OutKast - Stankonia (25th Anniversary) (2000/2025)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 765 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 261 MB
1:52:18 | Hip Hop, Funk, Soul, Gangsta, P.Funk, Crunk, Conscious, Pop Rap | Label: LaFace - Legacy
Where to begin with OutKast's boundlessly funky, futuristic magnum opus? Sure, plenty of heads prefer its downhome predecessor Aquemini, but that's the good kid, m.A.A.d city to Stankonia's To Pimp a Butterfly. That is, one might let its freak flag completely loose, but the greatness of either isn't mutually exclusive. OutKast were already showing a willingness to get weird on ATLiens' remarkably sparse, nearly trip-hop hit "Elevators (Me & You)," and by 1998's even bigger "Rosa Parks," they were experimenting with harmonica and acoustic guitar. And those regal horns on "SpottieOttieDopalicious?" Beyoncé sampled them not once (the "Flawless" remix) but twice (Lemonade's climactic "All Night"). Those advances were nearly conventional compared to the whole libraries of genre and sound that Stankonia exploded into utopian widescreen; "B.O.B." alone set André 3000 and Big Boi's twistiest double-speed flows against drum 'n' bass, swampy guitar soloing and massed choirs chanting slogans like "power music, electric revival."