Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
OutKast

As a 2 and a quarter hour long double album this one is more of a colossal task compared to a lot of albums on this list. Thank goodness Nintendo never got into the record label scene because they’d be splitting this shit in half and selling it off as two like a Pokemon game. That double-sided nature does make this a bit harder to grade, while you could argue it is weighed down in length and by some of its less than stellar tracks you could just as easily say that the amount of quality and quantity here is what solidifies itself as an incredible album in spite of its feature film runtime. I would say for the sake of this review that I lean more towards the latter side of thinking. Speakerboxx is definitely the more traditional hip hop album half with a more cohesive sound while The Love Below is the more experimental (and much hornier, though I guess that comes with the premise) 2nd half which had me worried was going to start missing more than it hit around halfway into its runtime before landing back on its feet near the end. I enjoy both sides for different reasons

5