Hip Hop 101 for Baby Boomers
Here I present a YouTube Review of the career of Atlanta duo, Outkast. Watch as enormous promise is fulfilled and then squandered over 12 years.
Ah the classic joints. Simple, soulful, technically brilliant. It's 1994 and André and Big Boi are young and hungry:
Getting a little ambitious here. Heiroglyphics and comic books. Very funkadelic. Maybe there's more to these guys than meets the eye:
This next one was the first Outkast video I ever saw on BET. They taught us all what it meant to be "rollin' down the strip on Vogues" years before Mike Jones and Paul Wall showed the white kids how to be "tippin' on four-fours, wrapped in four Vogues".
Jams are still kickin' but are we starting to get a little too artsy fartsy for fartsy sake?
What the hell happened? Green Indians?
Finally, they have the money and the prestige and the free time to do whatever the hell they want, and they come up with this?
Ah the classic joints. Simple, soulful, technically brilliant. It's 1994 and André and Big Boi are young and hungry:
Getting a little ambitious here. Heiroglyphics and comic books. Very funkadelic. Maybe there's more to these guys than meets the eye:
This next one was the first Outkast video I ever saw on BET. They taught us all what it meant to be "rollin' down the strip on Vogues" years before Mike Jones and Paul Wall showed the white kids how to be "tippin' on four-fours, wrapped in four Vogues".
Jams are still kickin' but are we starting to get a little too artsy fartsy for fartsy sake?
What the hell happened? Green Indians?
Finally, they have the money and the prestige and the free time to do whatever the hell they want, and they come up with this?
posted by E at 4:16 PM
1 Comments:
Nice work. I love "for fartsy's sake". The bling changes you...fame, money, video vixens, pimped rides...it's inevitable.
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