What is your opinion on James Blake sampling you on his track Every Day I Ran?
It's a cool song.
My question is, after doing so much in your career, what else is left that you still want to accomplish?
that's a good question. Actually I want to walk on and play for the Falcons, but I hurt my leg. I just want to keep making the coldest music on the planet.
as an elder statesman of sorts of the ATL scene, how do you feel about the new crop of kids making more melodic left-of-center stuff like you (and Andre) did for so many years? guys like Future (well since he's Rico Wade's cousin it makes sense I guess haha), Rich Homie Quan, etc...bridging the gap between all the hard trap stuff, the rich R&B history of the city, Kast, and like your solo stuff where you've reached out and brought in a lot of really forward thinking singers and producers?
I embrace all music and generations. I respect all music. Everybody is not going to sound the same and you gotta give people a chance to grow.
You're smellcome.
Could you tell us a funny/interesting/motivating anecdote from your career?
The first time I met Tupac, we were opening for him in Ohio and he was pulling up to the hotel in a limousine, and he jumped through the partition of his limo and threw the car in park because the driver wouldn't stop because he wanted to holler at me and Dre. He almost tore up the transmission in the limo. Real life.
Big Boi, what was it like working with killer mike and el p? They seem like some of the coolest dudes in hip hop
It was real cool man. Killer is like my little brother and El P is a sole producer and it was a really chill environment. We just camped out at a studio in Brooklyn and made it happen.
Who is your favorite artist you haven't gotten to work with yet?
Kate Bush. Her and Bob Marley are tied for first place.
ATLiens and Aquemini are two of my favorite albums and they were such a huge departure and evolution from OutKast's first album and from what a lot of people were doing at the time. What was the creative process behind these two albums like?
Also, who's idea was it for the horns on SpottieOttieDopalicious?
all the records that we made were experiments so it was no set process, we just went in and started messing around. Every album is like building a Frankenstein monster or a science project.
The horns were me and Andre 3000's idea.
What's your most played song on itunes?
3-6 Mafia Slob on my Knob
1.) How often do you eat at Waffle house?
2.) Do you miss performing with Andre?
1) Maybe two times a week. I just had some this morning.
2) Of course yes
I know it's been less than a year since Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors came out, but do you already have plans for a third solo album? If so, have you begun recording yet? Lastly, do you plan on experimenting more like you did on VLADR?
Also, what music do you listen to? Who are your favorite rappers currently in the game? Do you have plans to collab with any of those rappers?
I'm actually working on a record right now. I plan on experimenting more, that is the only way you grow.
I listen to everything. I have 13,000 songs in my ipod and keep it on shuffle so anything might come on. I like Killer Mike, I also like Big KRIT.
If you could pick one song for the world to remember outkast by which one would it be?
Was there ever a song the label wanted you and Andree to re-write or not submit?
That's a good question. I don't know yet.
Elevators, actually. They didn't like the song Elevators and me and Dre took it to the radio stations because we were so adamant about releasing it, and it blew up and after then they never questioned us on any selections. We picked all our own singles from that point forward.
AFter hearing Cudi's hook on She Hates me and loving the combination of you too i was wondering, who are some of your favorite artists to combine with and why?
I like to record with just about anybody, to have the sounds come together to make a new sound. Some of my new favorite people to record with are Little Dragon and Phantogram. Long live the funk!
a crazy story from your childhood/younger years?
well i am the eldest of 5 kids and used to live in a motel 6 with my mom, eating sandwiches out of a cooler for a whole entire school year. it's real life.
what's one non hip hop group that you find yourself listening to of late?
Mumford & Sons.
Whats the one song that you have ever recorded that you are the most proud of?
it's like asking if you love one of your kids more than the other. but i would have to say currently Descending from Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumors. Lots of personal feelings involved in that song.
It's a cool song.
My question is, after doing so much in your career, what else is left that you still want to accomplish?
that's a good question. Actually I want to walk on and play for the Falcons, but I hurt my leg. I just want to keep making the coldest music on the planet.
as an elder statesman of sorts of the ATL scene, how do you feel about the new crop of kids making more melodic left-of-center stuff like you (and Andre) did for so many years? guys like Future (well since he's Rico Wade's cousin it makes sense I guess haha), Rich Homie Quan, etc...bridging the gap between all the hard trap stuff, the rich R&B history of the city, Kast, and like your solo stuff where you've reached out and brought in a lot of really forward thinking singers and producers?
I embrace all music and generations. I respect all music. Everybody is not going to sound the same and you gotta give people a chance to grow.
You're smellcome.
Could you tell us a funny/interesting/motivating anecdote from your career?
The first time I met Tupac, we were opening for him in Ohio and he was pulling up to the hotel in a limousine, and he jumped through the partition of his limo and threw the car in park because the driver wouldn't stop because he wanted to holler at me and Dre. He almost tore up the transmission in the limo. Real life.
Big Boi, what was it like working with killer mike and el p? They seem like some of the coolest dudes in hip hop
It was real cool man. Killer is like my little brother and El P is a sole producer and it was a really chill environment. We just camped out at a studio in Brooklyn and made it happen.
Who is your favorite artist you haven't gotten to work with yet?
Kate Bush. Her and Bob Marley are tied for first place.
ATLiens and Aquemini are two of my favorite albums and they were such a huge departure and evolution from OutKast's first album and from what a lot of people were doing at the time. What was the creative process behind these two albums like?
Also, who's idea was it for the horns on SpottieOttieDopalicious?
all the records that we made were experiments so it was no set process, we just went in and started messing around. Every album is like building a Frankenstein monster or a science project.
The horns were me and Andre 3000's idea.
What's your most played song on itunes?
3-6 Mafia Slob on my Knob
1.) How often do you eat at Waffle house?
2.) Do you miss performing with Andre?
1) Maybe two times a week. I just had some this morning.
2) Of course yes
I know it's been less than a year since Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors came out, but do you already have plans for a third solo album? If so, have you begun recording yet? Lastly, do you plan on experimenting more like you did on VLADR?
Also, what music do you listen to? Who are your favorite rappers currently in the game? Do you have plans to collab with any of those rappers?
I'm actually working on a record right now. I plan on experimenting more, that is the only way you grow.
I listen to everything. I have 13,000 songs in my ipod and keep it on shuffle so anything might come on. I like Killer Mike, I also like Big KRIT.
If you could pick one song for the world to remember outkast by which one would it be?
Was there ever a song the label wanted you and Andree to re-write or not submit?
That's a good question. I don't know yet.
Elevators, actually. They didn't like the song Elevators and me and Dre took it to the radio stations because we were so adamant about releasing it, and it blew up and after then they never questioned us on any selections. We picked all our own singles from that point forward.
AFter hearing Cudi's hook on She Hates me and loving the combination of you too i was wondering, who are some of your favorite artists to combine with and why?
I like to record with just about anybody, to have the sounds come together to make a new sound. Some of my new favorite people to record with are Little Dragon and Phantogram. Long live the funk!
a crazy story from your childhood/younger years?
well i am the eldest of 5 kids and used to live in a motel 6 with my mom, eating sandwiches out of a cooler for a whole entire school year. it's real life.
what's one non hip hop group that you find yourself listening to of late?
Mumford & Sons.
Whats the one song that you have ever recorded that you are the most proud of?
it's like asking if you love one of your kids more than the other. but i would have to say currently Descending from Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumors. Lots of personal feelings involved in that song.
