (Big Boi, Pharrell). It also has lots of humor and a refreshingly non-exploitative view of women...