Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

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.

The early 2000's radio stations ruined this album for me.

Back in the day, I preferred the love below. I now emphatically think it sucks. Dragged this down from a 3-4 rating.

4.82/10 Top 3 Songs 1. Bowtie (feat. Sleepy Brown & Jazze Pha) 2. Unhappy 3. The Rooster

Too long. Would have enjoyed it a lot more if half the tracks were cut from it.

Too long, but enjoyed some of it

I almost like this. Interesting collaborations, intriguing beats, and a good flow. But I don't. It's just a bit too discordant and noisy, shouty and aggressive, and full of random noises that make it sound a bit weird and over engineered. I did enjoy Flip Flop Rock and The Way You Move, but there were also some self-indulgent, artsy efforts like 'Where Are My Panties' which I don't think add anything of value to the album. Very varied and diverse, but it didn't chime with me, and by the end of the second hour I was just waiting for it to end.

I love Outkast but ehhhhh

Not terrible, but waaaaaay too long. I would have given this a 3 or maybe a 4 if it was half the length

Mmm lo intenté 3 veces..no pude

There's a lot about this album that is done well and I enjoyed it, although the double-solo-album format makes it much too long. Speakerboxxx has a lot of P-Funk influence which I really like, it shifts through several different styles pretty seamlessly. Top scores for creativity and depth on disc 1. The Love Below however, is a bit of a letdown. I really love Andre but this was just indulgent and juvenile. It takes the album down a notch, regardless of all the hits. There are good songs but I don't like the character skits between them all and I wouldn't play disc 2 again. Still gotta appreciate their individual talents and this avant-soul concept. Not as bad as ya'll made it out to be.

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this. Speakerboxx had a handful of upbeat tracks that I enjoyed. Overall I liked it more than the more experimental The Love Below. The entire package is too long as a 2+ hour listen is a tall order. However I respect the art and what they were going for on the project. Not something I'll likely go back to but I might throw an OutKast shuffle on for the right occasion which would hopefully include a few tracks from this double album. The hits from this album definitely have staying power as I still go back to them from time to time. This was my first exposure to the full project and I'm glad I listened to it. I feel like OutKast was everywhere for a couple years following Stankonia and Speakerboxx/Love Below and I now have a better sense for why. 2.2 stars

Double album of Hip Hop is not my dream day. I knew a few tracks - Hey Ya is unavoidable - and excellent. My Favourite Things was fun, like the jazzy take. But the rest of the album - did not enjoy. Don't ever need to hear the skits. Can get why you'd like this if you were into HipHop - there's a lot of variety. Not me though, 2 hours was a slog.

Not fronting, I am not much of a hip hop fan. So, this double album was too self indulgent for me to care much. Required way too much patience from me. I respect that this is someone's favorite album/albums of all time, but to me it doesn't belong on this list. I sensed these were concept albums, but for the life of me I couldn't figure them out without studying the lyrics, and I am not about to read the lyrics of a 2 hour 15 minute long opus. I was unable to relate to the lyrics that I could make out. I think it was cheeky humor, but who knows? They kind of felt like soundtracks for a pair of "In Living Color" sketch comedy films that I never saw. Not fun, mostly just an endurance race. I enjoyed the instrumentation more than the lyrics. If I had to choose one of these albums over the other, I lean towards The Love Below more than Speakerboxx, but that could just be because I have more familiarity with jazz, and I found the jazzy, bluesy exploration of melody and harmony compositionally more fun than Speakerboxx's more straight southern hip hop, which has never been my jam. I did not particularly like any of the singles. My favorite track was the jazz hop instrumental cover of "My Favorite Things" from the musical broadway show, The Sound of Music, using, I think, samples of John Coltrane's My Favorite Things album from 1960.

Seems very long, but I suppose it is two albums in one. The first album has intros and interludes, which I always enjoy in an album. So far I feel like the first half would be good as like music whilst doing things or like background music to a dinner or something maybe. Super chill vibes. It really is oh so very long though. Probably wouldn't listen to it again, but would potentially play it as some background music.

Quite funny - not more ;-)

Het eerste uur is echt korvee. Altijd maar dat voortkabbelend geouwehoer, doe me een lol. Een vastgemetseld ritmetje dat maar door blijft gaan, met oersaai geklets eroverheen. De ellende, sodeju. Ik wil muziek! En dan op 56 minuten komt er een of ander orkest het podium opgeschoven, en is muziek zowaar wat je krijgt. Experimentele jazz met een metalgitaar, funk, wat gefluister en zowaar een leuke hit. Veel beter. Maar nog steeds aan de lange kant. Conclusie: dit album had gewoon in tweeën gesplitst moeten worden, zoals oorspronkelijk ook de bedoeling was. En dan deel 1 weglaten. En uit deel 2 even nog wat dingen schrappen (onder andere ook hier het geklets). Dan had deel 2 nog wel vier sterren kunnen krijgen. Nu wordt het luisterplezier teveel verstoord door alle overbodige ongein.

I really liked some of these songs in college, now they're barely listenable. Akso, I remember being pissed that these were two solo albums (how can you even call that Outkast). Speakerboxx: 2/5 Love Below: 3/5 All other real Outkast albums that came before this: 5/5

could be better…i only listened to the first few songs but i knew it wasn’t my vibe. sometimes i like rap/hip hop but imo it wasn’t done well. some harmonies just didn’t fit. the rhythms were off sometimes

You've just got to be kidding - more rap *sigh*? I hate it. This is getting ridiculous. In fairness, some of this is just 'meh', but most of it is just plain offensive.

Too long

2 heures et quelques, c’est beaucoup trop. La moitié des morceaux sont des espèces de sketch, des dialogues, des machins qui ne servent pas à grand chose. La partie Speakerboxxx (Big Boi) est plus correcte, hip hop bien produit mais lassant à la longue. Toujours pas quelque chose que j’écouterai volontiers mais bon. Pourquoi pas “Ghettomusic”. Par contre la partie “The Love Below” (André 3000) est plus souvent quelconque, parfois désagréable en partant dans plein de directions inutiles (y a du jazz fusion avec “My Favorite Things”…) entre deux interludes foireux... Éventuellement “Roses” parce que ça parle de poopoo (lol), “Take off your cool” assez simple. Et au milieu il y a “Hey Ya!” qui restera cool. Finalement au lieu d’un double album un simple single aurait pu suffire.

Not really my thing

Hip hop, but had some interesting instrumentals (acoustic guitar, some orchestral) and good vocals harmonies

This started as a promising 3-or-4-star listening experience, but it quickly became a slog to get through. Sure, there’s variety (especially if you’re a hip-hop fan), but any album longer than two hours is going to drain the listener of enjoyment regardless of content. Couple that with my not being a fan of the genre or music era, and you have a recipe for disaster. The album is somewhat salvaged by the backing vocals, horns, and relatively hit-or-miss percussion (the percussion has to be really incredible to make up for the fact that it’s non-acoustic). The second disc is noticeably better than the first, incorporating more singing and elements of rock and jazz, but it still suffers from the overbloating problem; there are plenty of lesser songs that could be left off the record. Cut every interlude and about half the remaining tracks on each disk, and you have a result worthy of its “classic” status. Some tracks that should be left in, primarily for their fun instrumentals and singing rather than rapping, include GhettoMusick, The Way You Move, The Rooster, Happy Valentine's Day, Love Hater, and of course the genuinely great Hey Ya!

2h15 lo escuché en su época y solo recuerdo "Hey ya" (que además siguen machacando en las radio fórmula). No lo he escuchado entero (creo que es de los primeros que no oigo de los más de 500 que llevo ya).

Not the kind of music I like

Listened in two days, tough, genre has to grow on me.

Good beats, not a fan of the lyrics.

It was ok. I like Andre 3000s style but nothing overall special for me.

Not my fave

3 Metà album fa per me L’altra metà no

Only liked the popular songs that were released as singles.

Ok. Not my style of music.

2 hrs and 15 min of hip hop. Oh yay (sarcasm). But the whole point of this thing is to get exposed to new (to me) music. So, let’s dig in…. Looking at Wikipedia, this is basically 2 solo albums from the 2 members of OutKast. I guess that’s why it’s so long? Breaking it down: Speaker box: starting w/ hip-hop isn’t my thing…. In that context, this album isn’t 1/2 bad. There’s a lot of 70’s funk feel in a lot of it, only moderately diminished but the synthetic rhythm section, this works pretty well. Too much of the vocals are still the “how many words can you jam into a phrase”, but they’re not every song is seething anger, which I appreciate. Still, there’s some songs that I don’t like, and there’s a lot more “n-word” posturing. I expected to hate this but don’t mind a lot of it. Still, at 56+ minutes, it’s just WAY too much. I had to take a break at 45 minutes, only about 1/3 through the whole set. A couple of these songs would fit fine on a playlist, but sheesh. 2.5/5.0 The Love Below: this one sounds a little more “organic”, at least a little. And perhaps more pop, than pure funk. But on the whole, not as interesting. I’ll rate this 2/5…. At best. When I started listening to this, I was thinking sold 3. But as it went on and on (and on), the rating went down and down (and down). Especially the second album. We’ll settle in at 2/5 though, because there were 3-4 songs towards the beginning that were pretty good.

y’all don’t wanna hear me you just wanna dance

Not awful but not my favorite. 2 of 5

worst length ive ever seen. (interlude) only hey ya (interlude) and Roses (lil big man intro) (interlude)

Oh man… 39 tracks? Who thought that was a good idea? I get that it’s a double album… but leave it at that. Keep them split. Oh well. The only OutKast song I’m familiar with is Hey Ya, and I enjoy it, so I’ll give this one a shot. Thankfully it popped up right before the weekend, as I’ll have to split this one over a couple days. Favorite tracks: Last Call and Hey Ya!

Small 3 or big 2

Generally not a fan of hip hop but I didn't completely hate it. I enjoyed the songs on the second half more than the first half. Fav songs: I Like the Way you Move, Hey Ya, Bowtie, Roses

This journey blesses us now with 2 albums in one. To be honest, this fact surely damaged the experience and the rating. These albums are an compulsory stop in the journey from classic hip-hop to the sounds we are used to today. OutKast starts with an uplifting and groovy sound in "Speakerboxxx*, while "The Love Below" starts with a more seductive vibe. I am personally more of a fan of the first project. But then, the major hit "Hey Ya!" works a breaking point to change the vibe in the second album. For a long listen, it was easy. Also, I would like to appreciate the more than welcome appearances of Jay Z, Killer Mike and Lil' Jon. It is always a pleasure.

Too long and too much shit In between the few good songs

Liked most of speakerboxxx, disliked most of the love below, 2 hours is too long, points off for skits

Respectfully, two hours is a long time to listen to anything, especially if it’s not your cup of tea. There are some songs I like mixed in with a lot I didn’t.

It was an interesting album. Much longer than my liking but it was all over the place in terms of theme. I did like a few but with that many songs, I would hope some were good.

Pretos.lol

As a hip hop fan, it really makes me sad this is a 2. I really wanted to like it but it is far too bloated.

Way too long

Great for its time

Oh boy you're in for one of the longest albums in your life, it would have been great if it were good but alas i'm not that fucking lucky.

40 tracks is insane even for a double album. Second half is much better than the first.

This album was way too long and incoherent, Hey Ya! rules but that’s the only track I’d go back to

That was kinda... a lot. Kinda too much.

A double album often means double the dread. The fear of how much time I'm going to need to invest in a single day to unpack all the tracks and form some kind of an opinion on it. Throw on top of that we're talking about a group that's unafraid of skits and other interludes a person can become quite daunted quickly. Good thing for me that I own this record already. ;) Someone else with greater powers of pithy summarization will come along and say something succinct. They'll impart a bunch of wisdom while displaying their impressive wit. Me? I'm here to say: it's uneven at best. The best songs totally slap and all that but you have to put up with a lot of other tracks where you can tell that OutKast was at a point in their career and popularity that they lacked a person between them or in their inner circle who could successfully wield the editing pen. It's always a bit of a let down when you hear a ~40 track double album that feels like it drags in places and you know it could've made a classic, all-time great record with 12 tracks.

Prefer the Big Boi material over the Andre 3000 side. Sprawling and ambitious which I respect and both are talented. But it sounds too busy and all over the place. Didn't click with me.

Meh.

I struggled with this. Sounds ok, but didn't click

This sounds like teenagers that got ahold of expensive recording gear somehow and spent a month jerking off in the studio. It doesn't sound bad, it's just not very good.

Like the way you move hey ya roses life in a day

The second album was a lot better. I appreciated the variety, but wow this was too much for me. Some good moments, but I don’t really like hip hop so it was hard to get through

Too long and filled with not good songs, but the highlights are really good

The first part sucked. The second part was a little better with some enjoyable moments. As an album it was way too long

This was way too long, and not that fun.

I actually didn't mind Speakerboxxx but the whole double album thing was such a slog. And the Love Below really sucked.

An argument for those who feel that double albums would really be better as a single album. It's good but there's so much fluff that is masquerading as songs. So much editing needed. Best Tracks: I Like The Way You Move (feat. Sleepy Brown); Hey Ya!; Roses

Had this sprawling beast on CD - you only ever listen to the Shake it and Way You Move tracks - the rest is just nurdling tomfoolery

Enjoyable in parts but unbelievably too long

Overall fine, but not sure any individual song was above a 3

Im not a fan of this album. its good but it's not my style my favourite song off of this is hey ya but otherwise not the easiest listen 2/5 i had to skip the rest of the album after behold a lady i just cant do it anymore

The music doesn't interest me at all and it was a challenge to listen to the whole thing. I lost the challenge after about an hour and a half and had to turn it off. Self indulgent and boring are just two of the words that come to mind. No.

A hip hop album with horns.

I'm pleased that I started to play these albums early in the morning. Two hours is a lot of music to take on board. It was too much for me. I sometimes struggle with all three Sandinista albums in one sitting. Apologies, but I bailed at track 9. It offered up some hip hop humour and honesty, but it wasn't enough. I prefer UK hip hop.

Not a fan.

It’s actually ok but really not my scene at all.

I liked the first half better, which is surprising since I really like Hey Ya. Overall was just okay and clearly too long.

Hey Ya is of course a brilliant song but good lord this does not justify its run time

Voor het luisteren: Ik ben groot hiphop liefhebber maar Outkast vind ik lastig. De hitjes vind ik leuk, maar verder snap ik niet waarom mensen het geniaal vinden. Tijdens Speakerboxxx: Ik vind de stijl niet fijn. Veel beats en geluiden irriteren me (net als de interlude/skits), de stemmen zijn slecht gemixt en niet goed te volgen, de meeste nummers zijn erg vergeetbaar. Zelfs als je dit deel los ziet van The Love Below is het met 56 minuten al aan de lange kant. Het laatste kwartier van dit album vond ik het leukst, vanaf track 14 tot het einde. Tijdens The Love Below: Klinkt alsof Dreeke3000 eigenlijk liever een musical-komediefilm had gemaakt. Zeker de eerste 7 tracks hadden in z'n geheel op de snijtafel mogen achterblijven. Het meeste klinkt wel aardig en muzikaal (vooral lekkere basslijntjes), maar 78 minuten is veel te langdradig voor dit. Teveel in zichzelf gaan geloven. Na het luisteren: Bij Outkast had ik altijd al het idee dat ze een grap maken die iedereen in de groep snapt behalve ik en dat is eigenlijk niet veranderd. In mijn ogen overschat. Kort dit album met minimaal de helft in en ik geef 3 sterren, maar as is worden het er 2.

i was freaking out, it's even long

Not for me

I prefer Andre 3000's The Love Below, by far, to Big Boi's contribution. But 40 damn songs? Come on guys, learn to edit, ffs.

It’s a lot of hip hop for one man

Oh my god, over two hours?!?! I don’t have the stamina for this, it’s Christmas Day for Christ’s sake. Obviously Hey Ya! and I Like The Way You Move are excellent fun time party songs. The rest, meh.

Oh my god this album is soooo long it started in the second Obama administration. It's so long Britain has had four prime ministers (actually that'd be true of The Ramones) before side two. There are other long albums I like, but there just so many skits, filler and so on that the album of corking material is quite lost. I have this and after listening to again am ripping and recycling. So this works both ways I guess.

p892. 2003. 1.5 stars Hip-hop/rap, so wrong audience. Limited talent spread too thinly over a double album. Pass.

Well that was long

God that was painful. Endless brainless album that I never want to listen again. Once was way enough and I even had to do it in two sittings.

Cut 35 songs - do a EP and then I might gave it a 3 stars. Way tooooooo long..

It was ENDLESS.

Wow... this is so uneven. Hey Ya is incredible and there are several other songs that feel like fully fleshed out idea... unfortunately so much of this double album sounds like one experiment after another. not really a full song, but an idea that might become a song, but they put it down anyway. Some of the later tracks (e.g. My Favorite Things) are also a pretty challenging listen. I wanted to like this more, but by the end i was so happy it was finally over.

Wow, two albums for the price of one. What a steal. I envy people who can somehow focus on a 2+ hour long album without having it turn into a mush of background noise. André 3000's "The Love Below" was generally more of my cup of tea, but even then.. the final 6 tracks or so were just an endurance test. Remember in school when we would all think "Ah, 30 more minutes of class left.. just gotta get through 10 minutes three times. I can do that" This album is the musical form of that. Speakerboxxx: 2/5 The Love Below: 3/5 Together as a front-to-back album experience, I'll stick with a 2/5.

First disc is better than the second, not my favourite, but not bad.

2/5 only a handful of top notch songs

Dit is geen hey-yah. (Geintje die staat er wel op) Maar bigboy hiphop en daar ben ik niet zo'n fan van. Toeters tussendoor ben ik wel fan van. Hey-yah Roses <3 Rest = meh

The singles off this album are strong but there isn't a lot else here, and most of everything interesting is on Andre's side. In over 2 hours of music, I expected a lot more. If you've heard "Hey Ya" then you've heard the best this double album has to offer, unfortunately.

Bem anos 2000! :-) Lembro que o Connan Mockasin falou que a única influência dele é Outkast.

i think this record is probably better than i think it is but it just doesn't do it for me, too jokey and not enough heart

I was familiar with "The Way You Move" and "Hey Ya." Not a big fan of hip hop and thought this double album was too long.

Good album very fun not a masterpiece by any means but good fun

Two hours? Nah, not into it. Can't exactly put my finger on why I don't like OutKast but there seems something grubby about them. Probably that "shit don't stank" line on 'Roses'. Grubby. The flow is great when it happens, but the beats feel cheesy and overproduced and the choruses miss more often than hit. I need to listen to their earliest stuff and see if that moves me. But this was a big wad of no for me. And don't get me started on that steamroller beat over 'My Favorite Things'. Maybe it's the drums I dislike most actually. Whatever, not a great experience.

some legendary songs but a lot of filler early 00s noise. bit of a slog to get through but I admire the effort. wasn't expecting a jazzy DnB interlude. 2.5/5

An absolutely exhausting double LP. Struggles to fill the time with interesting melodic ideas and bars for even one hour, much less two - some production ideas are interesting, but the absolutely limpid vocal delivery (save for some great guest features like Killer Mike) just makes this an absolute battle to finish.

This recommendation almost isn't fair... a FULL double album. OutKast are talented and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is an ambitious and impressive production. There is some interesting music on this album, but as a whole I did not enjoy listening to the album. The lyrics (words and general content) are not for me.

Fine. Quirky

Got about halfway through before giving up.

Intro meh GhettoMusick 1.5/5 Unhappy 3/5 Bowtie 2/5 The Way You Move 2/5 The Rooster 2.5/5 Bust 1.5/5 War 3.5/5 Church 2.5/5 Bamboo (interlude) wtf Tomb of the Boom 2/5 E-Mac (interlude) no Knowing 2.5/5

I really didn't enjoy this. Extra star for an all-time banger.

As much as Outkast are a nostalgia hit for me, this album is too long

who has 2 hours for 40 outkast tracks? like a good football team the sum of the parts is better than the individuals. outkast together was decent. outkast split in half both producing albums and somehow gaffa taping them together is just self indulgent and crap. still hey ya brings takes me back to the heady days of uni.

Oh yeah, this separate double album thing they did. I'm not listening to 2 hours' worth. Andre 3000s was better.

GhettoMusick is pretty good, I don't really like the slow bits though. Last Call is alright. Hey Ya is fun. WAY too much filler, this would have felt like a much better album if it was like 40-50 minutes instead of 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Massive double album with a few great songs and a lot of filler.

Honestly may have enjoyed this more if it wasn't so GO DAMN LONG. 2hrs 15 min is just too much and a lot of it just passed me by and felt generic. Obviously a couple of recognisable bangers... but not enough to offset the rest of this. Explanation: My colleague told me this one is so long because at the time Andre 3000 and Big Boi weren't getting on and refused to collaborate very much on the album, but were obliged to because of their commitments to their label. So instead they just did one disc each ha! Which is why it is Speakerboxxx/The Low Below. Literally just two albums dumped together

You could take 80 minutes off this and it would still be too fat

Holy cow, what a long album. I don't have the energy to write up comments on all ~40 songs, so I'll just sort of give an overview once I'm done listening. Speakerboxxx was fine. I'm not really well versed in rap, nor do I listen to it much, but I thought all the beats were fantastic! I didn't love the vocals for the most part, but there were some moments in some songs that had absolutely fantastic rhymes. Gotta say, did not expect to hear Lil Jon on this. The Love Below was also fine. Honestly, some of the vocals were fun, but overall this record was just not my taste. I can see why it would be on the list, but I don't think I'll be revisiting this any time soon.

I prefer not to speak. If i speak i am in big trouble

I quite enjoyed Ms Jackson when that came out and I was aware of Hey Ya! and Roses from this release. I really thought I might dig it but man it's a hard slog getting through these songs, especailly The Love Below. Faves: GhettoMusick, She's Alive, My Favorite Things

Wanted to like this more. Double albums are a huge turnoff in this project, but pushed through. Speakerboxxx felt like I couldn’t hear the vocals. The Love Below was better but mostly because of the instrumentals.

Enorme, ficou tocando e nem percebi os hits.

If this was just one album split in half, probably a three stars but this is just too much. Some good stuff in here but it’s a lot SORRY

Gewoon helemaal gedraaid! Omdat het me niet stoorde, maar zeker niet omdat ik het zo'n boeiend plaatje vond. Meh!

'Hey ya' vind ik een topplaat, de rest vind ik tamelijk nietszeggend.

the musical equivalent of corn syrup

As the title and album art implies, this is really two separate albums. Speakerboxxx is by Big Boi and The Love Below is by Andre 3000. The two albums are very different, almost contrasting, and it is difficult to see how they work together. You may put one or the other on depending on your mood, but it is difficult to think of circumstances where you would listen to both back-to-back (unless you are on a voyage to listen to the '1001 albums you must hear before you die' before you die, of course). Based on the write-ups, I had expected to prefer The Love Below, however, my experience was the opposite. Speakerboxx is a catchy, melodic, high energy, and fun hip hop album. I enjoyed this a lot and struggle to think of a hip hop album that I have enjoyed more than this. 3 3.5/5 The Love Below is high energy and a mish-mash of styles which is fun with some cool high points (including Heat Ya!), but the overall effect is quite jarring. 2.5/5. Together this gives an average of 3/5, however, I'm knocking a point off for the two halves not really working together. I'd like to know how this came to be one Outcast album rather than two solo albums or two separate Outcast releases. 2/5

4/10 Best Song - Flip Flop Rock

There are actually a few decent tracks on here, but the running time is in no way justified.

I don't like interludes. Some jams.

The hit songs are great but the rest are just ok. It's a long album to get through when most songs are just ok.

No album needs to be over 2 hours long. There's so much filler as well

It's alright, but not really my cup of tea.

The hip hop for white critics

2/5 naaah

Mmm Hey Ya, but wierd mix.

Interesting. Not a big rap fan but I was pleasantly surprised at the variety of genres present on this album.

didn't like it, could have easily been a single album, can't believe people will complain that jazz is the musician self-indulging but would listen to 2 discs of this