After getting out of his tumultuous deal with LaFace/Jive and taking his movement over to Def Jam (interesting enough, to be back under L.A. Reid), the long awaited debut album from Big Boi of Outkast is finally seeing the light of day. This album comes packed with features, with the likes of everybody from The Dungeon Family to previous collaborator George Clinton. Production is handled mainly by Dungeon Family producers, with notable standouts from Andre 300, Lil Jon, Scott Storch & Salaam Remi.
Let’s get this out of the way now: Outside of production there is no OutKast collab on this album. He was suppose to be featured on two tracks on the album (Royal Flush & Lookin 4 Ya) but because of Jive Records (who clearly doesn’t too well with hip-hop groups for some reason?) not allowing Andre 3000 to be apart of the album or any future records, well…you’ll just have to add the leaked songs to the tracklist yourself.
The first official single, “Shutterbugg”, has a funky up-tempo beat along with Big Boi’s trademark flow that we have grown to love. With the help of two other southern emcees T.I & Khujo, Daddy Fat Sacks delivers on “Tangerine”, a strip-club banger packed with punch lines from T.I that will drop your jaw. The trio will have the ladies partying and wanting to drop their tangerines all summer long.
Coming off the success of Trunk Muzik is Interscope Records new artist Yelawolf, who blesses arguably the best track on the album, “You Ain’t No DJ”, a track made complete with a ferocious Andre 3000 backdrop. For those that are fans of classic ‘Kast should be satisfied with tracks like the Lil’ Jon & Jamie Foxx-assisted ”Hustle Blood”, which has Big Boi step back into the Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik/ATLiens mind frame. Other notable tracks on the album are “Follow us”, ”General Patton”, “Daddy Fat Sax”, “Turns me on”, and the Gucci Mane-assisted “Shine Blockas”.
While this should no longer be an issue after Speakerboxxx, if Big Boi still has any doubters that he can’t make a good album without Andre 3000, they should all feel very sadly mistaken, as Sir Lucious Left Foot does not disappoint. With that said, it also has us even more eager for another OutKast album in the future.
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