Music: The Day I Went To The Church Of Stankonia

"We are OutKast. If you don't know us by now you never will. We just turned 20 years old, but we feel like we turned 17 just yesterday.

Sometimes there are moments that cause you forget everything around you,because you've been waiting so long for it. I literally texted my friend Mikey when the line up for Wireless 2014 was announced.My favourite group in this thing called music, Outkast were coming to the UK. Andre 3000 and Big Boi have provided timeless classics that have stood the test of time and you could see why live. They opened up with the party starter "B.O.B", with it's hypnotizing fast paced drum beats. 

"We don't make music for black people,white people, gay people, straight people or flippety-flop people who haven't decided yet. Were the words of deacon Andre 3000 upon orchestrating the ceremony to a jam packed field of people. There was rain (UK summer folks) and we didn't give a damn, because Outkast had the whole crowd in the palm of their hands. As expected many people went crazy went the Outkast equivalent of the feel good anthems of The Notorious B.I.G's "Juicy" and Pharrell's "Happy", "Hey Ya" was performed but the level of interest never dropped once.

Mikey and myself had great view for the performance and we saw the dynamic duo provide us with a timeless live experience. When songs such as "Elevators","Roses","Skew It On Bar-B","So Fresh And So Clean" and "Ms.Jackson" just made me feel like it was the first time  I've heard these magical records.

Music has always been something for the masses, without any prejudice to any race or creed. When I looked around me for a split few seconds, I was reminded that music is for the people. They have some uber-cool fans, whether they became fans from "The Whole World" or "Hey Ya" to those who've followed the ATLiens since their birth in 1994.

Personally I'd have an Outkast concert every two years and wouldn't ever get tired of seeing them. I've seen Jay Z multiple times and never get bored. Jay Z and Kanye West - Watch The Throne tour was and experience and Outkast will join that as an experience I'm happy I saw with my eyes and not via youtube clips.

Music: Outkast Reunion Coachella 2014

The most anticipated reunion of the best rap group ever (just my opinion) took place late last night at Coachella. 

Can't wait for Kast to come to the UK, cause unlike the hipster crowd at Coachella, we going to get turnt up. Ladies and Gentlemen...... Welcome to Stankonia, I'll see you at the top!!

P.S. please don't stand next to me when they drop B.O.B. cause I'll act a fool ha.

Music: Hip Hop NEEDS this (and me)

April 26th 1994 a rap duo called Outkast dropped what is now labelled a classic album called Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. I'm a huge 'Kast supporter, I still regard them as the best rap group in Hip Hop (I know about Wu-Tang x Clipse x Bone Thugs x Dipset etc......). 

Four albums later (do we count Idlewild as an album or soundtrack?) and we haven't had any Outkast since 2006.

In all honesty that's kind of f**ked up the game not having any Outkast albums to look forward to. Plus Big Boi has released two solo albums since, Dre is doing his movie thing.

The more vocal of the two Big Boi has stated he is always ready to do the Outkast thing when Dre is ready, but Dre counters that with "You liked Outkast back then, that don't me you'd like us now".

With Dre always dropping these let's just enjoy the run Outkast had whenever asked, I was pretty happy to just listen to the old albums on my phone (benefit of having 32gb) then the internet was flooded with these via Big Boi's instagram...... 

April 26th 2014 will mark the 20th anniversary of Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik,and the rumoured Coachella performance to mark this.  

Am I happy? 

Best Rap verse of all time is..............

So one of my favorite artist Ye took to Twitter three days ago to open up a debate, this tweet sent Twitter into overload like when a certain Mr.Carter did a recent Q&A:

Kanye West - New Slaves

Kanye West - New Slaves (2nd verse)

I throw these Maybach keys

I wear my heart on the sleeve

I know that we the new slaves

I see the blood on the leaves

I see the blood on the leaves

I see the blood on the leaves

I know that we the new slaves

I see the blood on the leaves

They throwing hate at me

Want me to stay at ease

F*** you and your corporation

Y’all n****s can’t control me

I know that we the new slaves

I know that we the new slaves

I’m ’bout to wild the f*** out

I’m going Bobby Boucher

I know that p***y ain’t free

You niggas p***y, ain’t me

Y’all throwing contracts at me

You know that n****s can’t read

Throw ‘em some Maybach keys

F*** it, c’est la vie

I know that we the new slaves

Y’all niggas can’t f** with me

Y’all niggas can’t f*** with Ye

Y’all niggas can’t f*** with Ye

I’ll move my family out the country

So you can’t see where I stay

So go and grab the reporters

So I can smash their recorders

See they’ll confuse us with some bulls***

Like the New World Order

Meanwhile the DEA

Teamed up with the CCA

They tryna lock n****s up

They tryna make new slaves

See that’s that privately owned prisons

Get your piece today

They prolly all in the Hamptons

Braggin’ ’bout what they made

F*** you and your Hampton house

I’ll f*** your Hampton spouse

Came on her Hampton blouse

And in her Hampton mouth

Y’all ’bout to turn s*** up

I’m ’bout to tear s*** down

I’m ’bout to air s*** out

Now what the f*** they gon’ say now?

That's the best verse ever in Ye's eyes, ears, mind etc..... He did put in the tweet "I open the debate" Below are just a few, there are like a million more and I'm aware of that. But I've just gone for some of the top of my head that have and will stand the test of time.

Jay Z x Rihanna x Kanye West - Run This Town

BP3's lead single Run This Town was highly anticipated, Jay kept it in the family with Ri Ri on the hook and Ye with a verse. Ye's verse though............. 

Kanye West – Run This Town

It's crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow

To everybody on your dick, no homo

I bought my whole family whips, no Volvos

Next time I'm in church, please no photos

Police escorts, everybody passports

This the life that everybody ask for

This a fast life, we are on a crash course

What you think I rap for, to push a fucking Rav-4?

But I know that if I stay stunting

All these girls only gon' want one thing

I could spend my whole life "Good Will Hunting"

Only good gon' come is as good when I'm coming

She got a ass that'll swallow up a g-string

And up top, uh, two bee stings

And I'm beasting off the riesling

And my nigga just made it out the precinct

We give a damn about the drama that you do bring

I'm just tryin' to change the color on your mood ring

Reebok, baby, you need to drop some new things

Have you ever had shoes without shoe strings?

What's that 'Ye? Baby, these heels

Is that a May, what, baby, these wheels

You trippin' when you ain't sippin', have a refill

You feelin' like you runnin', huh, now you know how we feel

Puff Daddy ft Busta Rhymes and The Notorious B.I.G. - Victory

Biggie had an upset stomach and just shitted all over this track from Puff's 7 million copy debut album.

The Notorious B.I.G. - Victory

In The Commision, you ask for permission to hit em

He don't like me, him and wild wifey was wit em

You heard of us, the murderers, most shady

Been on the low lately, the feds hate me

The son of *Satan*, they say my killin's too blatant

You hesitatin, I'm in your mama crib waitin

Duct tapin, your fam destiny

lays in my hands, gat lays in my waist

Francis, M to the iz-H phenominal

Gun rest under your vest by the abdominal

Rhyme a few bars so I can buy a few cars

And I kick a few flows so I can pimp a few hoes

Excellence is my presence, never tense

Never hesitant, leave a nigga bent real quick

Real sick, brawl nights, I perform like Mike

Anyone -- Tyson, Jordan, Jackson

action, pack guns, ridiculous

And I'm, quick to bust, if my ends you touch

Kids or girl you touch, in this world I clutch

Two auto-matoes, used to call me fatso

Now you call me Castro, my rap flows

militant, y'all faggots ain't killin shit

Ooops Cristal keep spillin shit, you overdid it homes

You in the danger zone, you shouldn't be alone

Hold hands and say it like me

The most shady, Frankie baby, fantastic

Graphic, tryin to make dough, like Jurassic

Park did quick to spark kids who start shit

See me, only me

The Underboss of this holocaust

Truly yours, Frank White

Jay Z ft Eminem - Renegade 

Ok Em's 1st verse on this track. That's all folks

Eminem - Renegade

Since I'm in a position to talk to these kids and they listen

I ain't no politician, but I'll kick it with 'em a minute

Cause, see, they call me a menace, and if the shoe fits I'll wear it

But if it don't, then y'all'll swallow the truth, grin and bear it

Now who's the king of these rude, ludicrous, lucrative lyrics?

Who could inherit the title, put the youth in hysterics?

Using his music to steer it, sharing his views and his merits

But there's a huge interference: they're saying you shouldn't hear it

Maybe it's hatred I spew, maybe it's food for the spirit

Maybe it's beautiful music I made for you to just cherish

But I'm debated, disputed, hated and viewed in America

As a motherfuckin' drug addict - like you didn't experiment?

Now now, that's when you start to stare at who's in the mirror

And see yourself as a kid again, and you get embarrassed

And I got nothing to do but make you look stupid as parents

You fuckin' do-gooders, too bad you couldn't do good at marriage

And do you have any clue what I had to do to get here? I don't

Think you do, so stay tuned and keep your ears glued to the stereo

Cause here we go, he's Jigga, Jigga

And I'm the sinister Mr. Kiss-My-Ass, it's just the

The Notorious B.I.G. - Who Shot Ya

Frank White's 1st verse!!

The Notorious B.I.G. - Who Shot Ya

Who shot ya?

Seperate the weak from the ob-solete

Hard to creep them Brooklyn streets

It's on nigga, fuck all that bickering beef

I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek

Your heartbeat soun like Sasquatch feet

Thundering, shaking the concrete

Finish it, stop, when I foil the plot

Neighbors call the cops said they heard mad shots

Saw me in the drop, three and a quarter

Slaughter, electrical tape around your daughter

Old school new school need to learn though

I burn baby burn like Disco Inferno

Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo

Peel more skins than Idaho potato

Niggaz know, the lyrics molestin is takin place

Fuckin with B.I.G. it ain't safe

I make your skin chafe, rashes on the masses

Bumps and bruises, blunts and Landcruisers

Big Poppa smash fools, bash fools

Niggaz mad because I know that Cash Rules

Everything Around Me, two glock nines

Any motherfucker whispering about mines

And I'm, Crooklyn's finest

You rewind this, Bad Boy's behind this

Mobb Deep - Shook Ones pt.II

Prodigy just drops that sh*t from the jump.

Prodigy - Shook Ones pt.II

I got you stuck off the realness, we be the infamous

you heard of us

official Queensbridge murderers

the Mobb comes equipped with warfare, beware

of my crime family who got nuff shots to share

for all of those who wanna profile and pose

rock you in your face, stab your brain wit' your nosebone

you all alone in these streets, cousin

every man for theirself in this land we be gunnin'

and keep them shook crews runnin'

like they supposed to

they come around but they never come close to

I can see it inside your face

you're in the wrong place

cowards like you just get they're whole body laced up

with bullet holes and such

speak the wrong words man and you will get touched

you can put your whole army against my team and

I guarantee you it'll be your very last time breathin'

your simple words just don't move me

you're minor, we're major

you all up in the game and don't deserve to be a player

don't make me have to call your name out

your crew is featherweight

my gunshots'll make you levitate

I'm only nineteen but my mind is old

and when the things get for real my warm heart turns cold

another nigga deceased, another story gets told

it ain't nothin' really

hey, yo dun spark the Phillie

so I can get my mind off these yellowbacked niggas

why they still alive I don't know, go figure

meanwhile back in Queens the realness is foundation

if I die I couldn't choose a better location

when the slugs penetrate you feel a burning sensation

getting closer to God in a tight situation

now, take these words home and think it through

or the next rhyme I write might be about you

Cassidy x Lil Wayne x Fabolous - 6 Minutes Of Death

At 1:40 Cassidy introduces Fab, this is in my opinion still one of the best verses Fab has laced in his career.

Fabolous - 6 Minutes Of Death 

Your goddamn right I'm feeling myself

A chauffeur no sir, I'm wheeling myself

Looking for a chick chilling for self

So I can show her the suicides and talk her into killing herself

I'm having problems dealing with wealth

But you wouldn't understand it, until you get a million yourself

You niggaz must've got a deal for your health

Your cd is frozen food, it just chills on the shelf

I spend big, at any time I can start splurging

The twin cigs open chests like a heart surgeon

And I'm buttoned up, I'm just a blue collar crook

But I keep a stack thick as few college books

I got a new polished look

And twenty dime bitches, to show y'all niggaz how my two dollars look

The boy's got at least six digits on

So the guns gotta be at least midget long

The money, is like ten bridges long

I throw bread around just to turn pigeons on

I got some good smoke just for puffers

The two grand twenty's make the hustlers suffer

Plus it's fluffer, than a cotton ball

I've gotten calls wanting me to put the pot in malls

But nowadays you can't put it past 'em

I got a Dan Marino arm, I'm bout to throw some bullets past 'em

And the niggaz in the hood keep quoting my lines

I don't jump ship I keep floating in mine

Long as I keep toting I'm fine

I'mma have these dick sucking niggaz deep-throating the nine

I jumped in the English ship, Benzed whip

It's Terminator 2 chrome the engines dip

I'm reading scripts no, not the penmanship (no)

The box-office shit (yeah), I box off this bitch (yeah)

Jessica Alba, Kirsten Dunst

And still make a mil' off the first of months

These dudes be the first to front

'Til they family and friends is in limos, they in hearse in front

I'm in the top position, I can make you a proposition

I'm in the hard top waiting on the drop edition

To hell with the patience

I'mma send a nigga down under like Australia vacations

Nas ft Jadakiss x Ludacris - Made You Look (remix)

In my humble opinion one of the best remixes ever to be unleashed in the world off hip hop. Nas verse is nice, Luda's verse is loco BUT Jadakiss verse "I helped the game, it ain't help me, I'm top five dead or alive and that's just off one LP" 

Jadakiss - Made You Look (remix)

Yo ain't nothin but trouble God

When I kick in the door with D-Block, Bravehearts and the Double R

Don't make me let the machine off

This is methadone music that you can lean off

"Made You Look," the remix with me up on it

I copped your shit, now I break weed up on it

And everything is real I see

Like my niggaz that been home but they only got a jail ID

I helped the game, it ain't help me

I'm top five dead or alive and that's just off one LP

And, I still buzz, they feel cuz

Cause they know the flow's Ill just like Will was

I'm just tryin to make sure that my sons wealthy

Out of shape but I make sure that my guns healthy

I'm a ape, you can't stand 'Kiss

Comin through the hood in a Aston Vanguish the color of dandruff

They said we jumped him, I just let the gun snuff him

Copped P then turbo'd soon as they uncuff him

This goes out to all of your mans

Why put you in the verse when I can put in a coroner van, D-Block.

Outkast ft Raekwon - Royal Flush 

Andre 3000 - Royal Flush

Styles will change. They say change is dang-erous

As a King standing on the terrace

While his partner pointing up at the riflemen

Coward shooter, never know when your life will end

Then live like there ain't no 'morrow

And if one come then this the motto

Now I put message in bottle

You go to the nearest beach and open your car door

And walk to the place where the sea meets the land

Yeah, it's easier to run the street than walk in the sand

Hey, I'm talking young man. As if chalk in my hand

I will take y'all little ass to school

It's cool when the kids call me Sunny, the hood calls me Stacks

The B's call me honey, Hollywood calls me back

Crack and I have a lot in common

We both come up in the 80's and we keep that bass pumping

That's a nega-tive comparison, embarrassing

Unfortunate that if you come up fortunate the streets consider you lame

Ha, I thought the name of the game was to have a better life

I guess it ain't. What a shame

I don't slang. Never slung but I'm one with the slum

That has a name well fitting, plenty cheese getting

No wonder why they call it the trap, so watch your tail

And I'm not kidding, the rats and mice will give advice

They say, "you can paint and draw, get out of here

Go show them that we're more than slanging raw."

That's when I broke into my Big Rube impression

And I tried to enlighten but that night I learned a lesson

That the morals that you think you got go out the window

When all the other kids are fresh and they got new Nintendo Wiis

And your child is down on her knees praying hard up to God

For a Whopper with cheese

Do you B) hit the street hard with a flair

Or do you A) go to school for heating and air?

Dare make an honest living or make a crooked killing

Or do a bit of both until you're holding on a million?

Brilliant. You got one foot in, one foot out

You put your left foot back in and then you shake it all about

You do the hokey pokey til you turn your life around

That's what it's all about. 3000 out

Jay Z - Can I LIve

In reagrds to sales Hard Knock Life vol.2 is still the album that brought Jay to the masses. But Jay himself says in his career top three albums are 1.Reasonable Doubt 2.Blueprint 3. The Black Album. This track is one of my favourite Jay tracks ever. So I had to choose this verse.

Jay Z - Can I Live

While I'm watchin every nigga watchin me closely

my shit is butter for the bread they wanna toast me

I keep my head, both of them where they supposed to be

Hoes'll get you sidetracked then clap from closed feet

I don't sleep, I'm tired, I feel wired like codeine, these days

a brother gotta admire from four fiends away

My pain wish it was quick to see, from sellin 'caine

til brains was fried to a fricaisse, can't lie

At the time it never bothered me, at the bar

gettin my thug on properly, my squad and me

lack of respect for authority, laughin hard

Happy to be escapin poverty, however brief

I know this game got valleys and peaks, expectation

for dips, four percent pertation we stack chips, hardly

The youth I used to be, soon to see a mill'in

No more, Big Willie my game has grown prefer you call me William

Illin for revenues, Rayful Edmonds like

Channel 7 news, round seven jewels, hand gettin the mic

Forgettin all I ever knew, convenient amnesia

I suggest you call my lawyer, I know the procedure

Lock my body can't trap my mind, easily

explain why we adapt to crime

I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it

Live at the main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it

Presidential suites my resedential for the weekend

Confidentially speakin in codes since I sense you peekin

The NSX rental, don't be fooled my game is mental

We both out of town dog, what you tryin to get into?

Viva, Las Vegas, see ya, later at the crap tables

meet me by the one that starts a G up

This way no fraud Willie's present gambling they re-up

And we can have a pleasant time, sippin margaritas

Ge-ge-geyeahhh, can I live?

Can I live?

2Pac x Outlawz - Hail Mary

Pac wasn't playing around!

2Pac - Hail Mary

I ain't a killer but don't push me

Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to getting pussy

Picture paragraphs unloaded, wise words being quoted

Peeped the weakness in the rap game and sewed it

Bow down, pray to God hoping that he's listening

Seeing niggas coming for me, to my diamonds, when they glistening

Now pay attention, rest in peace father

I'm a ghost in these killing fields

Hail Mary catch me if I go, let's go deep inside

the solitary mind of a madman who screams in the dark

Evil lurks, enemies, see me flee

Activate my hate, let it break, to the flame

Set trip, empty out my clip, never stop to aim

Some say the game is all corrupted, fucked in this shit

Stuck, niggas is lucky if we bust out this shit, plus

mama told me never stop until I bust a nut

Fuck the world if they can't adjust

It's just as well, Hail Mary

Noreaga x Nature x Big Pun x Cam'Ron x Jadakiss x Styles P - Banned From TV

Everyone delivers!!

Main Source ft Nas - Live At The BBQ

Young Esco!

Nas - Live At The BBQ

Street's disciple, my raps are trifle

I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle

Stampede the stage, I leave the microphone split

Play Mr. Tuffy while I'm on some Pretty Tone shit

Verbal assassin, my architect pleases

When I was twelve, I went to hell for snuffin Jesus

Nasty Nas is a rebel to America

Police murderer, I'm causin hysteria

My troops roll up with a strange force

I was trapped in a cage and let out by the Main Source

Swimmin in women like a lifeguard

Put on a bulletproof nigga I strike hard

Kidnap the President's wife without a plan

And hangin niggaz like the Ku Klux Klan

I melt mics till the sound waves over

Before steppin to me you'd rather step to Jehovah

Slammin MC's on cement

Cause verbally, I'm iller than a AIDS patient

I move swift and uplift

your mind shoot the gift when I riff in rhyme

Rappin sniper, speakin real words

My thoughts react, like Steven Spielberg's

Poetry attacks, paragraphs punch hard

My brain is insane, I'm out to lunch God

Science is dropped, my raps are toxic

My voicebox locks and excels like a rocket

Interview: Big Boi on Outkast 20 year anniversary

Man c'mon gentlemen PLEASE make this happen. Rap and Hip Hop still need you!! I've said it once and I'll say it again, in my humble opinion Outkast are the best rap group ever!

Video: Big Boi Brings Out A$AP Rocky

Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors is a SIIIIIIIIIIIICK album!!! Objectum Sexuality is my track of 2013. Album has alot of hot features In The A ft T.I. & Ludacris is a straight PROBLEM! Check out Big Boi bring out A$AP Rocky to perform Lines

Audio: Big Boi ft KiD CuDi - She Hates Me

December 11th Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors drops #Showtime

Interview: Andre 3000

Interview: Big Boi "Outkast can happen"

I rock to The Diplomats, Wu-Tang, Clipse, S.A.S. etc....
But the best hip hop group ever in my eyes is Outkast
This interview therefore makes me happy