Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Speakerboxxx Speakerboxxx has enough fun and funky raps to make me like it a lot. **** I don't like the poppier, bloopier sounds of The Love Below so much. It's still good, but Speakerboxx overshadows it for me. *** Overall still ****

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

Preferred Speakerboxxx over The Love Below. But mostly a cool album

Speakerboxxx wasn't as good as The Love Below, but is still damn good. Both discs went on a bit long for me.

I think I like the first side more than the second but The Love Below does have certified bangers

The Speakerboxx half i really did not enjoy, the Love below was far better but did honestly trail off towards the end

A classic. I love OutKast, definitely an inspiration to many artists of this generation.

actually not bad i lvoe the album cover and the divide between each disc, being very hip hop centric and very playful in the second disc. will give outkast and this album too, another listen in the future

listened only the first half :/

Soooooooooooooooo looooooooooooooong.

This was great, I enjoyed this a lot. Two separate solo albums combined in one is super ambitious, but I think it's awesome that OutKast pulled it off. A lot of bangers on these albums. I love Big Boi's flow.

Clever rhymes and some catchy beats and melodies.

Too ghetto for me. ★★

2 hours? Pass.

This could have been one fantastic album instead of two albums with some bangers and lots of filler.

some absolute bangers but over-all eh

Southern hip-hop, progressive rap, funk, jazz, pop, progressive soul, psychedelia.

Speaker box 4 maybe 5 stars The love below. Honestly. Probably 2. Averages out at 3

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.

Glad to finally listen to all of this. And it is very long. Too long. But there are moments. I've seen people say that you could cut this down and it would make a good 45 minute album, and I do agree. But, that would take away from what this was trying to be. But I dont know. Outkast was always best when you had the "normal" rapper Big Boi and the weirdo Andre 3000, but that also takes away from how weird Big Boi could be, and how hard A3K could go. I do think that they do themselves a bit of a disservice with the two record concept, but still, Big Boi made a pretty great rap album, and Andre made a really great Andre album. So, definitely some conflicting feelings. It was long though.

Decent. Reminds me of the good times

great use of "pop" folley in bowtie. for this alone a 5. could really visualise the chewing noises in Bust. apricated the shout out to Cpt Picard in flip flop. kinda fizzled out.

Banging

Two fantastic separate double albums bundled up as one. Club banger after banger on Speakerbox with drum and bass influence and the more laid back sexy, jazzy, lovey dovey Love Below. Both are easy 4/5 albums individually only let down by some annoying skits

neither as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue, to different degrees (Speakerboxxx: 3 / The Love Below: 2)

This doesn't really work as a double album. Despite what Big Boi says " OutKast, Cell Therapy to cell division/We done split it down the middle so you can see both the visions/Been spitting it damn near 10 years, why the fuck would we be quitting?" These two visions don't really match up at all. Even still, both of these albums are excellent on their own, and either one would be deserving of this ranking on its own.

Long, but wide variety of everything. Bigger fan of earlier albums but the hits were popular and I still rock some of these jams 20+ years later.

Overall, it’s about as good as I expected it to be. I love Hey ya, and there were a couple other really good songs on here. Some examples are: Unhappy, Love Hater, Prototype, Love in War, and My Favorite Things. Nothing bad on here, but a few skips. At the end of the day, 40 songs is way too many, 3.8/5! (PS: Andre 3k got a bit too freaky like what was he thinking with some of these?)

I don’t think I will return to this album, but it was an interesting listen and I was impressed by the stylistic variety and adventurous spirit.

sorry miss jackson oooooo i am for reallll 👩🏻‍🎤

This is an absolute riot. What a fun album. Full of bangers and interesting sounds and comedic gold. Some of it had me bursting out laughing, and even in the silliest songs, I found myself genuinely having a great time. There's certainly some extra bulk here - i don't believe it needed to be over 2 hours long - but the majority of the tracks had something unique and enjoyable about them. One of my favorite experiences so far! 9/10

This is such a fun and joyful album, with such a diversity of influences from across funk/jazz/rap. I really loved Big Boi's side, especially Bow Tie, which is a hilarious song. Unhappy is also a great track. Crazy trivia that Rosa Parks sued them over this album. Takes me back to high school.

アルバムの長さにより完全に飽きてしまったけど知ってる曲が入ってて楽しかった。

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.

Mostly brilliant album. TLB is indulgent and sex-obsessed, detracting from the whole. Big Boi's album is sheer brilliance.

Classic but something about it wasn’t hitting for me as much as I anticipated

Usually when I start an album, I start when I get out of bed and I'm done by the time I go on my lunch break. Today I got out of bed listening to Outkast and went to bed listening to Outkast. That's really my only gripe about the album. It's a marathon length at over two hours. Most of the songs are pretty good, with enough really great songs to keep you engaged throughout. But there were times when I would glance over at the track list and groan. I feel like this could have been a truly legendary album if it was trimmed down a bit. There's some really cool stuff here, too. Some experimental beats with drum'n'bass, some R&B and jazz elements, as well as some genre-defying hip-hop. It's a landmark album and there's truly nothing else like it. I really liked "Bowtie" and "Roses."

106. she lives in my lapp

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

A double album that instead of pitting against provides insight into two very different approaches to music. Big boi is more traditional with rap and guest spots by tons of huge names. There are some unique songs that kind of move away from the normal rap sound but for the most part it is grounded in a more acceptable “rap album” vibe. While Andre’s half is more like an experiment into rnb pop rap. There are some extremely strange songs on his half where you can tell he was trying to do something completely unique. I wonder how much influence they had on eachothers halves or if it was a more separate project. As with a double album it is extremely long and you basically have to devote an afternoon to listen from front to back. Both sides have some big hits with Hey Ya being the phenomenon. I actually got the cd set when I was a kid because I loved Hey Ya so much. My parents scrubbed through the album emitting songs that were to above my age group which with this listen made me realize I missed out on a lot of the songs. While I think Big Boi’s side has some great hits, I think Andre’s side has withstood time better with how unique it is. 10/10

So as this is a double album I will divide my evaluation: Speakerboxxx The project of Big Boi is more rap oriented but there are some killer melodies that do improve the rhythm and the atmosphere of the album. The Way You Move is the highlight, as it is also a single, and the first half is stronger than the second half, as I struggled to listen to it intently. It is a strong album, but I also struggle to grasp what is magical about it. .. The Love Below The project of Andre 3000 got more mainstream and I remember how iconic Hey Ya! and Roses were to my generation, however, the album is lost in the weird narrative Andre is trying to convince the listener. So Speakerboxx is a better album but overall I will give it a 3/5, good project but way too long.

Just awful 1

First half is good, great even. Second half spent all of it's cool points on two songs.

3 good songs

I haven’t listened to this full album in years, I was surprised by how much was unfamiliar while others stood out.

Fun, wide variety of sounds.

I am biased here. I love Outkast. They pushed hip hop from the south at a time it was east vs west. They rewrote the ideas of rap at the time. This album is another way they changed the way you think of hip hop. I remember when it was released we were talking about how they made two double albums and then combined them. Yeah a few songs could be cut out as it's a lot of music but it still works. They have their distinct sounds yet pair well. I've had it on all day on repeat and not skipped any tracks because of boredom. It's a solid album, both go for different vibes and they do well at them. There are several hits on here, in fact most of the songs hold up decades later. Impressive. I understand they are done, I know that 3000 has moved on but DAMN I miss new Outkast music. It was always special to listen to that first time.

I don't when know where to begin. This is less an album than music-based performance art, wch is saying a lot even for hip-hop. I'm bowled over by the range of ability and genre and the creativity of the beats and compositions.

Each album is so strong and showcases what each does so brilliantly that it was easier to accept this as a swan song, even though we all understood that this was the end of Outkast (though I recall plenty of denial and bargaining in the media as people went through their stages of grief). I haven't done a proper front-to-back listen in probably 20 years. Speakerboxxx is such a shot of adrenaline that it's probably impossible to sustain for an hour. I petered out after "The Rooster", though there are plenty of good moments in the following *13* tracks. The Love Below sustained a bit longer, but I was done after "Pink and Blue" (possibly including, but I think that song is a groove and maybe I'd include it on my master mix). Their musical interests are so melded into that mix of funk/jazz/Prince that things feel more cohesive than I remembered. It's a natural evolution of Stankonia, itself an experimental mess that yielded a half-dozen all-time classics. There's one five-mic album somewhere in here. Maybe the alternate timeline I'd be most interested in is this project being one last proper collaboration before calling it a day. Imagine Big Boi having a firecracker verse or two on "Behold a Lady", or Andre lending some off-kilter flourishes to "Church" or "Knowing". We could be in Aquemini/ATLiens territory. Alas.

Speakerboxxx is a 5/5 The Love Below I have to give a 3.7. It sort of sputters out after Roses, love the interpolation of John Coltrane's version of My Favorite Things, but it really just added a beat to Coltrane's performance. You've already listened to an album and a half of really, really good music, that the second half of The Love Below is a little disappointing

bop after bops

Interesting double album. Good, not great IMO.

Nope

Quite a lot to get through hey ya!!!

TLDR but enjoyed the first disc for sure

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.

Stankonia will always be my favorite OutKast album, but I do love this one. However, looking at it critically, I wish they’d been able to work together to edit and make one stellar album instead of 2 great albums marketed as 1.

intro- weird in a good but plastic way. the "speaker box" was way too...off? ghettomusick- a bit smiliar to Britney, but more upbeat. the drums are too much, way too frequent. it's like '90s cool music. it sounds like a closed mall. with few windows. robotic, but not enough. especially the bass and drums. unhappy- the harmonies are like sprite. smoothly flowing, but a bit poppy. the rap is effortlessly fire. bass is good. bowtie- smash music. almost like whatta man. those two songs are married. harmonies are fire, smooth, raps are on beat, good as hell. the way you move- a bit uncomfy topic (at least not degratory), but the music is really good. the back track is really good. smooth, flowing effortlessly, the bass is not taking up too much space, yet it has a good structure. it's not as boring as the ones before this. the rooster- the intro of it is sooo good. the guitar is funky. it's a bit too manly? like cocky. too cocky. the rap is on spot. it flows, it's smooth. but it scratches nothing in my brain. the rooster sound in the back is annoying bust- the intro is hell nah. don't talk. it's not spooky, it's annoying. the mouth sounds are way too no. nah. way too manly and cocky, it sounds like a muscly guy flexing his big car while having a sloppy dick. war- the melody of the into is a bit basic yet it scratches my brain. it's a bit off key. the rap is cool. overall: horny man music and some really harsh truth

OutKast goes solo but releases the albums as one work instead of two separate ones. It really is two albums - a progressive southern hip hop album that is a masterpiece from Big Boi and then a jazzy funk weird ass album from Andre that is a masterpiece.

Not my type

Pretty good overall but definitively not my favorite OutKast album. And it's very long (because it's two discrete albums). Still, being the third or fourth best OutKast album is better than most other rap groups entire discography. Looking backwards you might think The Love Below is better based on Andre's higher popularity and prowess but musically and lyrically Speakerboxxx is more appreciated by me.

Okay, wasn’t expecting to see this on here but curious to give it a spin. Eeeek 2hr 15 tho! Bit a novel concept. I’m intrigued. Let’s go… I think I had always (wrongly) put OutKast in a pop category and written them off as simplistic, as a result. The start of this album tells me otherwise. A lot of depth, skill, cleverness, layers. I’m glad to be corrected! LOVE bowtie and last call, too. Already, it’s such a trip and so much depth and variety to it. Not sure how I’ll summarise all 2+ hrs! Anyway, onto CD2… …yeh, I feel like this needs repeated listens. It is SO good and SO much going on in it too. And the variety and layers and eclecticism. Is this the start of an OutKast rabbit hole?! CD2 maybe not as hard hitting as the first, but still just as clever and engaging. My interest is piqued! 4*

What an absolutely wild ride. TBH, I skimmed through a lot of them because I am trying to catch up and I know this album would take a lot to listen to and I feel like I got the jist. All of the collaborations? and Norah Jones at the end?? What a wild ride. I feel like for a lot of these albums, I would need to be in the right headspace and also grow up in the time and listen to the albums with friends to get the full experience. Not just blandly listen to them in my office with the blasted overhead lighting. But it was still alright.

It has been awhile since I listened to this album… still stands up. 3.8.

Wow, didn’t expect two hours of hip hop today. Listened to this in fragments throughout the day. It went *everywhere*. I had to check periodically that it hadn’t gone onto radio mode due to the end of the album. Certainly wasn’t a lack of ideas on the part of these two. Still, it wasn’t particularly coherent, and beyond the songs I recognized it was a bit meh. 5/10 Decent

Speakerboxxx was fun and well produced and just clipped along, great highway-driving music. The Love Below .... was uneven. Hey Ya was everywhere for like a solid year of college ... but Roses I never want to hear again and I'm mad about it. Partner keeps threatening me with Andre 3000's flute jazz album and I'm now both more scared and more intrigued. No clue how to rate this as one piece of media. 4 and 1 and

there's a lot of stuff that's filler here and a lot of incredible stuff that got swallowed up by hey ya's gravitational pull. and also i always thought hey ya should be the song that plays during my high school reunion's "in memoriam" slide show

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.

I was given "Stankonia" not that long ago, and despite my general dislike of rap and hip hop, I didn't hate it. I knew this album was on the list, but I didn't expect to get it so soon. I was already familiar with "The Way You Move" and "Hey Ya" because I used to listen to the radio a lot when I was a teenager. I always thought "The Way You Move" was a random interlude between the other songs on the radio for some reason, but I liked the song in its entirety here. What draws me to this album (and the other one) is the extensive use of multiple instruments, sounds, and melodies. It's not just rapping to a synth beat: it's hip hop, jazz, soul, and r&b all mixed together. The lyrics are also immediate and real, and I can feel the urgency in many of the songs. The first half of the album (Big Boi's) is the most like "Stankonia", and I thought it was the strongest side. I felt like it carried a more serious tone and I liked the instrumentation better.The second half (Andre 3000's) came across as more mellow and soulful, and though different instrumentation was used, I didn't like it as much as the first half. Overall, this album was quite a long listen (over 2 hours), and I did take a break halfway through. I think I enjoyed this more than "Stankonia", in part because of the variety of music and also because it was a clear evolution from the previous album while staying in the same vein.

a wild and wacky tour inside the minds of outkast

Joj slatki su mi oni oduvijek i par pjesama mi je baš super, ali ne mogu hvaliti cijeli album. Neki prosjek rekla bih. 3/5, 5/10

Funny mixture of different styles from hip hop to electronica.

When you look at it in 2 pieces they both are really quite good albums. Treating them as a single album bigs them down a bit with the sheer length

It's my birthday, and what a birthday gift it is to receive this album today! A favorite of mine. It's the album that not only introduced me to OutKast, but to Hip Hop in general. The thing I love the most about OutKast is how fun their music is. Like, it's great, the beats are infectious, the lyrics are memorable, the hooks are catchy, and throughout both Speakerboxxx and The Love Below, this sense of fun pervades. I originally loved "The Love Below," which was unlike anything else I'd ever heard. But as time has gone on, I find myself drawn more and more to "Speakerboxxx." Sure, the album is long, and maybe too long for some people's taste, but I'll always love the expansive eclecticism of this record.

hey ya

long ass album, but pretty good for background music while discussing absolutely nothing with your friends

Despite how long this album is, the only song that felt like a bit of a slog to get through was the very last one, other than that this album was a joy to listen to. I’ve always loved Andre 3000, especially when he features on other peoples song but strangely enough I found myself really enjoying Big Boi’s half of the album, potentially even more… but they have two very distinct vibes i feel and I like that you can treat them as two separate albums however they still feel connected somehow.

This is just some fun music. Perfect album to get on Friday. Production is super cool, lots of really unique ideas and textures. Not all of it is perfect, some of the more traditional rap songs are a little weak. But overall, very fun.

Banger 🔥

Yoooooooooooooo so good. Haven’t actually finished it because it’s so long but it’s clearly a masterpiece. Speakerboxx!

This is really good. The creativity and range makes this unexpectedly banging. But as a double album, it's way too long. There are some very good tracks, lot of decent guests, it's varied, sounds like the fun of the early 00s... Should have been shorter and kept the absolute bangers on this.

TapI liek a lot

This album is kind of obnoxiously long (40 songs, 2+ hours), and I can do without the skits/interludes. But along the way there are enough gems to earn this album a higher ranking.

Say you have an eagle... that's pretty awesome. Say you have a lion... that's also awesome. Say you have had an eagle and half a lion, and glue the halves together... that's a Griffin, and maybe even more awesome than the two animals individually. Say you have a whole eagle and a whole lion, and you just sort of glue them to each other... well, that's just a lot. And makes you going "why are those two things awkwardly glued together?" Which is why I'm giving this album a 4 star, though I was tempted to go 5 star.

The talent and ambition is undeniable - and I recognize that without the sprawl and throwing a million things at the wall, you might not end up with insane dance songs like 'Hey Ya!', unmistakable classics like 'I Like the Way You Move,' big swings mixing R&B, electronic beats & spoken word/hip hop with 'Spread' and 'She Lives in My Lap' ...but you also end up with Eminem sound-alikes like 'Church' and needless guests that add nothing (looking at you, Jay Z.) & too many goddamn interludes. It's a tragedy Andre just can't do the fame & music thing anymore because everything they put together to this point was blisteringly fun, often surprising, and fucking infectious. But you can see the cracks here, in the sprawl, in wanting to try different things to the point that you end up with double solo albums rather than a purely joint effort. Given their talent, tho, even when it's too long with a few duds, it's still often a great listen - just not unmitigatedly so.

Epic album, epic songs. Great art and artists. Design..the whole package. Really like this.

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

Remarkedly long and honestly quite boring other than the hits. Best Song: Roses Rating: 6.0/10 Stars: 3

This one has some bangers! Cool concept for Big Boi & Andre 3000 to each do an album. Beastly one too at something like 40 songs & 2 hours 15 mins. I still remember singing "Hey Yeah" at the top of my lungs, dancing on the couches with everybody, the summer of 2003, when I stayed at Furman living at the TKE house. I've seen Outkast before (Big Guava 2014) and saw Big Boi come out for his "Big Grams" partnership with Phantogram at the Tabernacle.

ok me sente lo escuche. Creo que podria haber muerto sin escucharlo. Heeeeeeyaaaaa unico momento que senti euforia 3/5

Ugh. Wildly inconsistent and ludicrously long.

haha

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.

These two albums were released at probably my most musically impressionable age growing up. I don’t know what to say apart from what has already been said regarding the huge number of hits and unmistakable groove of Atlanta’s historic duo. “Certified Hood Classic” doesn’t do it justice. Everyone needs to hear these songs at least once.

Wow, lots to unpack. Hey Ya and Roses back to back are the elephant in the room. Absolute classics that on their own could carry a bad album. For The Love Below side, Take Off Your Cool and Prototype were nice surprises. I really went in blind on Speakerboxxx, and overall had a good time. The Way You Move was all I was really familiar with and took me right back to high school dances for better or worse heh. Now to get picky. 2 hours for all of it was a marathon. I felt like Speakerboxxx was just constantly solid, whereas The Love Below had its couple absolute bangers surrounded by other stuff that I either didn't click with or felt like filler. As many songs as I enjoyed from the whole package, I just can't see listening to the whole thing front to back ever again. Still an all-timer, but the bloat keeps it from the top for me.

Speakerboxx -1.5. Love below - 4

So I don't know what to write about this album because it's a lot. It's 135 minutes between two albums: the 56 minute southern hip-hop joint from Big Boi (Speakerboxxx) and the 78 minute ambitious pop undertaking of André 3000 (The Love Below). Like a lot of people, my impression of this record comes from the hits. Hey Ya was the one played more on the radio and it's since become one of my favorite songs ever. It's so genius that it feels like it's in a league of its own on this record. There's also The Way You Move and Roses which came later in my life, but that was enough for me to know that this album was huge. I mean, this won Album of the Year at the Grammys! So it had to be doing something right especially for being such a long gamble of a career move. At 135 minutes, it's the second longest album I've heard on the list so far. Does it spend its time well? On Speakerboxxx, it's more of the Outkast I heard while window-shopping Aquemini and Stankonia. In other words, it's the Outkast you would expect. Sharp, southern hip-hop with wits and southern playalistic flows for days. Big Boi exhibits his wonderland of swagger through bouts of party boosters and realism. He raps about his family struggles, politics and slices of life overall. Meanwhile, the beats float with inventiveness and the features absolutely deliver to the right house. It's sealed in a well-put together package that makes for what a standard Outkast album would have turned to be. My only real quip with this is the amount of interludes that show up on the way to the finish line. From tracks 10 - 19, only 5 songs are actual songs. The other 5 are interludes featuring Big Boi's son rapping, a bunch of shout-outs and an epilogue track. When you get to the real meat however: check out Unhappy, Church, Tomb Of The Boom, Knowing and Flip Flop Rock. The very latter of these tracks is my absolute favorite because that Jay Z hook goes crazy. Speakerboxxx ends on the weaker side unfortunately, but I guess it's not the end of the MAIN album. We have to switch to the other side of the vision now with André's The Love Below. Immediately with Disc 2, you're met with a string section. My perception of The Love Below was always that 3 Stacks went insane and did a smooth jazz type of move that somehow had Hey Ya on it. Upon researching this record and seeing an influence of Prince, I see his vision clearly now. After two listens (four fucking hours of music), The Love Below is my favorite out of the two. It might be slow-paced and longer than the other. It might have more tracks that have less to say, but dammit if it doesn't speak to me. All this love-talk makes me feel seen. Yes, 1001 Albums community! I am a teenager! I am a college student! Songs about the realities of relationships interest me! The stronghold of this album is between Spread and Roses. You got Spread (the one-night stand jam), Prototype (stank you for the slow jamz), She Lives In My Lap (Prince fever), Hey Ya (yeah) and Roses (She's a bitch). After that, the tracks do vary in and out but I did feel an undeniable charm from the second listen. What the Love Below does best is show André's creative side to grand results. He simply wanted to advance himself as an artist and he did. He had the label, the management and the business partner willing to do it and I'm glad he did. Because if I made a crazy risky move like this and got a worldwide hit song and Grammy out of it, I too would be happy. If there's anything else to say about The Love Below, Kelis and Norah Jones also deliver on their features and that rendition of My Favorite Things goes insane. When thought of as a single unit, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is incredible. It's a hassle to get through, but it's so worth the time to dig into the minds of ATL's finest. I don't think any other duo could have pulled this off: to have a multi-platinum selling double album where you do solo albums rather than a group project. You would need two decipherable, lovable identities with personalities galore. They would both need a feel for the music they produce, a love supreme of their own. If there was any group to pull it off, it was Outkast. Idlewild notwithstanding, this would be their final hurrah in the spotlight...and what a way to go. I could spend more time telling you why I like this record, but let's be honest: "Y'all don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance" (9/10, 5/5 on this scale)

Over two hours of vibes with some ‘00s classics sprinkled in.

I don't think I ever listened to this full album before. Speakerboxxx is so good. GhettoMusick is such a strong opener and it's just so solid all the way through. The Love Below is more hit and miss for me but the high points are really high. Overall these two albums are great.

OMGGGGG 5

some great classic outkast songs on here but the album as a whole wasn't my favorite.

Brilliant album, I didn’t realise how versatile OutKast are. Will need to listen again and again

the vibes were fr sm different than those of rap songs currently, love that but like yeah ts so long man like ik its a double album but like they couldve chosen the 6 best from each and release those icl overall, im happy that this cool ass website brought me to this album though, never would've even thought of listening to it otherwise a high three / low four for sure

acho que gostei mais do "speakerboxxx" que do "the love below", esse hip hop mais animadinho e dançante com algumas faixas com guitarrinhas são mais do meu gosto. porém, a versatilidade do "the love below" é beeem fora da casinha e interessante. achei legal que do nada, meu mano andre 3000 lança um d&b sampleando favorite things da juliew andrews!! que inesperado.

Instant classic, I had only scratched the surface of outkast before this. Spread and Draculas Wedding are my favorites and right after listening to this I played spread in the car incessantly. you'll notice I havent rated an album in 2-3 years and that's because I was listening to this that whole time

Huge double album with some bangers and experimentation, that even when it isn't good, is at least interesting.. I prefer André's side though - for how weird and personal he dares to be, and the funky instrumentation throughout. 3 for Speakerboxxx and 4 for The Love Below for me - guess I'll round it up. Faves: The Way You Move, Flip Flop Rock, Last Call, Love Hater, Hey Ya!, She's Alive, Take Off Your Cool

A bit indulgent, but hits some serious highs. I feel like Thundercat must have been influenced by Andre3000 a bit.

Bloated. I feel like Speakerboxx is better with age and The Love Below is worse. The idea that we let Andre 3000 get away with those abysmal lyrics!

Was this the sign of the end for the dirty south duo? You can kinda feel who inspired and had the most influence behind each disc and track. Killer Mike killin it per usual on two tracks is a nice treat. Honestly Andre’s vibe squashes the 5.

The creative energy and sheer ability on display is incredible, and contagious--even the interludes are super fun and full of personality! LOVED My Favorite Things; all together I think I preferred The Love Below. Both are great

A fun album with some cool songs. Hey Ya is one of my favorite songs of all time so I'll bump it up a bit for that.

Album de mi época que nunca escuché completo. Una locura llena de rolonas. "She lives in my lap" se quedó a vivir en mi cabeza.

Really solid. Lots of variance, and as a double-album there's just so much to dig into if you want to do so. I probably slightly prefer Speakerboxxx overall, but both "albums" have plenty of bangers. Best surprises for me were probably Tomb of the Boom and Last Call.

Much love for OutKast

Easily one of the best albums of all time, album of my adolescence and album of the 2000's maybe. I didn't relisten like I should have, but I will. I just want to have the right setting. Maybe the next time I take a drive up to Santa Fe by myself I'll throw it on.

Horrendous start - ghettomusik Absolute yo-yo, some utter drivel mixed with belters. Interludes are terrible Like making a dish from all the ingredients in the fridge: some mouthfuls having you hugging the toilet, others = musical elixir Genuine 4/5* tracks intertwined with swamp Far too long

Both albums are great. Massive songs on both. Would have made one amazing album, but suffers from some filler.

3.17

Hey Ya! is of couse the stand out track, and nothing else on the ablum is quite like it 40 tracks look quite daunting, but a lot of those are intro's or transitions Dracula's Wedding was funny and nice to hear Norah Jones on the album Ultimately, not my thing at all, but glad I gave it a listen

Its ok im not mad about it

Too long to really get into.

OutKast Speaker Boxxx/the Love 3* much prefer Stankonia. This is apparently two albums in one and it feels that way. I really like Speaker Boxxx would give that a 4 on its own The Love is less consistent and would probably rank 2 to 2.5 on its own. I could do with fewer interludes

Too much. Some good tracks though.

Album 119. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (https://open.spotify.com/album/1UsmQ3bpJTyK6ygoOOjG1r?si=6FFAmp9EQ-qcNXt48Sd-qw) — Outkast (2003) ooooooohhhhh sheeeeeet, we're finally closer and closer to my golden hip-hop territory. I was terrified in the morning when I saw how long this album is: 40 tracks, 2 hours and 14 minutes of great hip hop. Fundamental, Monumental, GOATed. Basically, it's a double album. Two albums in 1 wrap — and that's unusual. Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and Andre 3000's The Love Below. While listening, it feels like both OutKast members have unlimited ideas. Big Boi's Speakerboxxx is more complex and technical, Andre's The Love Below is more chill and soft but loses rap power — it's becoming just weaker for non-fans as I can see. Despite high technique, Speakerboxxx doesn't work perfectly for me, I don't really wanna relisten to it except GhettoMusick and The Way You Move — the last one is basically too similar to the second album. Both albums are great, still I prefer Andre's The Love Below: more structural, but not traditionally, experimental, much more styles mixing. There's jazz, psychedelic, pop, funk and much more. And Andre switches between genres like it's the easiest thing in the world - maestro. And Prince influence is vital here. I just recently recalled Happy Valentine's Day from this album and now here we are with a whole album. The Love Below part is unique for hip-hop: a hip-hop love album with a much more gentle style, it evolves song to song and each sounds so new. It's just silly enough, technical enough,lyrically repetitive enough - everything in balance for perfection. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is a compromise and the document of the creative dissolution of OutKast. Absolute masterpiece 5/5 Liked songs: — GhettoMusick — The Way You Move — The Rooster — Bust — War — Tomb of the Boom — Flip Flop Rock — Reset — Love Hater — God — Happy Valentine’s Day — Spread — Prototype — She Lives in My Lap — Hey Ya! — Roses — Behold a Lady — Love In War — My Favorite Things — Vibrate

Good

This conscious hip-hop/progressive hip hop album tons of great songs and I love the the hit song Hey Ya. Sadly the album is way too long to enjoy it fully as it is basically two solo albums combined into one, and it's stylistically very inconsistent. It would be much better than as a single album with the strongest songs on it.

Save :2

This is like if Shrek and Donkey made a double album. It's an interesting idea.. I think at this point just make solo projects, stitching them together makes it really long and inconsistent. There are some really good tracks to cherry pick from here but also a lot of filler.

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

I remember buying this album (double CD) as a college sophomore. It was an odd decision, because I was not an Outkast guy...didn't own a single other Outkast album. I just dug "Ms. Jackson" like every other white suburban kid, so it felt like it was time to commit to getting more familiar, I guess. I also remember taking to Speakerboxxx quickly, and thinking The Love Below would take up permanent residence in my visor CD organizer and never see the inside of my aftermarket deck (with removable faceplate). And, truth be told, Speakerboxxx probably does have the edge on total played time. But The Love Below eventually lured me in. Revisiting this 20+ years later (what the fuck?), it was deja vu. Grinned all the way through Speakerboxxx and thought "No wonder I preferred this," only to fire up Love Below and find myself bobbing my head and restarting tracks. But how do I feel about the project as a whole? Good. Pretty goddamn good. Not deeply important to me, but definitely a piece of my musical history.

Me moló un poco aunque sea rap, pero el disco es muy largo

I've never had the pleasure of listening to this entire album. The millennial in me loves it.

Meh

40 song album too many skits such as interlude and intro, the big set list doesn’t justify the amount of meh songs it has hey ya is on here out of all of them I enjoyed flip flop rock last call and love hater

I accidentally listened to the censored version. I didn't find out until I was already past Speakerboxxx, so I didn't want to start over again. If I decide to re-listen it will be the uncensored version. The instrumentation is good on most of the tracks. I especially like it when it gets jazzy. There's not too many interludes or sketches and there is a lot of singing, so that's a plus for me. As a whole this was very long though!

Wow, the quadruple(?) album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was a lot to get through. I honestly think that either the two parts could've been released separately or both could've been condensed down to a single album each, because at 2 hours and 15 minutes, I feel like this album goes way too long. To be honest, I didn't care too much for the Speakerboxxx portion overall, which I saw as mostly just pretty average 2000's rap, with a couple of good songs here and there. Where this album really stands out in my opinion, is with The Love Below, which I found interesting with how diverse it is in sound and genre, and how it turns away from much of the rap overall. Obviously it has "Hey Ya!" which became one of their most famous songs, and remains my favorite on the album as well. Both parts share some common problems, though. Firstly, the whole self-centered persona both of them put on is pretty obnoxious, and gets annoying quickly. Secondly, there is a severe overabundance of interludes, and most of them are absolutely abysmal. The album wouldn't have been hurt in the slightest with the removal of those. I give Speakerboxxx a 2.5 since it isn't the worst thing I've heard, but is pretty unimpressive, and The Love Below a 4 since I really enjoyed the variety it takes on and prefer its departure from the rap style the first part has. Favorite Song: "Hey Ya!"

Strange and perplexing. This is a double cd, and never meant to be consumed in one long playlist. It is maddeningly long. Too long. Speakerboxxx is ok. It has good moments. The Love Below is where all the charm is. It’s strange that it’s the second part. Andre 3000 has a lot of charisma that carries a lot of the sometimes stupid tracks. A good album with waaaaay too much filler.

5.5

Some really good stuff in addition to the big radio hits.

Amazing double album. I liked the Love Below more when it first came out. Now I see Speakerboxxx is light years ahead. I listen to this album three times in a row. I want to keep listening to it.

Not my favorite OutKast album. So long

> the Beatles Just fantastic stuff

A classic! Rare that I got into this as it came out. 2 albums that sound like they were released about 15 years apart, but both great.

os cara do outkast eram mto fora da curva, não tem como

gosto DEMAIS desse aqui. não eh o que melhor representa o duo (até pq são dois albuns independentes) mas putz acho lindo demais. eh um pouco longo, mas eh justificado, são duas obras primas fi. dá pra ver os leves toques do big boi e do andre 3000 em algumas músicas um do outro, muito lindo. dito isso EH DOS MAIORES ALBUNS DO MUNDO. foda-se fi, os dois lados são brutalíssimos a sua maneira, só pedrada atrás de pedrada, sem descanso. maravilhoso demais, quem não curte é otário.

Great album. Love that both artists created their own albums

Great

i really liked it

quite fun

this was a fun vibe, some fun samples/features, saved quite a few songs, more variation than i realized for outkast happy valentine’s day so festive and topical didn’t rly need some of the skits (@ where aren’t panties) felt a littttle long

molto divertente, tanti sample belli ho letto che Speakerboxxx è più Big Boi e The Love Below è più André3000, team Big Boi atm ma molto belli entrambi i side NON li avrei messi assieme onest eh, 40 cazzo di canzoni

Ordinarily I've very little time for double albums. In fact, I can't think of one I like beyond this one. This one is a belter. 2 albums in one articulating both sounds of Big Boi and Andrei 3000. I loved it on teams and it's still a cracking album now.

A classic album that is 2 solo albums in one. Personally I’m a much bigger fan of Big Boi overall. He truly shines on Speakerboxxx, and has some banging features. Andre 3000 is the more adventurous and eccentric album, but it’s a bit more hit or miss for me, especially with Interludes that feel like a waste of time. Speakerboxxx - 4.75 / 5 The Love Below - 4.25 / 5 Overall rating: 4.5 / 5

I don't know where the critical mood is these days, but when this album came out the critical and popular consensus seemed to be that Speakerboxxx was an ok straightforward rap record and The Love Below was a work of staggering genius. This is precisely backwards. Speakerboxxx, on its own, holds up alongside OutKast's other records. The best songs in Idlewild (the movie) all come from Speakerboxxx ("Bowtie" "The Rooster" "Church"). The first half Speakerboxxx is simply flawless. Funky, fun, at times even deep. The bits where Sleepy Brown or especially Andre dip in elevate it. Even most of the features are good (exceptions: "Tomb of the Boom" save Ludacris, and "Last Call"). I know "The Whole World" is what really launched "Killer Mike", but I think his best work with OutKast is on this. Even "Bamboo" makes me smile (I too am a proud father), and I usually hate skits. I still play Speakerboxxx front-to-back a few times every year. Nearly perfect album. The Love Below, on the other hand, is too much. Andre 3K is, for me, the GOAT among rappers, so at some level it just feels sad and unfair that he's choosing to make pop records or (now) flute records. When he shows up on a feature these days, he's still fire! Keep rapping Andre! This is not to say The Love Below is *bad*, it's just incredibly uneven and not what I personally want. "Hey Ya" and "Roses" are both pretty much perfect pop songs. (Both discs are at their best when both members are on the tracks, as on "Roses" "Ghettomusick" etc.). Some of the other tracks are fun ("Happy Valentine's Day" "Prototype") or at least interestingly adventurous ("My Favorite Things" "Love Hater"). Trouble is Andre went too far down the rabbit hole of his weirdness and his genius, which results in something that a) doesn't really seem like an OutKast album; and b) is mediocre. In short, Speakerboxxx is a 5, TLB is a 3.

Conventional wisdom has it that these are two solo albums hastily stapled together, but who cares because it really is a chocolate and peanut butter situation and cemented OutKast in Top 40 culture, even if it is far from their best “album.” Less conventional wisdom is that Speakerboxx is pound for pound the better album.

The concept is a bit strange, but you can see where their collaboration came from. The first part worked better for me, the second one just in parts, particularly up to Hey Ya!.

This started out as two solo albums and then got released as a double CD under the Outkast name. To be honest, it outstays its welcome. It's not short of ideas, but I don't think all of the ideas are strong enough to sustain a 2¼ hr runtime. What with "interludes" and silent tracks, and recordings of babies and spoken word sections, theres quite a bit of self indulgent faffing about. Probably would have been stronger if someone had said, "Give me your best 30 minutes of material and we'll make a single CD." When it's good, it's excellent, but editing is always a good thing.

People don't make albums like this anymore. The length was a lot to get through - but the variety and talent on this is great. Some gems, some weird interludes.

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.

Nice beats, good grooves, everything works well together. Speakerboxxx works a lot better for me than The Love Below, but you definitely get the difference in the direction each was going at the time.

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

Did not enjoy quite as much as the last OutKast album

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.

Loved it! So very long though. More albums should say the name every song.

There are some great songs, but they just get lost in the album it is soooo damn long. I feel like Hey Ya just doesn't fit the whole vibe of the album, but not complaining

Listening to an almost 2 hour album in one day is difficult so I think I'll need to listen to it a few more times.

Decent. But very long.

Eh

4* for Speakerboxx, 2* for the Love Below

Outkast are cool

me sigue sorprendiendo la cantidad de audios de tiktok que encuentro en los albumes

Good energy but a lot of it sounds the same as the other songs

Overall Rating - 2.92/5 (5.84/10). Long, at times weird, but overall good.

Disappointing

FIRE

Holy shit boys, 2 hr 15 min…interesting Andre did 1 album (Love Below), Big Boi did another (Speakerboxx) and they just issued it as 1 album. I like Big Boi's side better. Tighter

Basically two great albums in one. The mixing is fantastic. Fun rhythms and themes, and if you don't start moving at several points throughout you probably don't have a pulse. First disc is better than the second, IMO, but tough to beat "Hey Ya!" on the 2nd disc for an all-time banger.

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

Normally I dock any album over 90 minutes a star because no one has time for that but this one is an exception. The songs, the skits, all flow so well that you don't even feel like 2 hours have passed.

mid 2

First time I’ve listened to these albums in full since the mid-2000s and I was surprised at my reaction to them. Firstly, Speakerboxxx is hot shit. Barely a wasted note on it. Terrific. The Love Below always took a while to get going but that back end of it from Roses onwards is mighty fine. Made so much more sense to me at 47 than it did at 25. Very talented fellas. Sure, you could trim it down a little but I did the whole thing in one sitting and could happily listen again. I’m giving it a 4 because I don’t think it sits as high in the pantheon of hip hop, soul, r&b or jazz as others on this list but it’s 100% worth your time. Big Boi brings the party with Speakerboxxx and with The Love Below, Andre 3000 has made possibly the horniest album alive. Best: GhettoMusick, Unhappy, Roses, Love in War Worst: Most of the interludes

ESSE ÁLBUM EU TENHO APEGO EMOCIONAL !!!!!! maior da história deles como pode serem OS maiorais (ouvi dia 04 de fevereiro e ele me lembra o meu pai)

Įdomus mixas. Pirmoji dalis labiau apie pasaulio problemas, antroji apie meilę.

It feels almost futile to review this record. It’s truly a masterpiece of southern hip-hop, and one of my favourites. The concept of releasing two completely different albums as one double album is really cool and it’s so interesting to hear either member of OutKast’s songwriting on display. Speakerboxxx, Big Boi’s half of the album, is what I would consider an essential piece of southern hip-hop history. There’s so many incredible features in this first half of the album. Everything from the lyricism to the flow to the overall vibe is impeccable. The Love Below, the brainchild of Andre 3000, is such a stark contrast to the first half of the album, but it somehow works together so well. This second half is jazzy, funky, and occasionally psychedelic. It’s eccentric and weird and outrageously fun to listen to. Even if one was to ignore the massive and impossible to overstate cultural importance of “Hey Ya!”, this second half of the album would still be a 10/10 in my books. This double album is absolutely deserving of the highest possible rating.

What is there to be said about this album? It is momentous. If you don't love this album we simply do not agree on rap music or perhaps music at all. It achieves the rare feat of being both commercially successful with three huge singles--"Hey Ya", "The Way You Move" and "Roses"--and apparently going 13x platinum in the US, while also being astoundingly creative, defying categorization by genre, laying out lofty ambitions and exceeding them. A lot has been made of this album being a double album and that the two halves of it are essentially two solo albums from Big Boi and André 3000 each stapled together. At the time, many comparisons were drawn to John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's growing creative differences and diverging songwriting styles before the breakup of the Beatles. Big Boi addresses this directly on "Tomb of the Boom": "I say, 'People, stop the madness, 'cause me and Dre, we okay' OutKast: "Cell Therapy" to cell division We done split it down the middle so you can see both the visions Been spittin' damn near ten years—why the fuck would we be quittin'?" Interesting considering they did, in fact, break up shortly after and 'Speakerboxxx/The Love Below' was their last great album. I could go track by track but that would take a very long time. I love both halves of this album but I think Big Boi's half is kind of slept on. Thematically, I appreciate that it covers a lot more ground than 'The Love Below'. Highlights for me on the first half are "GhettoMusick" (FEELIN GREAT FEELIN GOOD HOW ARE YOU!!!), "Bowtie", "Church" (WHY ARE WE HEEEERE!!! WHAT ARE WE HEEEERE FOOOOR!!!!) and "Last Call". Musically, 'The Love Below' is just... brilliant. The frenetic urgent energy in "Spread", the rhythm of "Pink and Blue", the jazziness of "My Favorite Things" and "Take Off Your Cool". "Prototype" is as close as any song I can think of comes to what falling in love sounds like for me and it gives me a little bit of that blissful feeling every time I listen to it. Whatever "She Lives In My Lap" is? C'mon now. It's all so funky, so jazzy, so soulful, so entirely unique while maintaining such smart rap and pop sensibilities. It's truly remarkable. I don't think it's really possible to say enough good things about this album, the content itself or the impact it has had. If we send another disc of great human accomplishments out into space this should be in consideration.

soooo long

Ohhh this is really good, I love Outkast and I do like the Side A/Side B contrast, BUT it's just too long for me to find a way to rate it as a single album. I'll try to get to know it over the next year and may come back with a higher rating! 6/10

I really like OutKast. In the mid-nineties, ATLiens was a true revelation. I never connected with another one of their albums as much as that one, though I can admit that Aquemini and Stankonia might actually be better records. Andre and Big Boi, perhaps more than any other rap duo, showed a clear line of artistic growth with each release. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was an artistic peak, and one that seems almost inevitable in retrospect. This release was always billed as two albums, not a double album. Artistically, these two records would have been better served by being released separately, even if simultaneously. However, I understand why that would have never been possible from a marketing standpoint. I probably could focus on how great each record is if I could separate them and listen more carefully in turn. As it is, I find Speakerboxxx/The Love Below to be brilliant but sprawling, which is probably why I never got into this release even though I was already a pretty big OutKast fan when it (they?, see it's confusing!) was released. Four stars.

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.

Over 2 hours long and still not long enough for me

Fuck yes

3 большому мальчику 4 А-3000

Наконец-то музыка, в которой я ничего не понимаю. Я ничего не понял. 2000 Андре из 3000

Надеюсь все кайфанули от двухчасового мастерписа. Amen oh I'm sorry I'm sorry A-lady

Ееее наконец-то хип-хоп, но сразу же неоднозначный альбом. OutKast и до этого релиза не отличались лаконичностью проектов, а тут еще и 2 диска от каждого из участников общей длительностью в 2 часа 15 минут, ууух, не каждый выдержит. Диск 1. Speakerboxxx. Big Boi на мой взгляд переоценен. Он, возможно, действительно неплохая вторая опция в группе из нескольких MC (имхо, но я, например, Phife Dawg в аналогичной роли значительно больше ценю, так что даже тут не самый топчик). Мне даже кажется, что он в хорошем смысле заземлял Andre 3000 от уходов куда-то в космос, да и на контрасте они вместе хорошо звучат. Однако сольные 19 треков Big Boi не то, что у меня обычно вызывает трепет. Тем не менее, первый диск мне все таки нравится. Во-первых, тут практически у каждого трека очень качевые и запоминающиеся инструменталы на стыке недушного фанка и южного хип-хопа, в целом то, чего и так вдоволь было на Aquemini и Stankonia, но там они были в основном во второстепенных номерах, а тут выходят на первый план. Ни одного проходного фита: Sleepy Brown своим припевом формирует главный хит Speakerboxxx - The Way You Move; Killer Mike и Jay-Z на одном треке - имба, еще и на таком лютом продакшене. И вроде все хорошо, но сам Big Boi не дотягивает до уровня остальных компонентов альбома, в редких случаях выдавая хоть немного запоминающиеся моменты. Вот и складывается ощущение, что ничего против альбома не имеешь, а пробираться сквозь утомляющий флоу автора не особо то и хочется, поэтому в основном я возвращаюсь только к переслушиванию второго диска. Диск 2. The Love Below. С каждым новым альбомом участники группы уходили все дальше друг от друга. Причем я даже не затрагиваю межличностные отношения, в данном случае хочу сфокусироваться именно на творчестве. Как минимум отдалялись стилистически, что видно на этом двойном альбоме, и какие разные у обоих рэперов получились "сольники". Big Boi неплохой рэпер, но без претензии на что-то за пределами его творческой зоны комфорта, а вот Andre 3000 было тесно в рамках жанра, куда его это привело как раз видно на The Love Below. Самое забавное, что Андре даже с точки зрения рэпа значительно талантливее и влиятельнее своего друга. Ладно облизал одного, закопал другого, можно возвращаться к музыке. The Love Below это, конечно, еще не нью-эйдж под флейту, тут пока подождать еще 20 лет придется, но тоже для стандартного хип-хоп альбома довольно необычный с точки зрения мешанины жанров проект. Соул, фанк, поп, психоделия, да и сам рэп, все это в своих прогрессивных вариантах - чего тут только нет. Очень серьезное влияние Принца. Сам альбом неровный, кажется, что Андре порой не хватает чувства меры, а иногда и вкуса (зачем так было издеваться над Колтрейном в My Favorite Things, я не понимаю). Но некоторые песни безумно красивые - тут мой фаворит Vibrate, который я регулярно гонял на прогулках в годы универа. Про Hey Ya ничего не могу сказать, эмоции аналогичны тем, что я описал в случае с Bittersweet Symphony. В целом ощущение, что гениальный рэпер подумал, что он еще и гениальный музыкант, но тут уже таланта не хватило. Четче всего это подтвердится спустя почти 10 лет на треке Sixteen у Rick Ross, где Andre 3000 сначала зачитает один из лучших гостевых куплетов начала 10ых, а затем зачем-то сыграет утомительно длинный и нелепый соляк на гитаре. Итого: Оставить инструменталы первой половины, сделать под них стандартный альбом OutKast с главной ролью у Андре. Чтобы не бузотерил добавить пару его сольных треков. Вот вам и рецепт практически идеального мэйнстрим рэп альбома с вкраплениями экспериментов от легендарной хип-хоп группы. В реальности тоже симпатично получилось, но до уровня предыдущего творчества дуэта не дотягивает, слишком много шероховатостей. 3,5, но снова карандашом 4. P.S. Альбомы длиной больше 2 часов нужно разрешить только Майклу Джире, остальные не вывозят.

Лучшая песня: Hey ya! Худшая: Любая интерлюдия (особенно про трусы) Безусловно, второй диск лучше первого. Но в целом, никогда ещё у меня не было столько желания переключить песню. Альбом может длиться хоть 5 часов, если музыка классная - здесь песни 4 неплохих на втором диске, и может быть 1 на первом (из 40!). Слушать можно, конечно, только зачем?

зачем столько песен на альбоме... вторая часть от моего тезки - поинтереснее. первая часть - 3, вторая - 4, итого 3.5

Стадии когда человек с тиктоковым мозгом узнаёт, что ему нужно послушать двухчасовой альбом: отрицание, гнев, торг, депрессия, сижу качаю ногой пока группа ауткаст рифмует fallopian и Ethiopian. Слушайте, ну это оказалось не только вайбово , но ещё и сразу несколько треков были добавлены в избранное. Отдельно плюсик за интересные тексты, которые можно разобрать, но не понять с первого раза, так что есть повод переслушать ещё раз и представить как прекрасен был мир без мамбл-рэпа..

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

Ура! Разблокирован новый жанр! В целом, идея такого альбома интересна, но что побудило участников дуэта реализовать её таким образом - загадка. По 10 отборных хитов от каждого и получился бы идеальный не затянутый альбом. Есть интересные треки, но они теряются на фоне бесконечного полотна музыки, интерлюдий и разговоров. Лайк за семпл Aaliyah, я аж вздрогнул.

Not really a double album, just two albums smashed together. I really like the love below and this rating would be much higher if it was stand alone. Hey Ya! has to be one of the best, most interesting songs ever written. Some sections of this TWO HOURS AND FIFTEEN MINUTES were definitely a slog.

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.

It's hard to give this anything lower than a 4 because it produced multiple iconic songs. I still wish this was a single record with only the greatest. That would have made this a 5 but it's still a really great record. Andre and Big Boi were both at the height of their creativity when this was made.

felt so overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of this 2 hour beast of an album that i’m now a week behind on this project. i love outkast and there are some undeniable bangers on this but fuck me could it not have been half the length fellas

I like both of these. Obviously two different vibes, which is why it had to be broken up. But both halves of the album are good.

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.

God, I genuinely was not expecting to like Speakerboxxx/The Love Below as much as i did but here we are. I did hear Stankonia way before hearing this and while i did like it, it was still overly weird at points. This album though, managed to be extremely great throughout. There are some dumb lyrics alongside some really genius ones. The vocals are also incredibly good always managing to complement these songs perfectly. But the real star of the show, is easily the production. It was so catchy and fun to listen to and it never felt annoying or overly bloated despite going on for two hours. I don't think i can think of a bad thing to say here, its just an absolutely amazing album. Best Song: Unhappy Worst Song: Where Are My Panties

The big problem with me occasionally having to do these albums at night is that I'll randomly be thrown a 135 minute-long 2CD and have to stay up until midnight. At least it's only the third longest album on this list, to my knowledge. Anyways, separating the two and putting their works on the same album is a very strange choice that's probably at least 90% motivated by money (kind of in the same way that Brendon Urie making 3 more albums as Panic at the Disco despite him being only member left was probably a 100% money-based decision), but I like it. Big Boi clearly wanted a more straightforward rap album and André wanted to drink a green half-caf decaf mint mocha latte out of a flower pot with foam at the bottom, so just giving them both a CD makes sense over having them fight over how normal their album is gonna be. Speakerboxxx feels more like an OutKast album in a lot of ways, but still throws in some really interesting songs. I like the EDM influence on GhettoMusick and all of the weird directions that side sometimes takes. Even the more regular parts of the album are pretty strong. The album takes a total turn going into The Love Below. It's hardly even a rap album, there's a lot more Funk and Soul thrown in than anything. I feel like "unrestricted" is the first word that comes to mind to describe that half, like an album André wanted to make for a while and totally went crazy with when he finally got the chance. It's pretty hard to say which side is better overall, I just like the musical whiplash between the two more than anything. Saxophone bonus points for The Love Below, along with my new favorite cover of My Favorite Things.

Like OutKast, own this. Too long for an album, but then it’s 2 albums ain’t it. It’s good 4 Star

Alldeles för mycket, lönge, många låtar. Orkar bara inte engagera mig i detta. En etta

My first ever musical ringtone came from this album!

I'm a little torn. Some iconic stuff. Some stuff that's not super great. Some stuff that was a really fun discovery because I never bothered to listen to the complete double album before. I guess if I'm not looking for something specific, this a fun, diverse ride. 3.5? I liked more of it than I didn't. Guess that's leaning into a 4.

makes me feel like i should be either walking confidently through a big city pretending to know where i'm going, or at a house party in the 2000s. i knew a few songs already but this album is insane. i didn't realize just how underrated most of their non-hit songs are, and didn't appreciate how good their hit songs are as well. 2 hours is definitely really long for an album so it was hard to get through but i really liked it.

way too long. with 40 songs on the album, once you've heard about 15 (which is more than the average album) you're tired of listening and dreading the fact you still have 25 to go. some songs were really good but the others were just ok. 6/10

Pros and cons. Biggest con being the unnecessary length. I got bored after a while. Still love Hey Ya, though.

Far out, that is 4 long albums in a row, this one topping out a 2hrs 15mins……… I need the days to be longer if this is what I’m going to get served up. As per other reviewers, this is a 2 disc set, the first - Speakerboxxx - from Big Boi, and then 2nd - The Love Below - from Andre 3000. Big Boi gets some points early with GhettoMusick, soon followed by The Way You Move, which is a great tune. He then falls victim to the hip-hop disease of having to have a guest on every track, along with too many skits and interludes. The Love Below seems to be Andre 3000 showing everyone how he can get into the girls' panties, with easily the best track being 'Hey Ya', even though it contains the couplet 'Don't want to meet your mama, just want to make you cumma' - ewwwwww!!! Anyway, some decent ideas but overly long and lots of filler, so can't give this too high a mark. But I've heard plenty worse. 3 stars

everyone should hear about this

Intressant med klassiker som Wild World. Många modernare låtar har definitivt inspirerats av det här albumet. Lugn klassisk rock som är bekväm att lyssna till, inte så krånglig musik.

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.

I really liked Speakerboxxx and while The Love Below was good, I didn’t like it as much.

The length of this combined project is way too much for one listen and would've benefited from being released as separate albums from Big Boi and Andre 3000. Individually they have their blemishes but these would've been two fantastic albums. Since I'm rating the combined album it's tough to justify a 5 but with the amount of variety packed in and the skillful production and lyricism I can't do less than a 4.

A Little to long… But childhood memories are hitting. Not a big HipHop girly.

A great album, but very long

10/10

First time listening to it in full. Main complaint is that it's way too long. 2 hrs for a rap album is insane but there was some variety at least. Some classics and hits but also some forgettable tracks.

didn’t finish

A big album with big hits, a bit too long for my taste.

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

שמעתי רק איזה 10 שירים שמתוכם השירים היו או ממש בסדר או ממש מגניבים

I like it a lot

Iconic

It’s outkast man! Big fan - wouldn’t necessarily put the album on myself, but there’s some bops.

Two great albums for the price of one.

Halfway through point. Saw this got flashbacks to listening to Ella Fitzgerald 3 hours in Disney world 🙄 lost my mind but the quality on this is much better every song so far has been relatively solid and fun + ludacris. My favorite things has a sample from my favorite Ariana grande song! (That’s a joke) the second disc is honestly worse in my opinion, yeah it has hey ya and a few other bangers but tbh it’s definitely not as strong. In all this album is so freaking long it negates all the good from the first half with mid filler shit that just waists my time and for that can’t rate this too crazy high like I want.

Its got some absolute monster songs on, Hey Ya, Roses, Bowtie, The Way You Move, but lets not pretend it isn't far too long. 4 stars, cut a few tracks and it would be much more digestible.

1/26/26: So fun, and deeper and more varied than I expected. 7.5/10

Two completely different projects in one package. Big Boi's half (Speakerboxxx) has both feet in the Outkast formula: strong beats, tongue twisting rhymes, and impeccable grooves. Andre 3000's half (The Love Below) is... wow. It's all over the place. Jazz, rap, pop, R&B, it is the Lost Prince album. Very few songs outwardly feature both Outkast members on the same track (if I recall, rumors of an impending split were pretty rampant just before release). I remember not really caring for Andre's album back in the day, while loving Big Boi's. That still mostly holds. I think Speakerboxxx is a masterpiece. The Love Below is more interesting sonically, but not as good... though it does have the two biggest hits (Hey Ya and Roses). I mean, it does have some great moments, but the lows are pretty rough. I was looking to see how many tracks were left at times... never a great sign. As it is honestly two albums by two artists, it's a bit unfair to give a single star rating. I give Speakerboxxx a 5... I give The Love Below a 3. So... 4?

I’ve liked OutKast’s radio hit but never listened to a full album. Loved this. I definitely appreciate OutKast’s weirdo experimentation and can see how this really set the stage for a lot of more recent hip hop albums.

This album or these albums? Basically two solo albums packaged together to meet label demands. Andre 3000’s The Love Below was such an ambitious release for a rapper at this time and spawned some truly mega hits, no matter how many times I hear Hey Ya it still makes me smile. Big Boi on the other hand shows us more of why OutKast were so hot at this time with more of their classic sound. This album holds a special place for me as it really was my gateway into discovering other kinds of music than just punk. Before this I would have called anything that wasn’t a shouty punk band lame. These days I probably prefer Speakerboxxx to The Love Below but both are fantastic. I would say they are better to listen to as individual pieces rather than one album. I would love to pick a song from each disk for my playlist but it feels like I’m flouting my own rules but it would have been Happy Valentines Day from the Love Below. Playlist track: Flip Flop Rock

eu gostei mas meio que 40 é demais. entendo o contexto mas

surpreendentemente bom.

eu gosto pra caramba de outkast mas achei ouvir esse álbum de cabo a rabo, de uma vez... puxado. adoro interludes, a ideia de um álbum conceitual e hip hop progressivo, mas tem muita gordurinha sobrando. ao mesmo tempo, é um tour de force, né? 2h15 de pura criatividade e ecletismo. valeu a pena.

This is versatility at its finest. OutKast shows that you can tell a story while being vulnerable, yet cool and confident. With a wide range of different genre's at that, it's such a classic, timeless album that is the blueprint for lots to come. Sometimes production does get a little wonky, but can be overlooked. 9/10 Favorite song: Prototype

3.0 - Ok

Has enough star power on show to not make the 2+ hours feel like a drag, but still could have used a bit of editing

Did this album get longer since it was released?!

It’s definitely best to treat this album as two completely separate albums with its over 2 hour run time. Granted it is still very incredibly massively long and kinda unlistenable repeatedly because of that. I will probably never listen to this album fully again in my life. Honestly so solid though, never was bored through the massive length which I can’t even say about countless albums at a quarter of the length of this album so that’s pretty impressive in its own right. Feeling generous today.

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.

It’s ridiculous that I didn’t listen to these guys properly before. I know the hits and think they are good, but never took the effort. What an absolute a-grade god tier effort of an album this is. A duality of more than 2 hours but I’m all for it. Creative, superb production value, dynamic, funny, great vibe. I was hooked once the insanity of GhettoMusick started.

Had a good couple songs on it and overall not too bad to sit through for being 2 hrs

Front to back INSANE. Disk 1 is hard hitting, disk 2 is pure vibes. Best album so far.

Fantastic bit of work. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing. I have done multiple times and I will do multiple times more.

no album has more interludes

Most songs were fun to listen to. I enjoyed it. With that said, over 2 hours is a long time and I didn't enjoy it that much. Hearing the influence of other cultures outside what is normally represented in hip hop was fun, though.

Speakerboxxx: 4/5 After I heard the first song, I thought I would be in for 2 hours of torture, but then immediately, I started getting into and I ended up really liking this half of the album. A few songs are amazing and only a couple are not very good. The interludes were all pretty fun and it gives a good break. This side isn't even an hour long, the other half is just really long. Speaking of... The Love Below: 2/5 I'm not enjoying this one as much. At the time of writing, I'm about 1/3 of the way through because it's about to give me another album and I want to put this into writing right now. I just don't love this style of music as much as Speakerboxxx. We'll see how the rest goes. So, the rest was just about the same. Hey Ya is very different from the rest of this album. I like that song, but not much from the rest. I averaged out the albums for my final rating. It's good at times, not so much at others. I don't mind it being so long especially when it gets broken up by interludes.

It was way too long. I get what they were doing with the double album concept between the two group members. But an album that is defined by it's catchy radio bangers should play to its strengths. If this album was 40 minutes it would be an all-time classic but as it stands, you have to wait over an hour until you get to Roses and Hey Ya

it's fine, but it is rather samey, and it's far too long. (I know that one CD is one chap, and the other CD is the other chap, but this whole thing would have been a much better listening experience if they had picked the best 22 minutes from each, rather than another ten yards of "here's some more stuff I had fun making".) 3 stars , because I'm feeling generous, and it's a nice vibe even if it is samey

This was a better listen than I expected. I went in a bit sceptical and did not think it would land the same now. It is uneven, but there is enough here to keep me listening. I still cannot stand Hey Ya!, which puts me on the back foot straight away. Once I get past that, there is more going on than I remembered. Different moods, ideas, and some tracks that age better than I thought. Not something I love, but a solid listen. Better than I gave it credit for.

Speakerboxx 1: GhettoMusick 2: Unhappy 3: Knowing The Love Below 1: Hey Ya! 2: Happy Valentine’s Day 3: Vibrate

I like hiphop

- Review overall: Double Album!!! I was intimidated when looking at the runtime but woah. Had so much fun listening to Speakerboxxx then the storytelling of The Love Below. Overall I really really liked this album and was so pleasingly surprised! - Speakerboxxx: Ok. Loved this so much. The horns, every single sound. Very fun to listen to and made me want to dance which is a main influence for my ratings haha. - The Love Below: So many bangers here also. Love a storyline in an album but still had me dancing throughout. - Standouts - Speakerboxxx: Intro, Unhappy - The Love Below: Prototype, Hey Ya!, Roses (possible contender for best song ever made)

Really not my thing.

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

It feels like two completely different parties happening under one roof. The first room is a sweaty, bass-heavy jam session that I never want to leave. The second room is an art-school kid’s fever dream, full of eccentric storytelling and weird funky shit. I dig the quirkiness of the lyrics too. It does drag a bit; there’s too much filler here. But it's a brilliant, messy, two-sided experiment. Hey Ya! Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - The Way You Move - Hey Ya! - Roses - Take Off Your Cool

Long album, of two halves, the melodies were pleasant so I didn’t really mind. On the other hand “She Lives in My Lap”, really? Does she have a strong tenancy agreement protecting her rights mate? Can you see how I felt about this one.

“Hey Ya!” was the sort of song you would see on MTV2 over breakfast, hear immediately afterwards in the car on the way to school, catch coming out of someone’s home room on your way to class, hear again at the fish and chip shop you’d skived off to over lunch, catch coming out of a builder’s van radio on the covert scurry back, cop once again on the drive time programming, then hear twice in the background while you did your homework. It was the last thing I heard in 2003 – playing, seemingly, in a loop in a friend’s living room (the same living room I’d later wake up in covered in rude drawings and various items of scrawled profane miscellany across my torso and face, the second half of Snow Patrol’s “Run” on the TV … the party was in every sense over). For me, “Hey Ya!” was the stuff of sickly sweet teenage hangovers, tongues made fuzzy by vodka red bulls, breath made rancid by the odd ciggy; it was ubiquitous to the extent that I suspect we all have our own “Hey Ya!”. There are like 25 more songs on this double album, though. And if you can believe they’re all either there or there about as brilliant … then you’ll know why awarding anything less than a perfect score is an impossibility. The syncopated hustle of “GhettoMusick”, the P-Funkin’ bounce of “Bowtie”, the absolute inevitability of “The Way You Move”’s groove … a list of standout tracks is just the track listing. And speaking of … hearing “Hey Ya!” roll into “Roses” was as exhilarating a moment in 2026 as it was in 2003-2004. Twenty years concertinaed into a couple of minutes of pop music. (Any drawings in permanent marker I was sporting today come courtesy of my children, though.) A special album primed for making memories alongside; here’s to many more.

Some good stuff but it's way too long and bloated

Here it is, the highest selling rap album of all time. I'm not a massive fan of this album, as I find a lot of it hard to listen to. Might just be my preference for New York or even West Coast style beats, though I love Outkast's 90s album. I just feel like at this point they start getting so experimental in their sound it kind of loses me more often than it wins me over. The Way You Move is a classic, Rooster is great, but the first few tracks on Big Boi's side aren't great. Bust is a solid track, with a great Killer Mike feature. War is another banger, maybe one of the strongest deep cuts. Last Call is a pretty good track as well. As a stand alone album, Speakerboxxx is decent, though not as good as Outkast's previous albums, especially those in the 90s. Now, to get to the Love Below. In retrospect, this is the beginning of a long journey that ended up with Andre3000 releasing a flute album. If you aren't well-versed in Outkast, just look up the Key and Peele skit about them, that pretty much explains this album. This starts off with some strange lounge-like track, then a skit where 3-Stack talks to god... telling her "head don't count." Ok. Then suddenly he's Cupid Valentino singing about Valentine's Day. You can't make this stuff up in some spaced out funk track with lyrics so bad they make George Clinton's songs seem like utter genius. First decent track on 3 Stacks' album is Roses, which was one of the singles. Behold a Lady is a good track., Pink and Blue is OK. She's Alive, Dracula's Wedding...wtf. Then some beebop jazz, because why not. The last track is decent as well. Speakerboxx is likely a high 3/5. Love Below... I don't even know. Probably Hey Ya alone is what makes this the top selling rap album of all time, but it certainly doesn't deserve that distinction otherwise. I used to think that song was likely just a random joke song Andree3000 made, but I'm no longer sure, having listened to the rest of the album. The reality doesn't live up to the hype for me, and I'm a big hiphop head. Super uneven. Barely a 3/5

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

yep

Speakerboxxx is doing most of the heavy lifting for this rating.

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

i could definitely grow to love this album!

Speakerboxxxx … never heard of this but really enjoyed the album

No skips

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

One decent song out of 40

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

ya pretty good

Starting with the Speakerboxxx side, just not really into this southern hip-hop sound. Some good stuff, beats, flows on this, but the vibe in general is doing nothing for me. Some standouts though like Flip Flop Rock. The Love Below definitely has more variety I feel, but a lot of it is just too smooth for my tastes. Hey Ya obviously being the standout single here. But yeah, two hours later, and I'm just not really that into this album. I tried listening to Stankonia a while back, and remember feeling similarly underwhelmed by it. It's good, but not really the type of hip-hop I go for. And at two hours long, it's a slog. Even each side by itself is a bit exhausting.

Never would've guessed it can be this good just from the cover

Classic

I saw how this was a double album, and over two hours, which immediately made me dread listening. But now at the end of this album I really enjoyed my time with it! It was so fun, some great tracks in there.

trebalo mi je dosta da odslušam. ovo su, ako shvaćam, u stvari dva albuma (mislim, jako se čuje), a traju zajedno preko dva sata... krenimo redom. prvi mi je album bio za rep standarde okej. malo možda iznadprosječan, ali ništa posebno. skitovi znaju dojaditi ali zato drugi... izvrstan! nije rep album jer ima svega živog, ali nevjerojatno, nisam to očekivao. na njemu je i klasični benger "hey ya!", al ima svega stvarno. ovaj bih album čak i tu i tamo slušao no šteta što je ovako spojeno. zbog toga nažalost moram dati trojku. prvi album ne može prismrdjet drugom

I never feel as millennial as when I sing along to Roses

I'm a huge OutKast fan, so from my perspective, this is a classic album. I think Big Boi's creativity is underrated, probably only because he was standing next to Andre 3000. It's a bit like pairing Banksy with Dali. But, some of the beats on 'Speakerboxxx' are incredible. His only problem is that it pales in comparison to 'The Love Below' which deserves more than five stars. The only negative is that I think Speakerboxxx drags a little bit towards the end. I don't love 'Tomb of the Boom', 'Last Call' or most of the interludes (with the exception of 'Bamboo'). If I was rating Speakerboxxx alone, I might be tempted to give it a 4/5.

Took 4 days to finish. Was expecting that Andre half will be exceptional. Turned out BigBoi first 6 songs are only ones that I liked. Disliked a lot here.. monologues with no music, monologues with just few beats, over the place random synth sounds, offensive lyrics, making Coltrain sound like a jingle from a Pepsi commercial/sailor moon intro…. I think I don’t even like Hey Ya anymore. Crazy bitch . Stupid bitch. Stupid add bitch….. man wtf Want to give it 2 but some bigboi songs are dope

Long album, but man has some great songs!

I love Outkast, but I had never listened to this entire double album before; I guess I thought the 2:15 length was too daunting. Obviously there are some of their classics on this album, but most of the songs were actually really great. I also enjoyed the juxtaposition between the two albums, but I give it a 4 just because I think I prefer some of their older songs and albums just a little more. But overall, I did enjoy this a lot.

Middle of the road for outkast

I was only familiar with some of the singles from this album, so it was a pleasant surprise to hear the whole thing (even if it was loooong!). I definitely thought Bad Boi’s Speakerboxxx was the better half, but André 3000’s The Love Below had some good tracks on it (including Hey Ya! which is the best track in my opinion). Some of the interludes were weird comedy and a bit cringe, but overall you have to applaud their creativity, especially seeing as they never hit highs like this again.

A few bangers

Speakerboxxx is definitely a 4⭐ Sadly, there is also The Love Below

This was amazing I enjoyed that there was a distinct sound between the two and I was surprised by how many songs i already knew. I also was obsessed with the features and I thought all of the interludes really added to the vibe.

GOING IN: Quite hopeful LISTENED WHILE: doing laundry FAMILIARITY: Know the artist, not the album SKIP RATE: Gave up entirely REPLAY VALUE: Once was plenty DISCOVERY CURVE: Never happened ALBUM ARC: All over the place VERDICT: Bit disappointing BODY'S VERDICT: Statue mode FAVOURITE TRACK: My Rating: 1 Really disappointed with this one.

More enjoyable than I would've guessed but at the same time it's quite long with way too many interludes.

Almost lost a point for being so long

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.

One of the only albums I didn’t finish on this list. I kinda liked where everything was going, but The Love Below felt kinda weird. DNF/5.