Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Habs ned ganz geschafft, aber nice bis dahin - 3

Had this album when I was a young lad. Love Below is very good

Muy largo, pero trajo algunos buenos recuerdos de la niñez en el barrio. Algunas canciones tienen buenas combinacion, otras buenas rimas y otras buen ritmo

The album(s) had some fantastic songs, but also many songs felt experimental. I think that's ok for maybe one or two songs, or a mixtape, but for a studio album, you really have to already be a fan of the band to not be thrown off by experimental songs like this. Andre 3000 is not a singer, btw.

Dear God this is a long album

Decent.

The album was long. Really long. But I wouldn’t necessarily say that I didn’t enjoy it. It’s actually hard to pick out a “bad” song or even parts that were hard to get through but also, It being over 2 hours made it hard to pick out any “good” / notable songs because there was so much to consume. It flowed well though and enjoyed it slightly more than I was expecting.

This was too long, to be honest. It was pretty okay, but I did not finish it.

2.5

2nd disc is a whole different experience and pulls the album up from a 2; pretty raunchy lyrics throughout, though

Kinda bloated, could be reduced to a single album in my opinion.

Hip hop isn't my typical music. I don't quite understand it. I think this is more uplifting with a dash of activism sprinkled in. The videos of the album seem meant to be funny

some stuff is really good, some is gruesome

Sometimes fun

Lotta really good stuff on here but at over 2 hours it feels bloated. I get that it’s like a double album or whatever but it felt like a slog by the end. Everything with killer mike is great and this is an impressive forward thinking hip-hop album from a time when song structure and innovation were far from the rap games mind.

2003. Key Songs: Roses, Hey Ya!, Bowtie

Viel zu lange und viel zu viele mittelmäßige tracks 2/5

Far too long, packed full of filler, was happy for this one to draw to a close, the music wasn’t bad, just too much bang average songs, this did not need to be a double album

5/10

Nothing particularly unique or interesting about this album

This album must have been incredibly fresh when it came out. The scale of the project is massive, which makes sense given that it’s a double album. Speakerboxxx is just a fun listen—a true, driving rap and hip-hop record—while The Love Below feels much more experimental and conceptual.

A few good moments (more so in the first half) but j just got bored the longer it dragged out. I think really Mr. Out and Mr. Kast should have just released their own albums separately.

Gast echt meer dan 2 uur… 💀 Hopelijk is het het waard. Ghettomusick voelt al verschillende nummers in 1 track. Sowieso vind ik dit album bij-elkaar-geraapt. Er zitten zeker lekkere nummers bij, maar ik mis een rode draad die de nummers samenbrengt? Het voelt als joh ik heb wat nummers over, laten we dat allemaal op 1 plaat gooien. Maar is het werkelijk garbage, dat ook weer niet. Ah het zijn dus eigenlijk 2 albums op 1 plaat… dan snap ik de keuze om deze genres te mixen niet… Wel interessant om te merken dan ik Speakerboxxx meer kan waarderen dan The Love Below.

Mucho jaleo...

Innovative doesn’t always mean great? The hits still hit, but lots of the rest is ridiculous

Hey Ya is probably my favorite hip hop song of all time. Roses was a spectacular surprise! The rest of it stank. 2 hours to hear two good songs.

Earns a 2 by not being overly vulgar

ik voel de vibe niet helemaal waar ze voor gaan.. best wel saaie hiphop?? tweede helft was wel veel meer vibey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U9rMkgoGL8&pp=0gcJCQQLAYcqIYzv

Couple good songs but far too long that you just lose interest

This is the kind of Hip Hop that white record collector / record store people who hate Hip Hop will tell you they like. Turns out it is not as bad as I had thought based on those experiences.

I don't want to hear it

Cool but not totally my thing 3.

Bought this when it came out off the back of a couple of singles I liked … was disappointed then and I’m still disappointed now. Too long and really don’t get the double solo album format.

Kan som udgangspunkt bedre lide når OutKast laver musik sammen! Hey Ya er en af de bedste sange der nogensinde er skrevet, men Andres plade lugter meget af at *alle* ideer skulle føres ud i livet. Der er helt sikkert 60 minutters fed musik her, men der er ikke 135 minutters fed musik.

Some of their best songs is on here, but they're hidden inside 135 minutes..

My first reaction to seeing an early 2000s hip hop album that is over two hours long is...not excitement. I mean of course everyone has heard Hey Ya but this is not exactly something I would be familiar with otherwise. However, apparently there is some good funkier/jazzier/more soulful stuff here? Basically this is two separate albums packaged together form what I gather, hopefully one will be tolerable... Ok, halfway through the first album, more of the same. Maybe not as bad as some but where is this funkier side I was promised? Standard early 2000s hip hop so far, violence, misogyny, and all. First album down, nothing new, still irritating hip hop that I don't connect with at all. 1.5/5 for the first half. Halfway through album number two and this one is a little better. It actually does have some interesting things going on - real instruments, actual melodies, well constructed songs. I am giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming that some of this is supposed to be funny because parts of this really make me appreciate how well Flight of the Conchords parodied this kind of music. 3/5 for this album. All in all this was one of the less terrible hip hop albums I've come across but counting it as one album makes no sense. It is clearly two albums that are wildly different slapped together and should have been separate releases though. 2.25/5

Not one I’d listen to again

I was just about to judge this record after an hour or so, but then the "The Love Below" part started. Wasn't too excited about the Speakerboxxx part, but the second half was much more interesting. Still I would appreciate more tracks like the jazzy 'Love hater' or 'My favorite things' for example. Speakerbox **/***** Love Below ***/*****. Maybe as whole it's closer to ** than ***.

#380 / 1089 Heard before? ✅ Revisit? 🤷‍♂️ It is now difficult to understand what kind of effect this album had over 20 year ago, but I'd think it didn't come out in a total vacuum and the styles they use weren't unheard of. Probably on a double album they were, but that doesn't really make it that much different in my opinion, just technicalities. A lot of this record is stuffing, fluff in the background, so many interludes and fillers, which I found annoying in the 80's, let alone today! It felt too long before the first record was even over, at about half way mark I started skipping tracks after a minute or so. Second album freshened it up a bit, felt like changing to whole another artists music. But that too has too much fluff on it. I think "Hey Ya!" was the first track to actually make me move in my seat. Strong 2/5

Quirky but ultimately disappointing

OK in small doses, but over two hours... Transparency, I didn't get to the end.

I didn’t mind this but deductions apply for length

It's got that upbeat sad song called "Hey Ya!" on it. So it's got that going for it.

I have to split my rating. Speakerboxxx is up there with the worst Albums I have ever heard. It’s so bad. 1/5 The Love below is better, it has the hits and it feels musically balanced. Liked it, but it has too much songs and running time. 3/5 Fav: My favorite things

No lo volvería a escuchar, pero joyita escuchar la influencia de estos sonidos en la música que ha salido en las últimas dos décadas. Love Hater thoooo, OBSESIÓN.

Classic example of above average talent managing to overreach its boundary. These guys are 2 of the godfathers of southern hip hop, and released 2 masterpieces of the genere. Then came the fame amd glory and out the back door went the talent and creativity. Sure Stanktopia (sic) was a hit, but had none of the individual flavor of thier early work, and made purely for the masses. This entry a double disc breakup album, imo, just further fractures the ingenious ingredients that these artists used to dabble in.

SIGH. It's just really not my thing. I understand that they are an iconic group and have produced some incredibly influential tracks and albums BUT... It just doesnt really click with me.

Did the physical release have a sticker that said "Hey Ya and 2 hours of other"? Overcooked and overstuffed.2 stars for Hey Ya though.

Disc one is fire. Disc 2 is shite.

Speakerboxxx was actually pretty good. Not my genre, but I liked it. The Love Below was tiresome - a 14 year old bragging about all the pussy he gets. I couldn't finish.

Still need to listen to this one... 🙈

This is one of those 'I appreciate what they have done, I just don't like it' albums. Absolutely too long too.

Too ghetto for me. ★★

2 hours? Pass.

I gave Stankonia 5 stars. At 1 hr 13 minutes it’s a lot. But it’s worth the investment of your time. This is a full hour longer. Its highs are not as high. Its lows are lower. And did I mention it’s a full hour longer. You do not need to hear this before you die.

I don’t really like most of the tracks on this album, but that’s just my personal opinion, of course... :-)

Not bad, but insanely long with a lot of filler. good first half, second half is pretty bad.

No need for me to listen to 2 1/4 hours of this - 15 minutes was more than enough.

There are a few bangers but the outrageous length of the album (2 hours and 15 minutes??? Be so serious) absolutely buries the gems. I didn’t even care about fhe good songs once I got to them. No.

Lord Jesus God I had this double album and back then I swear it wasn't this annoying and long. Just split up already if you don't want to make albums together.

hey ya

Definitely too long. Second disc was much better than the first. 3 and 1 so an average of 2

Ugh. Wildly inconsistent and ludicrously long.

I was definitely not looking forward to this, especially after not being impressed at all with OutKast’s previous album. This one is a lot better, but I still struggled. The Rooster was the first track of theirs I genuinely liked, but I had to skip during tracks like Bust, Tomb of the Boom, and Church. There’s just too many irritating elements for me, even though I can appreciate the creativity. The Love Below half had a few more bright spots. Behold a Lady and Pink & Blue were both pretty interesting. I’m utterly sick of Hey Ya though, and Roses was so laughably bad I had to skip after a couple minutes. I definitely did not expect the jazzy take on My Favorite Things. Some of the vocal jazz takes elsewhere sound like parodies since the singing is really off. I feel like I at least can see the appeal of a lot of what’s here (vs. Stankonia which just didn’t have anything I liked or understood). There’s a lot of variety but it missed with me quite a bit more than it hit and the 2:15 length made it a slog to get through.

Save :2

Too long, too self indulgent. Couple of good tunes but remove the filler

Meh

5.5

This music is literally not for me. I just don’t have the life experience to understand it. There were a couple good songs and “favorite things” is amazing.

Far too long and self indulgent. About 30 minutes of decent music padded out to over 2 hours.

This is functionally two albums, both of which have a lot of filler. Again, chalking it up to not being in the right headspace, but this was pretty exhausting as a full-album listen. Highs are high, lows are way more frequent than they needed to be and skits are among the worst things to happen to hip-hop.

Eh

Disappointing

Good album, some throwback bangers, but a bit long tbh

mid 2

This is a very experimental album. Speakerboxxx has some great songs in there and not many flops. The love below on the other hand, is shit... so many songs that just dont go anywhere and only Hey Ya that is good. The whole album is a dread to listen through being 2 hours and 14 minutes and there are many songs they could've taken out.

Поймала себя на мысли. Слава Богу, что Саймон выпустил сольный альбом, не такой double feature с Гарфункелем. Я бы не выдержала. Несмотря на то, что ребятам больше зашла вторая часть, мне как-то приглянулась первая за счёт двух фитов с Киллер Майком. Вторая - очень скучная, только упражнение на тему Звуков музыки понравилось

I thought I would like this a lot more than I did. I remember the hits obviously but I guess I was young then and now they just feel really silly and not in a way I enjoy anymore. A lot of songs felt like they were hitting you over the head with a theme that was kind of just gross (ie spread). It’s just not for me and it’s so long. I’m not an interlude person either and I didn’t feel it really added much.

So this is really two separate albums - one by Big Boi and one by Andre 3000 - that was released as one double album by the two together as Outkast. Two totally separate albums with different sounds. Speakerboxxx by Big Boi is more rap based, while The Love Below by Andre 3000 is more hip hop and lyrical. Everyone knows "Hey Ya!" which is really the only song I knew. The album was very, very long. I'm glad I got it on a Sunday morning and I had other things to do on my laptop so I could just play it in the background. I actually preferred the Speakerboxx album, which surprised me as I'm not typically a big fan of rap.

This really dragged on, felt like I’d listened to 2 hours of it and still half the album is left. Double LPs are seldom worth it, just release part 2 a few months later.

didn’t finish

disc 2 is probably better imo, but in general not really for me

Maybe I just wasn't feeling it but this album is just so mid. Firstly it's 2 hours long and there's a ton of filler, and secondly the high points aren't even that high. Aquemini and Stankonia are better.

Really not my thing.

Should’ve been two separate albums. Some enjoyable stuff on side b but overall, not my cup of tea.

Heard Hey Ya obviously. I liked the the 1st part but I can't in good conscience give this album a high score because who the hell told Andre to write so many random songs 😭 the whole 2nd album is just him doing some weird stuff with their biggest hit sandwiched in between 2/5

I couldn’t finish it I liked maybe a few songs but this album was not it 😅

OK. Some good beats. Liked the jazzy stuff. Probs wouldn't listen again though.

Weirdly I actually see why it’s on this list but I just don’t care for it at all

A few bangers

This was tough to rate as it was super horny and had too many interludes, also too long, but I did like some of it. A high 2.

after finishing the first half of the album, my rating would probably only be 2 stars - not because i can't understand why this is such a renowned album, but simply because rap isn't really for me, and 2 stars would line up with my rating system. there weren't many tracks which stood out that i would actively want to relisten to. i'll see how the rating changes after listening to the second half. coming to the end of the album, i definitely like the second half of album more. its felt like quite a slog listening to the full thing, but after having looked online at some comments from fans who stand by the album, i am interested to see if i selected specific tracks to listen back to individually whether any of them would grow on me. however, as of now, the album aligns most with my philosophy for 3 stars -may not be something i would actively revisit but has a few good tracks.

this is way too long

Not what I was expecting, I can see why this is a must listen, it is very creatively written and has many well known songs on it.

Big Boi's Speakerboxxx - solid 3, if not low 4. Andre 3000's The Love Below - esh. Hey Ya! everyone recognizes and Roses is good. The rest is just to up to anywhere near OutKast standards. If it was its own album, it would be a low 2 or even really high 1. If this double album taught me nothing, it's that I'm more of a Big Boi fan than a Andre fan musically. Sorry, but it's a high 2 for me. Wish it was more.

WAY too much of a not so good thing. At 2+ hours there was no way I was going to listen to all of this. Hip hop isn't my thing and sampling this did nothing to change my mind.

Not really my vibe, appreciate the drip

Idk wat ik ermee moet

Ehh I feel like it has potential and I don’t mind some of the songs but just not for me

Way too long, couldn't do it

war leider gar nicht meins

5/10 Speakerboxx is that rare thing for me, engaging, listenable hip-hop! Who'd have thunk it. It has music and isn't all about the typical hip-hop tropes. Well done Big Boi. I can only guess Andre 3000 played Big Boi "Hey Ya" and had BB worried. But then once he'd had to play the rest of the crap on The Love Below, Big Boi would have been working out how he could detach himself from the Outlast moniker. Not a double album - they have no relation to each other apart that they two artists were once collaborators. Score averaged to 3 stars and less one for being too long. Man it was such a slog

Way too long and not good enough to justify it. 2,5

I don't like rap or hip hop, but I can appreciate that this album is a bit special, so it gets a two star instead of a one. It would have got three, except for the lyric "roses smell like poo-poo-ooh".

Funky, but too eclectic and annoying for my taste, interesting listening experience that I dont want to repeat

Too long only listened to first half of it

Based on only having heard Hey Ya!, I always assumed OutKast was one of those gimmicky, shallow party bands and since I'm not really into hip hop and I'm definitely not into party music, I never had a reason to check them out before. I fear that a 2 hour and 15 minute double (triple? quadruple?) album might not be the best intro to any group, though. Speakerboxxx (disc 1): Honestly, I'm enjoying the first disc a lot more than I was expecting. There's so much going on in each track and the production is great! Lost me a bit on Tomb of the Boom, which devolves into awful gangsta rap tropes, but overall, I kind of dug this half of the album. The Love Below (disc 2): Wow, ok, so this is a totally different album, huh? I love the psychedelic, jazz-y feel of this side, but the interludes and themes are incredibly cringy. I get that he's trying to tell some love story, but God and Where Are My Panties are just not enjoyable to listen to at all. Neither is Roses. Honestly, I'm struggling to finish this half. Overall, I found that Speakerboxxx was more consistently enjoyable, while the Love Below had higher highs and lower lows and unfortunately those lows out numbered the highs quite significantly. I wish they had edited this down to even a standard length double album; 2 hours and 15 minutes is just too much to digest. It almost as if I wish these two guys made one cohesive album rather than slapping two individual albums together and calling it a day.

This would've been improved with some ruthless editing.

Feels less like a double album and more like two albums jammed together randomly. The Love Below is the better of the two - more ambitious and has the standout single in Hey Ya. TLB = 3, Speakerbox is a 2.

I'm not even going to go there...

this is another example of a double album that would have been better if it weren't.

How fucking long is this thing?

Too long

2.5/5. A proper slog of an effort. Speakerboxxx starts out so promising, some really cool and experimental sounds. Seems to get worse as it goes on, moulding into quite generic hip-hop. The less said about The Love Below, the better. Roses/Hey Ya aside, it's a load of self-indulgent nonsense.

I'm mostly not a fan of hip-hop and rap aside from the odd album or song, so being presented with a two-hour double album like this is already a big pill to swallow. Blending genres and influences normally helps the medicine go down here but here I struggled to stomach all the sugar piled on the spoon. If you like pop and hip-hop there's probably a wealth of content here to indulge in but it feels too much for me. As I was listening there were moments of excellence that popped up but again, it was generally lost in a landslide of ideas. After 40 minutes I started skipping the 'interludes'. Probably good for a party? I wouldn't know, I don't get invited to parties. It's a 2.5 from me.

Some of the beats and rapping are nice, and some songs are fun and catchy. There are some redeeming qualities here and there. But minus one point because no album in the history doesn't have the need to be 2 h 15 min, unless it's Joe's Garage and, as far as I'm concerned, this one isn't Joe's Garage.

Hey Ya + other 20 unoriginal songs

Not their best.

Speakerboxxx - funky, having fun, fairly simplistic dumbed down lyrics with some clever alliterations or word plays, nothing special. The Love Below - jazz like jazz jazz, 30s vocals, soul, feelings on the platter, dumb lyrics. I guess the novelty of this album is it simply being a double album of seeming opposites.

2.5 - ok

Why is this so long? Good 2 for Roses and Hey Ya

Hey ya hey ya

Stankonia, their supposed best release, did not get me excited. So I wasn't too happy to see a double album by outkast. Did not make it through. +1 star for the hits

This album would be fine if it was about an hour and a half shorter. A lot of the overly sexual songs and skits can go. There are a few decent songs, and if the album of as just those few songs, it’d be 4-5 stars, but there’s sooooo much crap

Speakerboxx/The Love Below “Musicality, blah blah blah” - My father, listening with me this morning I recently listened to a podcast where the journalist-presenter made an impassioned argument for Big Boi as one of the greatest rappers of all time. The host may be correct - as this project has gone on, it has become clear that I have no idea what really differentiates good rapping from great rapping. What did become clear to me, through the host’s argumentation, was that the attributes valued in rapping are speed, dexterity, and diction. And that ranking these skills and ranking rapping was an important part of the culture. I realised that rappers are not vocalists or singers, but guitar heroes. They are shredders. And the competition that fuels much guitar talk is replicated in rap culture. This is not really how we talk about singers, who are rarely put in direct competition with each other - outside the rank of the divas but it how we speak about virtuosos. I don’t really care for virtuosity. Especially when virtuosity - speed, dexterity, diction - is skill at the expense of musicality. The bragaduccio that is an integral part of hip hop lyricism is an expression of that competitive virtuosity. It is all in aggressive conversation with everything else and at such speed that you have to be really invested to follow it. I’m not that invested. Even the two halves of this double album are put in argument with each other. There is no sense of a whole and one has to pick a side as to which is better: Big Boi’s true hip hop or Andre’s light Prince. It should be clear then that the musicality that my father noted, with surprise, was on The Love Below and I have to agree. More songs, more playfulness, even when that means painful skits and trite jazz parody. But some of that aggression peeks through anyway. For all the imitation here, Prince was never so mean-spirited about the women in his life and that sours the taste somewhat. I don’t know if Big Boi is mean to his ladies, as he’s shredding through it all and I can’t keep up. In recent years, Andre has said that, at 50, he is too old to rap - it is a young man’s game, fuelled by young man’s passions and concerns and a young man’s competitiveness. His most recent album was an instrumental flute record, a turn to pure musicality ( for better or worse). The first track is I Swear I Really Wanted To Make A “Rap” Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time. 2 Speakerboxxx/The Love Below As everyone has long agreed, there is a decent single album hiding inside Outkast’s double album and it’s ‘The Love Below’ half. Imagine my surprise to discover, after not listening to it for many years, that this is untrue! The Love Below half is shit and all. There are many moments of brilliance throughout this slog of a record. The problem is that almost every one of them is then copied back in without variation. The Way You Move has that chorus - cut and pasted to absurdity - and nothing else. Amid the airless buzz of pointlessly repeated choruses there are only the attempts at comedy to keep us going. The multitracked ‘funny vocal’ style in the songs grates very quickly. The actual sketches are excruciating. I still like Hey Ya and Dracula’s Wedding. Take Off Your Cool is very nice, and even if it is only a miniature it ought to have been the template; say the very little you have to say musically and leave. Nothing here should have been longer than 2 1/2 minutes. 1.5/5

Allright allright allright allright allright they could've done with less than an hour too.

Some good. 2/5

Way Wayne way too long and it suffers for the self-indulgence.

I liked part 2 more but I don't think I would listen to it again.

These albums could have been so good, seriously a missed opportunity. Having them be one album that's two hours long was their first mistake. It plays as two albums, so should be treated as such. Andre and Big Boi literally made their own seperate albums and decided to make them one, when this would already have been so much better as two solo albums from them each. And then you have the issue of the music itself not even being all that interesting. It has a few good songs in there, Hey Ya is an obvious classic. But it's just not at all worth listening to all two hours of this just for a handful of good songs.

Das Doppelalbum „Speakerboxxx/The Love Below“ von OutKast besteht aus zwei getrennten Alben: „Speakerboxxx“ von Big Boi und „The Love Below“ von André 3000. Es zeigt die unterschiedlichen künstlerischen Perspektiven der beiden Mitglieder und erweitert die Grenzen des Hip-Hop. Speakerboxxx – Big Boi: Big Boi liefert energiegeladenen Southern Hip-Hop mit Funk- und Soul-Einflüssen. Bekannte Songs sind „GhettoMusick“, „The Way You Move“ und „War“. Die Produktion ist inspiriert von George Clinton und bietet eine starke Basis für Big Bois präzises Rappen. The Love Below – André 3000: André 3000 experimentiert mit Pop, Funk, Jazz und Soul. Höhepunkte sind „Hey Ya!“, „Prototype“ und „Roses“, die durch Falsettstimme und ungewöhnliche Arrangements hervorstechen. Humor und Romantik prägen den Charakter des Albums. Das Album erhielt breite Anerkennung, gewann mehrere Grammys, darunter „Album des Jahres“, und verkaufte über fünf Millionen Exemplare. Es ist ein Meilenstein in der Geschichte des Hip-Hop.

2 Stars (5/15)

Had to skip a lot of this - too long not to. Hey Ya! Is good and I quite liked Last Call, but the other 126 minutes was so bad this was almost a 1

The Love Below was head and shoulders above Speakerbox for me. Highlight was hearing some Coltrane inspired Favourite Things. Okay, just long but it is a double album I guess?

2.7

Couple of good songs. So much too much longer than an album of this quality should’ve be.

Kyl tää nyt vähän petti odotukset. Oon sitä "Stankonia" tms. levyä kuunnellut ja siinon parempi meno ja melske. Tässon vissiin noiden pumpun jarrujen osuudet jaettu vallan eri älpeille ja se rikkoo harmoniaa. Spiikerpoksi ei lähtenyt yhtään, mutta lavpilou ol sit maittavampi, mut kuitenkin molempia vaivaa jotenkin muoviset ja vaisut saundit. Levyn isoimmat hitit on tietty hyviä joten niistä plussaa. Pituushommissa tää menee viel rajummaks kuin pumpkinssi ja tää on varmasti ei niin paljoo hipetihopetista tykkäävälle melkonen koetinkivi lusia läpi ja fiilis touhusta voi olla se, että päivästä toiseen tarjolla on ylipitkiä levyjä, joita ei haluis kuulla ennen kuolemaa. Noh mut pitkässä listassa tulee kaikennäköstä vastaan ja eiköhän se särökitarakin sieltä taas kohta kilkata.

Nämä 2-levyn julkaisut pitäisi saada perjantaille. Kyseisen levyn kohdalla asia ei kuitenkaan aiheuta ongelmia, koska en jaksaisi muutenkaan kuunnella tätä materiaalia kahta levyä.

Eip oikeen oo minun juttu. Sentään paljon muutakin, kuin vaan sampleja ja räpätystä.

Tää oli kyllä iso pettymys. Entuudestaan tiesin tästä vaan isot hitit, ja nehän on hyviä biisejä. Niiden lisäksi ei oikeastaan noussut yhtään mitään kappaletta esille. Siihen lisättynä se että levy oli pitkä kuin nälkävuosi, niin hohhoijjakkaa. Kakkoslevy vielä tunnelmaltaan leppoisampi kun eka, niin oli kyllä unen tulo lähellä.

Decent album

4/10

I didn’t know what to expect from this album and given its length, I listened to each “album” separately and not the whole thing in one go. For a start, it’s long. Even breaking it up, the seperate albums themselves are still long. However it has Hey Ya on it so it’s pretty good. The first album was probably more typical rap and I didn’t hate it. It’s just not for me. The second album felt more experimental and aside from Hey Ya, I wasn’t a big fan of it either.

Too long didn't finish but didn't hate

Not for me

I want to like it. I like some of it. I think.

Not much of musical interest for me with the exception of some of the Prince-inspired ideas.

Too long. Some fun songs and a lot of nostalgia but one I’m unlikely to revisit.

Eclectic hiphop. Needs editing.

Some good songs I remember. Some I did not care for.

I think I made it through one entire listen of both in 2003. There's material here for less than one album, but the hits are phenomenal. Sloan tried a comparable album - Commonwealth - and it largely works the same. You just need everyone contributing to each track, even if it's just a guitar part or backing vocal, otherwise the spark you have come to associate with the band/duo is missing.

I wish they trimmed the fat and this was a 1/3 of the length. 2.5/5

I think the best way to sum up this 40-track, two-and-a-quarter-hour monstrosity is ‘self indulgent’. It’s not completely awful but I did not enjoy any more than maybe 15 minutes of it, and that ROI in my books is pretty shit.

The double album, while novel as a way for a two person group to work together separately, led to the overall project feeling bloated. Each song, like the double album itself, felt like it overstayed its welcome with only a few exceptions. Extended repetition in word and beat is a perfectly reasonable tool to be used by artists, but each time it was employed here was more loathsome than it was compelling. A phenomenal production value and the handful of hits save these albums from not being revisited for me. Perhaps I lack some inter-textuality or broader context for the works within their respective genres, but they just don't do it for me standing on their own. 2.5/5

I did not fuck with it

Where Are My Panties didn’t have “(Interlude)”??? that is Not a song and you shouldn’t shake polaroid pictures 🤓☝️

too many fucking interludes

45/1001 Speakerboxxx/The Loce Below Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ I honestly dreaded this when it came up and I got it done. For me personally, Speakerboxxx is the far more interesting half with snippets of jazz, soul and funk thrown in. The Love Below feels a bit more experimental and it didn't work for me. What saved that half was the one two of Hey Ya! and Roses.

I don't know... there are some major bangers, but I feel like for a 40+ song double album they are few and far between for me and most of them were on The Love Below. If it was that single album it would have been a 3, but speakerboxxx weighed it down.

2 out of 5. The first half, Speakerboxxx, was better to listen to, though The Love Below's variety was it's best feature. This does go on for too long if listening to the whole thing from start to finish.

Ahhh what a weird one to rate. Double album with some bangers and forgettable ones. Too many skits in an already long album. Other than the songs I knew, wasn’t really into it.

Speakerboxxx niks voor mij. 1 ster The love below is beter. Maar de interludes vind ik niet goed.

Very long album, with way too many interludes. Still some killer hits that everyone knows and Killer Mike destroys it on “Bust” Regardless this is way too long and could have been cut into a single album. 2.5/5

I didn't think I was going to like any of this as it's just not the genre I'm into. So I was "pleasantly surprised" with how listenable some of it is Then again, it's not something that I would choose to listen to.

You’re just pulling my leg, right? I must have stumbled upon the deluxe edition, right, right? Well, fortunately with this album I can deploy my two-hour rule, where I only have to listen to albums longer than two hours once instead of my usual twice. I’ll think of this album as endurance training for the fearsome 69 Love Songs, an album that only becomes more probable with each passing day. Still. Man. Why do these hip-hop albums always have to be so fuuuuuuuuuuuucking loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong. I thought Stankonia was padded out the ass. With that kind of track record, I’m expecting this double album to be entirely ass. DAY ONE: Speakerboxxx I usually write the preamble for these albums on my first listen and my actual thoughts on the second, but I guess I’m handling everything at once now. Here we go. GhettoMusick is a strange track - the kind of experimentation I’m not used to with hip-hop. I don’t think it pulls off whatever it's trying to get at, though I can respect the effort in being unusual. Unhappy is a better follow-up. I appreciate the mile-a-minute vocals and its undeniably catchy in some areas. The ska influence on the early songs is interesting, especially on Bowtie, The Way You Move and Rooster. Speakerboxxx falls into an extreme slump somewhere down the middle but somewhat recovers in the final quarter – Reset is alright. Overall, the experience is kind of lost on me. Disc one starts out competent and tapers off very quickly, likely due to my own mental fatigue setting in. I always sound like a miserable prick whenever I write these reviews for hip-hop albums. In all fairness I think these Outkast guys are adept within their niche and have the most artistic merit out of all the other rap artists I’ve heard through the list. Hip-hop just doesn’t appeal to me. DAY TWO: The Love Below Back again, this time with a lovely orchestral intro. I wonder what’s in store for me. Wow, what a pivot. I didn’t see this coming. Love Hater is a solid track. It’s strange hearing rap lyrics paired with a jazz fusion-y sound. The song is enjoyable, especially on the instrumental front. The bossa nova sound of God is a good follow-up... Just excuse the lyrics. Man, WHAT THE FUCK????????? Disc 2 had something going for it, then it was taken away from me. Oh well. Happy Valentine’s Day is belaboured and repetitious, though the electronic oscillating sound at the end of the song is pretty neat. Prototype redeems the album a little with a very nice, funky instrumental. No fucking way. This second half is full of surprises. Here I was, bored out of my mind listening to She Lives in My Lap and then, without warning, I get jumped by Hey Ya! Good song, though I would never have guessed that it came from a double album, or an early 2000s album, no less. There are some good instrumentals a little later down the line, but I’m kind of completely mentally exhausted at this point, so I’m just gonna list em out with no elaboration: She’s Alive, My Favorite Things and Take Off Your Cool. I respect the experimental first side of this album, though I greatly prefer the more relaxed sound of The Love Below. It’s a sound for sore ears. Gonna check the book on this one. A whole lotta waffling about originality. I can’t criticise – it definitely is unique, both in background and sound. As mentioned before, Outkast are the best of the hip-hop artists I’ve listened to through the list, so I respect this inclusion. I thought I’d be nearing the end of the hip-hop ladder with this megalodon album behind me, but alas. Of the top 20 hip-hop albums on this site, I’ve now listened to 8. I don’t know for sure how many hip-hops I have left in me, but I will soldier on nonetheless.

point2.

Way too long.

some complete stinkers on this album. it shouldnt be on the list. theres no reason this and stankonia are here over aquemini and atliens, absolutely ridiculous. maybe theres a reason people dont put out 2h15, 40 track albums all the time, there is so much fat to cut off this album. if this was a normal single album, there could be some gold here. im gonna go listen to a 6/5 album; aquemini

Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Added 13/40 songs Best song: Roses

I get it but it's not for my ear. All feels very produced and processed.

Some reasonable tracks, but this just isn't for me.

2 amazing songs and the rest is blah

There is such a thing as too much OutKast

A load of trash in between Bust (Killer Mike is generally the best thing on the album as a whole), and Hey Ya and Roses.

not into these guys pret much at all. this came out while i was in high school and the only thing i felt about it was i wish Hey Ya would never play anywhere ever again. i did not know that this was actually 2 discs with 40 tracks total which is ambitious no matter what i feel. 3 singles that still play, but not my style for any of them. crowd pleaser and culmination of this group's growth over the years. right off the rip, this is 2/5 because it is never something i would put on alone. production wise, its an achievement in layering hip hop with funk and rock styles in a way that modernizes older music to a newer audience. clearly, the meeting of grit from the street and the experienced quality of musicality is what makes this stand out from other artists in the genre. GhettoMusick is a good start. there is no question that they are having fun making this as stacked as possible, it feels like a magnus opus. there is a playful theme throughout and it seems like no genre is off the table. Bust feat. Killer Mike is a good track. a lot of these songs i am not familiar with. Ludacris has a great feature on Tomb of the Boom. lots of features that show just how far this group has come being in the spotlight. the cover of My Favorite Things is probably why this is on the list, its a technical powerhouse that's going to make any jazz head go nuts. the second half seems like Andre's chance to be as out there and experimental as possible. basically this is a record for everyone, with the diehard Outkast fans being completely vindicated, and new listeners have at least one song that will work for them. the last track is an Andre slice of life wrap up reminiscing about old times which gives the whole thing a very uncertain future ending.

2.5

Lots of creativity, catchy beats and different upbeat moods on this one. Insanely long and not one of my favorites from them though

It's funny how out of place Hey Ya! is amongst the other songs in this double album. Maybe it's just how popular it has gotten since, but it just seems way more poppy than everything else. My Favorite Things was a fun surprise. Also this album is over two hours long!

Their worst album.

An overrated, splintered, bloated mess.

I thought The Love Below section was better than Speakerboxx, but while there were a few songs that I enjoyed, overall neither were really my jam. While I don't mind an occasional skit or interlude, there were a bit too many for my tastes.　

This would be an incredible album if it were 1/4 the length. Some absolutely iconic tunes between some absolute shite.

Ok, I’m putting my foot down. No fucking album, in this universe, should ever, EVER, be close to two fucking hours. I’m sick and fucking tired of double albums as is. And of course it’s a rap/hip-hop album too, my favorite genre. That’s sarcasm if you can’t tell. You know, I’ve gotten Stankonia prior to this. I actually enjoyed it, but I had one big criticism; it was a little too long. This album basically looked at this critique, said “lol”, and doubled down on the length, literally. Ok, I know, I’m harping a little much about the length, but here’s my other problem. There are good songs on this album, but I had to wade through a lot of the other stuff to get to it. I mean, The Way You Move and Hey Ya are iconic and stuff like Church, Prototype, and Roses are really good, but that’s like a handful of songs. On a normal album, a collection of songs like that would be great, but here’s there just drops in the ocean. Everything else just padded the experience. No album should be an endurance test. My mind was starting to wane before Speakerboxxx ended. It’s yet another double album that fatigued me. Look, maybe this whole thing is on me. I have a feeling that if you don’t like rap or hip-hop, this album will do nothing to fix that. And like I said, there are good songs. In this streaming era, you can just pick the songs you like and save them, which is great. But as a whole package, I hated this and considering that I kinda like OutKast, that really sucks. *by the way, if I had to pick, I liked The Love Below over Speakerboxxx. It was more r&b in some places, and overall the tracks were better in my opinion. Favorite track: The Way You More for Speakerboxxx, Hey Ya for The Love Below Other hits: Roses, Church, Bust, Prototype, Happy Valentine’s Day, My Favorite Things

Favorite song, Speakerboxxx: church. The love below: Hey ya Overall score: 4.8/10

Didn’t finish it. Not for me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Good hip-hop, but c'mon....two hours?

Hip Hop isn't normally my thing but I find myself liking a lot of the songs on this album. Good beats and good lyrics. However, the album was 3X longer than it needed to be. I'm also not a fan of how explicit it can be. I won't ever be giving this a relisten

Rap ain't my stuff, but I can appreciate the artistry of something like this. However, I'm afraid not much else.

Unnecessarily long. Did nothing for me, but I had forgotten about “The Way You Move”, which I always liked, so it gains it an extra star.

I'd never listened to the whole of either of them....and didn't like either of them equally. I'm sending Hey Ya a special 5 all on its own because it's one of my all time favorite songs...but the rest gets a 2.

Fun but overall pretty bland

meh

Couldn’t get into it. I’m sorry Ms Jackson

Overly long and tedious

Too many interludes. 'Hey Ya' still amazing tho, and I like 'Roses' too

I hate to be one of those….but I started out thinking ya I like this. But as it dragged on, and man it does at 40 bloody tracks, I was just….enough already. Even half the tracks would have been overkill. Everything you guys burp out ain’t a gem man, just ain’t.

Tynan recommended this album to me

Some bangers, but a lot of misses.

This has enough great songs to make up a 5 star album in it, but it also has over an hour of stuff that is not that. I just cannot do double albums like this it's too much. So self indulgent. I'm being harsh but as an album I cannot rate this well, however in it like I said there is a lot of special songs.

Nope

Complete

☀︎finalement c’est vraiment pas si pire que ça, je préfère écouter ça que Fear Of A Black Planet ☀︎pas fini (c’était quand même 2h14min)

This was a marathon I never trained for—and didn’t even want to run. With all the hype around this album, this definitely wasn’t my first attempt. Speakerboxxx starts off okay, but somewhere around "Tomb of the Boom" I start questioning my life choices. That track? A sonic black hole. The Love Below has its moments, but by the end, I feel like I’ve aged five years. It’s like musical yoga: some stretches feel good, most just leave me sore and confused.

There are few decent tracks. But only a few and I’m not going back to get the names. But why 2 CD length? and so long?? Was studio space having a BOGO deal?

It's still weird to me that they stitched two solo albums together and called it an Outkast album. It's a really long album that highlights why they are better together then apart. The Andre 3000 half gets really boring after Hey Ya.

not my cup of tea

There's really not a lot here that appeals to me. Sure it was influential I bet, and I immediately recognized Hey Ya! with 1.5 billion listens. "My Favorite Things" was really an interesting take on that jazz song too that was enjoyable but overall a 2 for me.

I just didn't care. It's really too long, it's hit and miss with the songs and the production. I was really unimpressed. There's better, earlier OutKast that fits on one album.

as much long this album is , I can tell that both Big Boi and 3K had VERY different visions and was really the split after this that followed you can hear in the music. it's a jarring different move from the group before the split and I can't really can't get down with either side of the 2LP all that well like their previous albums.

Too much album on this album. Things I liked: Jazzy instrumentals Awesome unique flow on the vocal style Great collaborations with noticeable voices The hits are hits for a reason. Disliked: The interludes were obnoxious and add nothing to the album for me Saying Speakerboxxx at the end of so many songs on the first half was a weird choice. Not enough catchy songs. Nothing grabbed me. 2.5/5

This album was WAY TO LONG! I love the song Hey Ya! and I like a bit of Hip Hop, but this album outstayed its welcome.

Nfm

Meh

Not my genre

Too few enjoyable songs to validate the 135 minute run-time. I relished the sound of traffic when the album was finally over. (The second album was the better of the two.)

Waaaaaay too long, could have made two albums out of this. The music was overall okay with a few hits, but I feel like the length made it worse. Choose a few great hits and make an album with those, reuse the rest for another album

This album has some great songs. However, of all the Outkast albums to choose for this list, this is one of only two I would have NOT chosen. Its way too bloated. If it were just the best 45 mins of songs, this could have been great. Also this it the album where Outkast was basically already broken up, and its just a solo BigBoi album stitched together with a solo Andre 3000 album.

I wouldn’t listen to any track on this apart from hey ya

What do you do if you are a critically acclaimed hip hop duo suffering from musical differences? You go off and record an album each, and then put both of them out as a double album under your joint name and hope that nobody notices. This is a real curate’s egg of an album. Parts of it are excellent - I was particularly taken with André 3000’s (I wonder if his mum calls him that) up tempo jazz version of Favourite Things, and of course the sublime ‘Hey Ya!’. However, for every inspired line about shaking it like a Polaroid picture, there is one about how roses smell like poo poo. If you cut out the utterly cringeworthy skits and picked the best tracks from both discs, you would have an absolute classic. As it stands, it’s at least an hour and a half too long.

I always found this a very disappointing OutKast release. A couple of radio hits wrapped in an endless stream of fillers. Maybe I just can’t be bothered to give it a proper chance, but feels like an unbelievable leap in quality from their peak albums

Geht so

# 424 : I still don't like Rap and being Over 2 Hours, couldn't possibly listen to the whole thing, but it's got Hey Ya! On it :-) apart from that it's too long, monotonous, mundane, not very enjoyable. 290 on Rollingstone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and 2004 Grammy Album of the year...still don't know how.

That was a lot to get through. Most wasn't anything I was interested in, but the highlights are enough to bring this up to a 2.5

1. Väldigt långt album. 2. Mycket här som inte var för mig. 3. Några få låtar som var nice (utöver Hey ya)

I like some of the production. Why the hell is this two hours

I'd say 3 for the first album and 2 for the second. Some good material here and there but heavily diluted in the 2 hours long and quite painful albums. Happy to be done with it!

I bought this when it came out, and was obviously swept away by the hype. I’ve never dug OutKast, and I don’t think I ever will. Hey Ya is a slammer though.

Lo siento, eso no está al nivel que mínimamente puede dedicarse un segundo de mi vida, se lo dejo a otros...

Love OutKast but this album is extremely mid

Two and a quarter hours and all I got from it was Hey Ya! I admit there are good ideas and good songs buried in here but it's self-indulgent to the very edge of reason.

After only knowing "Hey ya", my expectation were really, really low for this album. Gladly, I was wrong and there are a few songs that are solid, but 2.25h was too long! it took me a while to be able to sit through the whole thing, and while I liked a couple of songs, I'll never get back to this album :)

Not for me...

There’s some wonderfully produced songs on here I.e the way you move but I have to be honest and say this kind of rap really just doesn’t do it for me. There’s probably a sleuth of lyrics in here I’m missing out on, but the style is off putting and largely unenjoyable. Disc 2 is a stark contrast in a lot of ways. Musically it feels more sophisticated at times even though the motifs tend to be quite bizarre and don’t age well. But in general, it’s not just rap all around that I’m hating on! I’ve listened to some great fucking rap. Take roses, it’s a jam but then you remember it’s about some girls fucking pu$$y… like what. My favorite things remix from sound of music was kinda fun.

Okay - a couple of hits that I think are okay. But I just don’t like hiphop enough to want to listen by free will. The Music never touches me the way that other genres do

Not my thing

I'm really not sure what this is... Very strange. Although there are several familiar songs that I did enjoy.

Too long. Knew 3-4 of the songs but too long

я хорошо отношусь к ауткаст, но идея двойного альбома - по сольнику каждому - хуевая. овер 2часа перенасыщенного музла. все таки ребята заебись дают баланс друг другу. я просто заебался это слушать

Not my genre

the second album was so much better. both grrovy doe. loved da interludes and such

Heeeey heya heeeyaaa Leider keis vo dene albe wo ich mag vu outcast. Han hüt mal usnahmswiis frei gha, und ha mich gar nöd chöne demit abfinde das albummm z lose. Weder zum chille, nah zum staubsuugeee.

Disliked the skits and a lot of the interludes. I went into it only knowing the singles that came from this album, but I've found another couple bangers. However, once I realized that the album was over two hours long, I checked out.

Not for me thanks

Not my cup of tea

Some killer, too much filler.

Some of this is okay but it is just too long to keep me interested. 2 stars or D+.

Fun in sections but goes on way too long.

No, I don't get it. Again just absolutely annoying. A couple good songs but listening to this as whole makes me want to jam pencils in my ears. And it's about an hour and a half too long

I’m not a fan of most of the lyrics.

too long

Came to this with a bad outlook but its better than expected. Everytime they sang ~speakerbox~ was fun. Ok the vibe change between sides? Oh yea we know Hey Ya!

It's ok, not my kinda thing but ok. High 2.

Why can’t a single song on this record decide which genre it is?

can't listen to all of it. got enough of it to get a grasp of them. they got a few hits i know but apart from those, there's nothing that would keep me from skipping that band

Hey Ya and Caroline are still great songs, but the rest of this album was very much not

Not a classic

Just doesn’t speak to me

Some good / iconic tunes but ultimately not for me

# Album Name: Speakerbox - Love below # Artist: Outkast # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Honestly, wtf is wrong with these people who think double albums are a good idea? For me this was extremely painful. 2 hours and 15 minutes. honestly, that is mental. Theres too many shitty skits. What the F is it with these skits and rap albums. I mean, what is the point. There must be 30 mins of skits on this thing. OK, thats an exaggeration, but theres a lot. It literally brings no value to an album imo. I would have gave this album a 1. However, Hey ya is a standout 5/5 track. That song was everywhere back in the day and rightly so. Its was a cracker. This saved the album and bumped it to a 2. # Top Tunes: Hey ya # Would I listen to it again? god no.

Not for me at all. There's the very odd (in both senses) moment of - of clarity, I suppose, of a simple melody sung in a straightforward and unembellished manner. I enjoyed those bits, but the rest of the album doesn't do anything for me. It's inventive, though, I'll give it that, and wildly eclectic.

A smattering of good tracks - Hey Ya, The Way You Move and maybe Roses. Not a great ratio for a 40 track collection. Even though it gets very eclectic, something about OutKast’s style I find very tacky and annoying and too often the songs just sound ghastly. 2.5 stars.

Pretty fun

Not my genre. There are some great things here but a lot that bores me, and the interludes really dragged me down.

Beginnt schnell, wird dann aber zu funky.

I always knew this was a double album but this one felt long!

Overalll, not too bad but I am not really into that kind of rap music, although that was popular at around that time. I was disappointed that the album was 2+ hours and had 2 Discs but I had it playing in the background. Then things turned into jazz at some point and after that - just weird stuff, where you weren't even sure what you were listening to anymore. The weird stuff was better than the beginning of the album, and the whole thing was decent while playing in the background, but overall a bit meh.

Not whay I was expecting. To be honest it was a pretty good album. W

Way too long. Good range of styles, but ultimately just couldn’t wait for this to be done

Not my cup of tea.

At last! A hip-hop album from after 1992 that actually sounds quite original! Phew! Sadly it's over an hour too long. Boo! Does take more than half an hour for all the n*****s and p***y and b*****s to appear so that's nice. It's still not very amazing, but it's less bad than a lot of the rest. I listened to it all in one go and now I would like my saturday afternoon back. I've mentioned time a lot in this review. Temporally challenging.

Outkast is the greatest hip-hop duo of all time, Aquemini is top 5 all time album for me. But Stankonia was the last album from them, I enjoyed. This was bloated, and lacked the same energy as and swagger as the their previous albums. Some bangers for sure, but not the same love.

2 hours too long. Lacks focus and interest. But, on the upside, it does finally end.

I’m not listening to 2 hours of OutKast bruh

Very long with very few highlights, Hey ya can't carry 40 mediocre songs

To long. Got bored. Like some of the music, the rapping not so much. 2/5.

Too long, too self-indulgent.

This album won a Grammy for Album of the year, which goes to show how irrelevant the Grammys are and how absolutely awful the state of pop music was. I remain astonished by the way critics fall over themselves to laud stuff like: Better come back down to Mars Girl, quit chasing cars What happens when the dough gets low Bitch, you ain't that fine, no way, no way, no way Better come back down to Mars Girl, quit chasing cars What happens when the dough gets low Bitch, you ain't that fine, no way, no way, no way [Outro: Big Boi] Crazy bitch Crazy bitch Crazy bitch Crazy bitch Crazy bitch Crazy bitch Crazy bitch (Bitch) Crazy bitch (Stupid-ass bitch) Crazy bitch (Old punk-ass bitch) Crazy bitch (Old dumb-ass bitch) Crazy bitch Nice. "Hey Ya!" is a fun song, but it's not as praiseworthy as many made this out to be. Mostly weak rap tropes and computer-generated, dirty R & B. The little 'chp chp chp' sounds and fake handclaps (I know, they make them sound even more artificial than they need to be for interest) are just on the cringey side of annoying. Still looking for the "conscious" rap here, maybe self-conscious, because it certainly is that. Like you're Gil-Scott Heron? Overrated hype train with no redeeming value except for the single. Way too long, took me three days to finish it and I felt like I needed a shower afterwards. 1 star for SpeakerBox, 1 star for the OH SO SUBTLE Love Below.

Speakerboxxx was ok, but The Love Below was not for me 2/5

I’m sorry but I’m not listening to an album that’s longer than an hour, unless it’s Taylor Swift.

Não consegui ouvir inteiro. Não porque as músicas são necessariamente ruins, mas elas não me pegaram, achei cansativo de ouvir. Fora isso, ele é extremamente longo. Uma versão com metade das música ou menos seria o suficiente.

Sadly, even with what feels like three days worth of music, this album has not changed my opinion that Outkast are one of the most overrated hip hop acts going.

I like this more than I thought I would but it's still not my taste.

Not terribly interesting music.

Not my sort of thing.. it may be good if you like that.. but to me.. it's just noise.

Outcast albums always a handful of good songs and the rest is disposable.

It's OK in places, cheesy in others. It's way too long and just not my thing, but better than most stuff of this type. 2

The first half is a 1 the second half is a 3. Sorry just not my thing.

There are some good songs here but waaaaaay toooooo long

Not really my taste of music, quite a long album. That being said, a few obvious bangers (Hey Ya!, Roses and The Rooster) and quite comedic interludes (Good Day, Good Sir).

Sekava kokonaisuus minusta, vaikka rakkausteema pysyy ja speakerbox muistetaan heittää väliin. Toki taitavaa räppiä ja featit istuu hyvin mukaan. Vähän vain tylsistyttää, kun jatkuu ja jatkuu eikä tule huippukohtia. Saksofoni välillä.

I can appreciate what it is but just couldn’t get into it. It’s also over 2 hours long.

It was okay

Too much hip hop for me

I'm not a huge fan. But it did have some 90's memorable hooks.

Not me at all.

Viel zu langes Hip Hop Album mit einigen hörbaren Passagen aber auch ganz viel Mist. Einige der 40 Stücke haben ein wenig Musikgehalt (z. b. „Love In War“ & „Take Off You Cool“) aber es gibt keine Song denn ich noch mal hören will. Dar schönste Song war der letze, weil danach musste ich nicht mehr skippen.

It took me way too long to finish this album. Hey ya is a tailgate staple...but I wasn't impressed by much of this.

Together Outkast created a lot of unforgettable hip hop. Andre 3k seemed to get most of the attention but this album shows Bog Boi deserved way more credit. His piece of the album is still fun to listen to but Andre 3k’s mostly sounds goofy and desperate. This album is too long, the skits/intros are unnecessary, and it’s certainly not a masterpiece like people claim. Nostalgia doesn’t equal greatness. Speakerboxx alone would have got a 4 but as a whole this one gets a 2.

There are a few tracks on here that are excellent, but the vast majority are horrible extremely profane exercises in debasement. And at 2 hours and 15 minutes length that’s simply too much negativity for me. I deducted a star for that touching moment he gets a toddler to say MFer….very classy.