bigted Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 (edited) This year's finishing strong with a lot of dope releases! Outkast Finally Ready To Drop Their New LP, Big Boi Says Idlewild due in stores on December 6. by James Montgomery When you're half of the most successful rap duo of all time, you can get pretty much anything you want. So, for example, if you were Big Boi and you wanted to announce that a new Outkast album would be hitting stores on, say, December 6, well, then it's a pretty safe bet that it'll come out on December 6. Hypothetically speaking, of course. "Me and Dre got the new Outkast album coming out December 6. It's called Idlewild, and the first single is called 'Idlewild Blues,' " Boi said. "I'm dead serious, we're cocked and loaded. The movie's done too. And it's crazy." OK then. Idlewild — the soundtrack to the long-delayed film of the same name, which still has no release date — will be out December 6, Outkast's label, LaFace Records, confirmed. In past interviews, Big Boi had hinted that the new 'Kast album would be seeing the light of day sometime this year, but until now there was no set-in-stone release date (see "Big Boi Busts Out New Label, Divulges Details About Outkast Film"). But not everything Big Boi says comes true. He told MTV News that "Idlewild Blues" would be available for digital download sometime this month, but according to LaFace, the first single off the album has yet to be determined, and thus nothing has been released digitally. While the "Idlewild" film had previously been described at the duo's attempt to emulate Prince's big-screen success (see "Outkast's Manager Says Movie, LP Will Be Their 'Purple Rain' "), Big Boi said there's little of the Purple One's velveteen touch in the film — but there is a whole lot of Giorgio Armani. "The movie is dope," he said. "It's like an Outkast album but on film, which will make the fans happy. It's like two stories going at the same time. I've seen two rough cuts, and it's outstanding. We've got Ving Rhames, Ben Vereen, Cicely Tyson, Terrence Howard, Patti LaBelle. We would show up every day suited and booted thanks to Mr. Giorgio Armani. Tailor-made to fit." He's also got one final word on yet another Outkast-related project: Big Boi Presents Got Purp? Volume 2, the first release on his new Purple Ribbon label. The album, due November 22 showcases a group of artists Big is dubbing his "Purple Ribbon All-Stars," including Sleepy Brown, Bubba Sparxxx and Killer Mike. The disc's first single, which he said was called "Kryptonite," is already hitting radio — only it's not called "Kryptonite" anymore (guess Big Boi doesn't always get everything he wants). "The first single is called 'I'm on It.' It was originally called 'Kryptonite,' " he laughed. "But for some reason, MTV wouldn't let us say it, so we had to change it. What can you do, y'know?" Edited October 14, 2005 by bigted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerkot Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Yeah I read this about yesterday and I got more exited than when I saw Angelina Jolie nude. **** MTV tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Hero1 Posted October 14, 2005 Admin Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 I think a track like "players ball" is so much better than there recent stuff.. :word: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JumpinJack AJ Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Yeah, OutKast's 1st album is better than all their other stuff put 2gether. However, most of their stuff is good and always pushing the limit...which is important in these days of cookie-cutter, disposable groups in Rap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesSyde Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 yeah Outkast's first album was straight raw '94. from there on it's expanded into more creativeness, but i don't necessarily like that. i like the raw gritty stuff, just straight to the point. i will put this on the Christmas list tho, no doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerkot Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 I like Aquemini and Stankonia most actually, especially Aquemini with Rosa Parks, Aquemini and Da Art of Storytelling part 1 & 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigted Posted October 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 (edited) Yeah Outkast's 1st album ranks among the all-time great albums, well it always seems to be the case with every great artist, they make a huge impact when they come out and the rest of what they do gets compared to that. In all fairness Will hasn't really made anything bigger than "Summertime" either, it's better than anything Will has done put together too, it's just about creative and staying in the game but your legacy's set with what you do early in your career, on that note I was dissapointed with their last album as much as I was with "Born To Reign", it's cool to experiment but they went too far that it sounded corny, especially Andre 3000, hopefully they go back to that raw sound they had in the mid-90s or at least sound like "Stankonia". Edited October 15, 2005 by bigted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevTastic Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 Speakerboox/The Love Below still however was great stuff, just hard to digest as an album because of its raw size. Aint Not Thang But A Chicken Wing (Classic) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigted Posted October 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 It was a below average Outkast album to me but it was refreshing to hear something good on the radio for a change at that time and a step above everything else then, every brother and mother owns that album it seems, over 10 million sold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-o-e Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 I got the speakerboxxx/love below the day it came out. I even have the Ms Jackson vid on my fone. Outkast are great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigted Posted November 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/articl...t_id=1001479354 Outkast's 'Idlewild' Bumped To Next Year November 14, 2005, 3:50 PM ET Gail Mitchell, N.Y. and Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. Originally planned for release earlier this year and then bumped to December, the soundtrack to the OutKast film "Idlewild" has now been removed from LaFace/Jive's 2005 schedule. Group member Big Boi said over the weekend at the Vibe Awards that it would appear sometime during the first quarter of 2006, but a label spokesperson says there is no confirmed date. "We're trying to pick the single right now. It's all about a gut instinct," Big Boi said at the Vibe Awards. The change in the soundtrack's release date has apparently had a corresponding affect on the roll-out of the movie, which HBO Films was eyeing for early January. A company spokesperson says a new date has yet to be nailed down. "Idlewild" is set in the 1930s, and Big Boi says that period in history has rubbed off on some of the music. "In our own little way," he told Billboard.com earlier this summer. "Just with the Ragtime feel. It's hip-hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years. Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD. It was like, where do we go from here?" Big Boi stressed, "This is an OutKast album. It isn't like a soundtrack where we go get this person or that person." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerkot Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Annoying, really been looking forward to hear it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willreign Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 I wanna hear that CD sooo baddd... tey r great artists... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turntable Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 I stil don`t get it.Is this a real Album or that Soundtrack stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lerkot Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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