ATLiens

I sit in the small, confined DJ booth of a hole-the-wall bar. Mike, better known as Cowboy, the ten-gallon hat wearing owner of Afterburners, invites me to come resume my DJ duties since I am on a two-week layoff from my factory job and larger crowds have once again began filing into the bar. I used to DJ on weekends for Cowboy before school and my full-time job became too much and his business began to slow down. I have to admit it feels good to be back in my old element. Afterburners is small

languid soul melodies, and mellow 1970s funk grooves. This has influenced many musicians in todays world. The second way he also influenced how todays world was how the hip hop production elements were used in music videos. The best example was ATLiens and Aquemini feature outer space-influenced production with echo and reverb effects made by Andre 3000. In the 1990s rappers rarely used faster more chaotic tempos to reflect rave culture in hip-hop scene instead the used slow laid back tempos. But

character interrupts himself with a fatal gunshot. "Softly as if I played piano in the dark / Found a way to channel my anger now to embark / The world's a stage and everybody's got to play their part," raps a manipulated sample from the Outkast song, "ATLiens", setting off the following song, "War Ready", sequentially leading up to the character's suicide. Throughout the EP, we experience the transformation of a broken man into his cocky, confident former self. Each song is filled with a combined sense

Picture this, two young, rebellious African-American males who are trying to do all they can to make it something out of their lives. They release their first album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, and the streets love them. Their next album, ATLiens gets even more acclaim from fans and now the world is listening. But it’s their next album, Aquemini, where Outkast really shows their courage. The duo begin talking about spaceships, time travel, conspiracies and other things that it would seem

in the 1990s, it wasn't until the early 2000s that it began to grow in mainstream culture. When we entered the 2000s, DJs started fusing crunk music with synths to produce the classic trap sound. Trap's fame arrived when Young Jeezy and T.I. The ATLiens emerge and made trap a fixture on their respective debut albums. In fact, T.I. titled his second album Trap Muzik. With his debut, Jeezy showed that trap had crossover potential. Despite his gritty lyrical content, his songs were widely played on