Words by Landon A.
I can remember being 10 and getting down to “Rosa Parks” at the roller rink, gripping a bag of black cherry Warheads in my left hand with a suicide in my right. We all know how we feel about these two records. Whether you were in high school and ATLiens capped off your ride to school everyday or you just discovered Aquemini while digging through a friends records, point is most folks can remember where they were when they heard just one of the gems from either of these albums.
To me, the allure of ATLiens and Aquemini is the production just as much as it is the needle point lyricism from Big and Dre. Organized Noize (graces my list of top 10 producers) stepped their game up exponentially from Southernplayalistic, providing earthy funk-hop jams custom fitted for Big and Dre. “SpottieOttieDopaliscious” proves to be one of the funkiest jams on this and any other planet, calling for Sleepy Browns glacial crooning and Big and Dre’s patented spoken word, while beats like “Wheelz of Steel” and “Two Dope Boyz” allow room for lyrical ferocity from any MC who thinks they can take them on.
In the spirit of instrumental LP’s like Petestrumentals, ATLiens and Aquemini’s instrumentals provide a funky soundscape that you can listen to from roota to toota.
Download – Outkast – Atliens (Instrumentals)
Download — Outkast – Aquemini (Instrumentals)
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Aquemini was the first album I ever bought. And I haven’t look back since
Appreciate that link Gotty™
Anyone tried and LIKE the Kindle?
I copped one as I purchase books often but really do not like having to go out and get books from stores (no real bookstores are conveniently close any longer. Imagine that… they closed nearly all of them a couple of years back) and waiting for an online purchase is just so inconvenient.
My verdict?
I prefer an actual book printed on old trees to anything else.
Guess I am just old.
(I was already in college when ATLiens dropped)
Prefer CD’s because of the sound quality and ability to read credits, etc.
Which also reminds me… anyone DL iTunes 9? It is supposed to include liner notes. How is it?
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2009/09/introducing-itunes-9
^ iTunes 9? downloaded it. I utilize little to none of the features. I just press play, lol. Liner notes? I wouldn’t know how that would work, since I download a lot of my music, lol…
Free 99 versions Teef? lol
Thanks though. I am hesitant to upgrade but we shall see. I have to move into 2009 at some point!
BTW – Just pulled my ATLiens CD out of the rack and I forgot how dope the artwork and booklet were.
Crazy!
See, this is what you miss with digital downloads!
I’m buying CDs by Mayer Hawthorne & Nicolay tomorrow. I dunno if the 3rd CD I get should be the new M.O.P. or that KRS-ONE & Buckshot.
damn landon, 10 years old at the roller rink? i had my own apartment and was in college when atliens dropped. and i had just graduated when aquemini came out. geez, i feel old.
I need this as a zip please, Outkast is the dopest all time
ahh yes. 1998. best day of my young life as a junior in high school. went to school for a test in 2nd period. aced that. skipped out on the rest of the day to sex this chick who looked like a younger layla kayleigh. got the freshest best slice at sbarro. and picked up aquemini, a tribe called quest’s the love movement and jay’s hard knock life. all released on the same day. all 3 are hot classics to me. best day at that time in my life.
So I wanted an alternate album cover for blueprint 3… so i went to the site which we do not speak of. Hilarity ensues. check the _ _ _ _ _ _ forum….
^ LOL! I dunno why that story made me laugh, but it did
Aquemini instros >>> ATLiens instros
Any Outkast album > ATLiens instros
ATLiens Comic Book > any other OutKast album artwork.
On their next album, I think they owe me a second issue.
U aint gon post the comic book tho!
*fap fap fap*
what? yeah i’ll take these.
I been re-listening to the old outkast albums for the pass week.. wish they drop some new material
i remember vividly how EVERYONE was talking about Elevatorz when it dropped.
Aquemini is one of my favorite albums of all time.
who else has dropped three classic albums back to back to back?
southernplayalistic—>atliens—>aquemini
these albums have been the topics of discussion amongst my guys and me since they dropped. all three you could put in the deck, hit play, and be good to go.
yeah, I had to step back at that 10yr old at the roller rink myself. For Aquemini, I’d finally got my license that day (at 18). For Aquemini yeah I do remember the trio of releases that had dropped. I was out of work at the time and had dropped off my wife at work downtown, just knew I was goin right to the music store; stopped to get some coffee and locked my damn keys in the car. AAA had to come out, I was stranded out in the middle of a busy street in the middle of downtown. Nightmare, but I remember being blown away when I finally got it in the deck.
first was ATLiens, yall know what i meant.
I think ATLiens has the best CD artwork ever.
forgot to add one part to my earlier story. the next 2 weeks my art teacher was playin my aquemini for the class every day. good times
lust for life didn’t make the EP? i thought that song and houstatlantavegas were perfect complements to one another, i would listen to just the beginning of the mixtape all the time
giat dayum. when landon said he was 10 at the roller rink, shit. kinda felt aged. haha. Aquemini dropped when i was in 13th grade smoking weed everyday in the dorm…i remember me and my roommate making a CD run for niggas who didnt have cars that day. it dropped the same day as Brand Nubians Foundation, JayZ Vol.2 Hard Knock Life, ATCQ The Love Movement and Gangsta Boo’s Inquiring Minds…September 29, 1998 was a dope ass day for music.
Aquemini vs. ATLiens is the question i come back to again and again. I’ll never have a favorite, both are too dope.
@ maurice: i think i wrote a piece about that once upon a time.
There’s a big disparity in ages around here lol
ROYIS THE MUTHAFUCKIN BOY IN THIS BITCH!!!!
Damn, I was like 15. But that is neither here nor there. I remember when I first heard spottieottiedopaliscious! That was when I made the decision to purchase this album. And I am glad I did. Went to Sam Goody and it was a wrap.
And Mr. Garland, that was back when BET was putting us on to good music. I used to love “Where Dem Dollaz At.” And the Love Movement album ended up being purchased about seven years later.
But all in all, Aquemini > that ATLiens. Which isn’t saying much. Because they are both dope ass albums in my mind….and heart!
Does anyone have the 50th Law, 50′s new book on pdf?
My boy dubbed a copy of the (I think) Murder was the case soundtrack when I was in 5th grade. He still had room on the tape so he used Southerplayalistik to fill out the rest. Introtoletyoukno blew me away. I never looked back. From that point on Wu/Kast > everything else. Atliens is their best album. I listened to that in my headphones and felt high one night. I didn’t smoke any weed or do any drugs. The music really made me feel high. Nothing else has ever done that. I just read that old post from last year and I’m kinda ashamed to have grown up in the same city as TC with how adement he is in saying that Aqumenia is better. “Child please is what that gets”
i was a senior in high school for this (tape) wow
saw them at st andrews when this dropped reminds me how many copies of southernplayalistic we went through back then too
cosign the three album in a row shit too shit is untouchable
@ TC
Thank you sir for the link!
@ Everyone else (including Andre and Big Boi)… look at this thread! Made me feel good just reading all of the stories associated with some classic music.
Amazing! And I am glad everyone shared.
@ pat
I got that SAME high from Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.
I remember copping that CD wondering first… why it took SO long for LaFace to drop the album after “Player’s Ball!” I had the single on cassette and used to bump it everyday on the way to school (I was in high school at the time).
(Speaking of which… anyone remember the original, “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” line? Yeah, it was originally a single on the “A Laface Family Christmas, 1993″ album)
Anyway… I also remember putting that album in my discman and wondering how Organized Noize made live instrumentation sound so dope. I was in touch with Rico back then so I knew the story… but I remember thinking, “These two dudes are this lyrical… and they are from the South?!?!”
I listened to that album from beginning to end just as Pat… high without any type of drug in my system.
Perfect analogy to their music.
And yes, back to back to BACK classic albums.
Genius.
They changed southern Hip-Hop forever.
Haha.
This is great.
MY Outkast story?
It was Christmas 2003, and i had just gotten my first 3 hip hop albums with parental advisory stickers on them from my parents. (Never really listened to music before high school outside of the radio, too busy with sports year round)
The Black Album
Chicken & Beer
Speakerboxxx & The Love Below
Chicken & Beer didn’t sit right with my musically sheltered 13 year old ears and The Black Album was cool but too far advanced for my unresponsive Nelly-corrupted lyrical comprehension.
Speakerboxxx & Love Below however, was the soundtrack to my freshman year in high school. If i didn’t get that album, i probably wouldn’t be here today posting a comment on a Hip-Hop centric website, let alone writing for it.
ATLiens
If anyone is interested in the samples for these two CDs, peep em here:
http://holdthethrone.com/2009/06/15/atliens-the-samples/
http://holdthethrone.com/2009/06/20/outkast-aquemini-the-samples/
Peace!
The word ‘classic’ is thrown about all too quickly, easily and incorrectly in music, ESPECIALLY hip hop music.
But these two albums are definitive classics.
Damn… I commented but didn’t leave my OutKast story
I got my first Kast album, Southernplayalistic…, from my dad via Columbiahouse (yeah… remember them? lol). It was the one CD he let me pick when he got like 15 free albums for signing on. I was hooked from the first listen. Truth be told, the only reason I wanted the album was so that I would have a version of “Player’s Ball” that wasn’t dubbed (yeah… remember that too cassette lovers?) from the radio.
I have every OutKast album… including Class of 3000: Music Volume One Soundtrack. I’m a bit of a stan.
@Dom
Hell yeah. Thanks. Didn’t have either of those sets.
If you’re not an Outkast stan, you’re doing something wrong.
I still have that maxi single and that Laface Christmas album……Mom’s even used to love “Playaz Ball”….LOL!
@Gotty
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The Aquemini album is my favorite Outkast album.
It’s the only I’ve ever made a effort to have autographed. I drove from Athens (UGA) to Atlanta at 12am to get the album ‘early’ and autographed, people were trying to stop me because we had a Chemistry exam at 8am…but I couldn’t pass up that opportunity. On the drive home looking at Dre’s autograph all I was thinking “what the fuck does 3000 mean” LOL.
But I like the instrumentals on ATLiens; Faith Evans even sampled ‘Mainstream’ nuff said.
just want to drop in and say it’s posts like these that continue to make this the best music “blog” on the internet.
In addition to the tribe, outkast, jayz, and brand nubian albums that came out that day in 1998 – black star was released that day as well. holy shit, what an amazing release day.
i’m all for ATLiens. such a change-up from southernplayalistic, but just as dope. that album blew my mind, and i think convinced everyone that outkast were true artists. the way they updated and changed their style each album, yet still made amazing music, is pretty much unparalleled in rap music…
Ahhhh…. I remember like it was a few months ago. LOL! Slaving like hell to put a mini comic book together while attending Art Institute of Atlanta full time. Forget the fact that I had a little art skills, I was hyped about the opportunity to represent the ‘A’ but I still, to this day, feel like I did not give it my all.
The idea of combining a comic book with an album/CD was hot and I couldn’t wait to contribute. I had no idea that the album (along with the artwork) would become a cultural icon legacy. Shout outs to our homey, Big Rube for coming up with the elaborate, 25+ page, script which we had to “hack-n-slash” to a mere 16 pages. Additional shouts to D.L. Warfield, Nigel Sawyer, and Antonio Reid for selecting me for the project. More shouts to Frank Gomez for the b/w cover illustration and Andre 3 stacks for being real and so involved in its development. Shouts to you too, Big Boi for passing me up in the art department like I was some kinda low class sucka as I slaved in that LaFace sweat shop. Interpreting, penciling, inking, and coloring all that shyt while failing 2 classes in art school due to your album.
It’s all good… Group hug y’all! I’m glad you cats made it thus far. You’re still my heroes. Thanks for the opportunity!!
- VROB
……can you update the deadlinks…. pppplllease ;)