more than anything its crazy how enduringly, ig self-sufficient this record feels? most of this sounds like it could have come out yesterday, and i imagine thatll hold true for a long time. it also never feels compromised in any direction it stretches in...the big commercial hookiness feels totally natural next to the lyrical ambitions. kind of makes me think that such ideas of art construction are faulty at their core lol, just something that makes intuitive sense as a way to stop further thought. in either case, its stankonia! its loaded with elemental classics and tracks that, at the v least, dont embarrass themselves next to the elemental classics. theres an endlessly appealing Openness and even Vulnerability that unites both the silly lowbrow stuff and the big serious swings...if they dont all land the same, at least i know the ppl making it believed in all of them. and man with speakerboxx/love below being the last outkast thing i heard (courtesy of this project) i forgot how good the chemistry between the two can be...big boi's firey spewing intuition and andre's mega-calculated and densely crafted approach probably get more bounce off of eachother here than any other outkast record