Stankonia

I did not think "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" was Outkast's best album. 2000's "Stankonia" was nominated in the same category four years prior and it should have won, but Outkast's 2004 victory was like a make-up Grammy -- kind of like "The Aviator" being nominated for best picture at this year's Oscars.

The Grammys Get a Clue 2007

The Dirty South style of Hip-Hop had always been prevalent in the rap world, but with "Stankonia" the style was both refined and expanded - breaking it down to its purest elements and then sonically blowing those elements up into a hip-hop stew of experimentation.

Starpulse Entertainment News 2009

That was from 2000's "Stankonia," which came out at the beginning of a new decade.

Freep.com - RSS 2009

That was from 2000's "Stankonia," which came out at the beginning of a new decade.

Freep.com - RSS 2009

But it was the rapid-fire - and unfortunately prophetic - "B.O.B.", with its maniacal gospel chorus refrain of "bombs over Baghdad," that elevates "Stankonia" to all-time-great status.

naplesnews.com Stories 2009

This Outcast clip, from the extremely well sold and very mainstream Stankonia album, has always seemed a bit degrading for young ears.

Do sexually "degrading" song lyrics lure teenagers into bad sex? Ann Althouse 2009

Just a friendly observation & note I dislike the music in question, myself ... it's OutKast, not Outcast--and isn't Stankonia so, well, almost last century, anyway?

Do sexually "degrading" song lyrics lure teenagers into bad sex? Ann Althouse 2009

If OutKast were right when they rapped "You're only as funky as your last cut" on their 1998 hit "Rosa Parks," then the eccentric Atlanta duo have hit 10 on the freak meter with their new creation, "Stankonia."

(Outkast) 2008

They both loved such quirky groups as De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest -- the hippie wing of hip-hop -- as well as funk forefathers George Clinton and Bootsy Collins, and Outkast has re-created and updated that sound in the four retro-experimental albums it has released since 1994, most notably 2000's Grammy-winning "Stankonia."

Twins Beneath The Skin 2007

Seersucker slacks, saddle shoes, a crisp white jacket -- why has Andre (Andre 3000) Benjamin, the eccentric half of the rap duo OutKast, worn this to drop into their pot-smoke-permeated, pit-bull-friendly Stankonia studios in Atlanta?

Can OutKast's Marriage Be Saved? 2007