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In 2016 it’s hard to believe that hip-hop had already been proclaimed dead by 1998. It was the same complaint then that it is now. Whilst East Coast boom bap wasn’t exactly a “distant memory,” it was still considered the genre’s zenith, never to be obtained again after the death of the Notorious B.I.G. in 1997. In 1995, at the height of the East Coast, West Coast war, the Source Awards were held in the birthplace of rap, New York City. A homegrown crowd of hip-hop purists booed Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre and their hip-hop bastardisation, G-Funk. If Snoop and Dre were ignorami, then Outkast, hailing from Atlanta, Georgia were outright hillbillies. Even in 1995 the Dirty South had a reputation for producing the lowest common denominator of rap; when Andre 3000 took to the stage to accept the award for ‘Best New Rap Group’ he made his presence known: “the South has something to say.” Those words didn’t just herald a new combatant in America’s regional hip-hop war. It heralded the arrival of Outkast.

In 1998, Outkast released their third, and greatest album, Aquemini, an

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Aquemini

1998 studio album by Outkast

Aquemini () is the third studio album by the American hip hop duo Outkast. It was released on September 29, 1998, by LaFace Records and Arista Records. The title is a portmanteau of the two performers' Zodiac signs: Aquarius (Big Boi) and Gemini (André 3000), which is indicative of the album's recurring theme of the differing personalities of the two members. The group recorded the majority of the album in Bobby Brown's Bosstown Recording Studios and Doppler Studios, both in Atlanta, Georgia.

Released as the follow-up to the duo's commercially successful 1996 album ATLiens, Aquemini expands on the previous record's outer space-inspired compositions by incorporating live instrumentation and drawing on 1970s funk, southern soul, gospel, country, psychedelic rock, and other influences. The album reflected a greater level of creative freedom for the group, which led to the members self-producing the majority of the tracks and employing a large number of session musicians who filtered in and out of the studio throughout its record

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OutKast

OutKast, an Atlanta-based hip-hop duo consisting of Andre Benjamin (known as “Dre” and “Andre 3000”) and Antwan Patton (known as “Big Boi”), are widely hailed as one of the most influential and original hip-hop acts to enter the national stage in the late 1990s. The recipient of multiple Grammy Awards, OutKast released eight albums between 1994 and 2008.

Benjamin, who grew up in Decatur, and Patton, a native of Savannah, met as tenth graders at Tri-Cities High School in the East Point area of Atlanta. Their mutual interest in rapping led them to form a group, and they soon began a relationship with Organized Noize, a production team headed by Rico Wade, which operated out of an unfinished basement studio known as “the Dungeon.” Through Wade and the so-called Dungeon Family, the rappers met LaFace Records founders and producers Antonio “L.A.” Reid and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, who signed the two to a contract when they were both seventeen years old.

Their first single, the Christmas song “