I fuckin hate people....

http://whoisoutkast.tumblr.com/

both of em turn 39 in a few months

you gon spend the rest of your life hating people

I get it, just never crossed my mind. A Dre solo song is Outkast's legacy to young white people. Geez lol

dropped, they would do shows and perform their older songs and get ZERO reaction. I even think their accidental selling out may have lead to their break(-up)....a lot of folks became fans for the Bombs over Baghdad, Ghetto Muzik, Hey ya type novelty songs, and weren't into their first three albums as much as they wanted them to be.

>for the Bombs over Baghdad, Ghetto Muzik, Hey ya type
>novelty songs

by making this statement, you are all-kinds-of saying OutKast brought some mess on themselves by making sellout "novelty" songs/music.

What kind of artists do you think that makes OutKast?

Would artists with real skills do that to themselves?

acts are skilled/talented enough to actually "sell out" and become bigger....and an even lesser number can actually do this AND keep most of their original fanbase.

Black Eyed Peas get the most shit for selling out, but they're a better Pop act than they were as a Rap act, meaning..compared to the late 90's Underground type Rap, they weren't Top Tier. Yet, in Pop, they were like Top 3, maybe even #1 for a while.

So with Outkast...them being able to make these novelty type hits, expand their base with them, and still keep their original fans happy with their material? That's an extremely difficult task to manage.

Now...what happened after may have been hard to really analyze. Maybe they realized they didn't wanna keep making those types of songs? Or even, maybe Dre wanted to, while Big Boi didn't? Even since then, Big Boi is on waaaay more "Trap" type Atlanta songs, which hints that he wanted to keep it more in that lane, although his own albums are still way more experimental than the average ATL rapper.

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I mean, obviously all those people are either really young, or not hip hop fans. If you wonder why someone is supposed to be a big deal, you can't just google it? Instead of saying dumb shit?

to know who the headliner of coachella is. as laughable as it is here, i think "who is outkast?" is a pretty fair question really.

B/c I know one song between Muse and Arcade Fire. And that's only because of Luther

they are the first (night) headliner. the hypothetical i said earlier applies to any headliner, there should be name and music recognition. muse have a string of mainstream hits from the last decade that is probably going to continue for years to come, and arcade fire have been steadily bubbling the last few years to the point where they can be a coachella headliner. what they lack in truly crossover hits they make up for in album of the year grammys (more recent than outkast's), #1 billboard debuts, sold out concerts at madison square garden, and high-profile collaborations and appearances on shows like SNL. as crazy as it may seem to some of us, outkast doesn't have or at least no longer has these things.

we're old. embrace it. in due time some of them will come to love Kast the way we came to love Trane, Miles, Al or Marvin

yup it's a beautiful thing

A 20 year old was born in 1993

Aquemini was 1998 - Kid is 5

Stankonia came out in 2000 - Kid is 7

Speakerboxx/Love Below came out in 2003 - Kid is 10

Idlewild was 2006 - Kid is 13

For a 20 year old who may not be that into music, its not ridiculous for them to not know who Outkast is besides "Oh yeah, they made Hey Ya!" that song came out when they were 10

If you ever heard the radio 2000-2005, you've heard outkast.

"Hey Ya", "So Fresh, So Clean", "Ms.Jackson", all dat. Everywhere.


Nigga, I went to a high school located in a small town in Tennessee. The graduating class under me's (class of 2013) theme song was "So Fresh, So Clean". It don't even matter if you don't like rap. Mofuckas know Outkast.


Fat teenage white chicks stay quoting Andre's verse on "Pink Matter", you know exactly which part I'm talking about.

Age ain't a factor in this, that website is just full of lost niggas.

Im a huge Kast fan (HUGE even) but it's definitely possible to not know their music

radio. I'll take simply not remembering Outkast's name, but they know their music.

were by age 4.

....when I was a kid; and I'm not talking about just the ones that got play around the house either. Plus that's without the aid of the internet. It's not like 'Kast was some obscure, low selling group prior to Stankonia. These dudes were always platinum artists. I can't buy the too young to remember excuse; especially with the internet being so prevalent nowadays.


Since 1976

music acts.

Large swatches of the public, especially under the age of 25, only digest what is handed to them at current. WHich is sad.

....I'm talking about artists/songs I wasn't actively persuing. I'm not saying these young folks should know 'Kasts whole catalog but to never have heard of a consistently platinum and better group is weird to me. I can see if it's an artist like Tech Nine who, despite sales, isn't well known to the masses because radio and video play tends to elude him. That's not the case with OutKast. They had both. Can't use the 'the youngsters more than likely didn't watch BET' angle either since MTV played their videos as well.



Since 1976

it speaks to the state of ignorance embraced by this generation and a type of people coachella attracts in particular. be glad we are wired differently.

A lot of parents dont play rap like that around their kids...and even if they do olaying outkast just seems random unless you were a huge fan.

hey ya and miss jackson are the songs that took them to the next level and that was towards the end of their career. I wouldnt expect for most kids to kno them..and if they do its more than likely gonna be because of those two song.

so there are plenty of youngins out there who don't know about outkast

22 aint that different from 20. i grew up on outkast.

we have more access to music from different eras than ever before today, southernplayalistic can be found just as easily as meek mill's new album

is it because of everything except the music?
im surprised ppl on here get hyped to go to it
outdoor shows suck and the coachella crowd looks obnoxious

apparently there are over 700 music festivals in the UK - even with our shitty weather!

Before going into older songs they said "for those of you that don't know this isn't our first album"...there was no laughter. That was over 13 years ago...the kids in this tumblr were in first grade then.

They really didn't crossover until Ms. Jackson...then Hey Ya popped off a few years later. That's all most of these kids know about. They are just young, if Kast kills it they may convert some new fans.

i know some of ya'll explained the timeline behind all this, but still.

damn.

is like Earth Wind and Fire headlining Lollapalooza in 1993.

i always say that Atlanta or the South in general is the Africa of modern american music, everything from the snap music crank dat foolishness to the hyper progressive space age vibe, to booty bass to the kuntry pimp shit to the trap rap cadence everyone is riding now. If Black music was the world, The South is Egypt and Andre & Big Boi were Pharaohs. So much came from them.

Aside from Scarface, it could be argued that Outkast singlehandedly got the rest of the country, at least the east coast, paying attention to Southern rappers first. It was Southernplayalisticcaddillacfunkymusic that had the country taking Southern rappers seriously, now see how the entire industry has not only taken note but followed suit. Outkast was the mainstream trajectory of Dungeon Family. The same way everyone everywhere knows what Wu-Tang's C.R.E.A.M. stands for, but might not be able to identify Masta Killa on a verse, anyone who appreciates music has been affected by Dungeon Family's influence and it's a bit tragic to see its own leading harbingers gone uncredited and forgotten.

but alas. white people. and the youth. and internet.

In the south these white kids know outkast. like even if they arent into rap like that they know they have more than "a couple songs."

Goes to show west coast whites really ain't on shit.

When I was at FAMU, a lot of kids born after 86 or so weren't really fans. I really had arguments with people who said Plies was better than Outkast.

He's the one that walked away.

And yes I sound salty.

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2864723&mesg_id=2864723&page=#2880422

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=12688301&mesg_id=12688301&page=#12689094

I don't know what could be attributed to auto-correct or not.