We discuss Andre’s evolution as a rapper, the deep Atlanta love throughout the record, and where this album ranks in OutKast’s discography. It entered the Billboard 200 at number two after selling over 530,000 copies in its first week. OutKast becomes the newest member of the Triple Crown club here on Heat Rocks and we’re talking to professor/scholar Regina Bradley about the duo’s smothered, covered, diced, and topped LP, Aquemini. Outkasts third album Aquemini was released on September 29, 1998. During his speech, Andre 3000 famously declared “The South got something to say.” Nowadays, ATL has a solid place in the history of rap, but OutKast had to fight for a seat at the table. In 1995, OutKast was booed by an angry crowd at the Source Awards after they won Best New Artist.
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