Aquemini

Sony BMG

Production

Aquemini is the title of the third album by the rap group OutKast U.S. and was released in 1998. It reached # 2 on the Billboard charts and was praised by critics for its originality high.

About the Album

Like its predecessors Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik and ATLiens Aquemini is characterized by its enormous for a rap album musicality that is produced by a large team of studio musicians, the instrumentation of the previous albums is complemented by drums, percussion and horns. The songs include, among other elements from the genres Country ( Rosa Parks ), Electro ( synthesizer), Dub ( SpottieOttieDopaliscious ), Jazz ( Liberation ) and rock ( Chonkyfire ).

The album's title is derived from the Zodiac Big Bois ( Aquarius ) and André 3000 's ( Gemini). As singles Rosa Parks ( place on the Billboard Hot 100 55) were and Da Art of Story Tellin ' (Part 1) coupled with a verse from unrepresented on the album version of Slick Rick. Rosa Parks was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group category in 1999.

Shaping

The cover of the album is like that, drawn by ATLiens and includes one for OutKast at the time typical symbolism with ao a UFO, z.T. extraterrestrial -looking women, a Cadillac, the logo of the group, a Zodiak and the two zodiac signs Aquarius and Gemini. On the back you can see the two characters, as a symbol for the title of the album, combines the midst of a large Zodiac. The CD contains, like all of the first four OutKast albums, the image of a naked woman painted by André 3000th The name of the image is purchasable for $ 65 "Lady Lava". The booklet contains many pictures and " Thank You's " all lyrics.

Title list

  • Produced by Donny Mathis and OutKast
  • Produced by Organized Noize
  • Produced by OutKast
  • Produced by Organied Noize
  • Produced by OutKast
  • Produced by OutKast
  • Produced by OutKast
  • Produced by Organized Noize
  • Produced by Mr. DJ
  • Produced by Mr. DJ
  • Produced by Organized Noize
  • Produced by OutKast
  • Produced by Mr. DJ
  • Produced by OutKast
  • Produced by OutKast

Reviews

Aquemini is praised by critics since its release than any other hip- hop album. As one of the few albums of the late 1990s it received from the U.S. hip-hop magazine The Source for the coveted top rating " 5 Mics ". The German hip hop magazine Juice rated Aquemini along with six other albums for the 100th issue later with " 6 crowns ", the highest rating. Also the best possible rating got the album, among others, the Los Angeles Times, the All Music Guide, Entertainment Weekly and the music magazine Q.

"Even Compared To Their already excellent and forward-looking catalog, OutKast 's sprawling third album, Aquemini, was a stroke of brilliance. (...) [ Dre and Big Boi 's] grace flows some of the richest and most inventive hip -hop tracks of the decade. (...) What's most impressive is the way everything comes together to justify the full- CD running time, something few hip -hop epics of this scope ever accomplish. (...) Aquemini fulfills all its ambitions, covering more than enough territory to qualify it as a virtuosic masterpiece, and a landmark hip- hop album of the late '90s. "

The Rolling Stone led Aquemini 2003 to place 500 of its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In a list published in 1999, two music magazines of the best "Rock & Rap " albums Aquemini came in at number 8

Eric Clapton expressed in the course of publication of Aquemini as a big fan of the album.

Information about the songs

  • The songs 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16 contain subsequent Interludes. Two of them play in a record store, the Hawks a CD of the fictional rap group "Pimp Trick Gangsta Click". The group's name has become a household word for all the clichés of rap -care groups.
  • The verses of André in Return of the G are directed at the people who keep him belonging to a homosexual, a drug addict or a cult because of his expressionistic style.
  • In Slump is heard Andrés then year old son Seven Sirius.
  • West Savannah was, like Big Boi told in the previous Interlude, produced in 1994. This can be confirmed by the fact that the song at the beginning of the OutKast videos Benz Or Beamer from 1995 can be heard.
  • On Slump West Savannah and André is not heard.
  • Liberation is the only song ever, in the Big Boi (seriously ) sings.
  • At the end of Chonkyfire the source Arward Awards 1995 in New York City can be heard, when OutKast after they were awarded a prize as one of the first Southern groups, were booed by the live audience.

Swell

Members: André 3000 | Big Boi

Album: Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994 ) | ATLiens (1996 ) | Aquemini (1998 ) | Stankonia (2000 ) | Big Boi and Dre Present ... OutKast (2001 ) | Speakerboxxx / The Love Below (2003 ) | Idlewild (2006)

  • OutKast
  • Album ( Hip- Hop )
  • Album 1998
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