It isn’t difficult to come across the usual Outkast fan that
sites their ’98 album Aquemini as
their masterpiece, and throughout all of the futuristic neo-Southern hip-hop
sounds emerging from the established soul style, Andre and Big Boi’s spoken
word 7 minute narrative "Spottieottiedopalicious" exhibited their capacity to
delve into untraditional ventures to pioneer the genre swiftly moving toward
its millennium evolution.
The casual liquid fluxuations over light drum immediately
sets “Summer Madness” atmospheres to the track, and the recurring horn
interludes add some kind of strange indescribably momentary tempo flip that gives
“Spottieottiedopalicious” a phantasmagoric quality to match the
pair’s lethargic narratives. Andre and Big Boi speak it differently in this
one, using fiction to relay realities of the lower class Atlanta community in a
soulful fashion without directly speaking it, and Pat Brown's added verse assures the the echoing vocal limbos don't stray the record too far into the unusual. It’s a classic that stands in its
own zone of the Southern hip-hop abstract, and showed us the more experimental avenues
that Outkast was taking.
Here’s the track, give it a listen, and check out Aquemini.
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