Outkast

aside from the cold it is a good night to walk the five blocks home. Though our Writing the Body class advocates disconnected walking to get the full experience, I respectfully disagree and insert my headphones, still riding my musical high. With my Outkast playlist as the soundtrack, I walk across the empty parking lot, thinking about how not long ago the hotel was still open and usually pretty full. Now it has the appearance of something from a horror movie, or perhaps American Horror Story. Windows

Outkast in my opinion is easily the greatest duo in hip-hop history. The music that Big Boi and Andre 3000 have created are timeless, and they are one of the few acts to provide us with multiple classic albums over their career. As fans do with every group in music, listeners always pick one individual that they believe is the key to the groups’ success. Which can also be looked at as the Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, or Beyonce effect. Andre 3000 is the one that seems to attract the most attention

stage name of Andre Benjamin an American hip hop song writer who debuted in the 90s. In addition to being raised in a household by a single mother, he was born in 1975 and grew up around the streets of Atlanta, Georgia. Andre is part of the band Outkast, a vegan, an animal rights activist, has his own clothing line, actor and was an advocate and supporter of the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. He is nicknamed, “Ice Cold” for his outlandish style of fashion and is almost always seen having

As if I need to explain, there are many who doubt just why Outkast are such legendary icons in music. In a time where hip-hop music was dominated largely by the North, southern hip-hop artists were given little to no respect as far as being able to produce anything more than “booty shake music.” Enter Outkast, a laid back, eccentric duo from one of the ghettos of Atlanta (East Point//Southwest Atlanta {S.W.A.T.S} to be exact). Around 1992-1993, they emerge as a lyrical force that would not and

morality as market forces that persuade black culture (398). The song ‘Git up Git out’ by Outkast serves as a strong supporting example of Wests point that African Americans are threatened by nihilism due to their place at the bottom of the social ladder and the medias influences on their lifestyle. A hip-hop track that portrays this nihilistic and market driven attitude is called ‘Git up Git’ out by the Outkast. ‘Git up Git out’ is a Hip-hop track that portrays the nihilistic and market driven attitude

standards of society, and worthlessness. The Outkast members rap the line “Always asking gimme some, living life like a bum’’ from ‘’Git up Git out’’. This line represents Nihilism because it mentions poverty and overcoming homelessness that African americans face. The Lines ‘’I don't recall, ever graduatin at all, Sometimes I feel I'm just a disappointment to y'all’’ sung by Outkast holds a standard from society of continuing an education. A member in Outkast describes failing to graduate, and disappointing

about relationships and the roots of the lyrics you can see are motivate by his own life experience of living in home with strong love. So ultimately no one who is into songs really understands him there making him feel like a pariah or his words, an Outkast. All of this is discretely exposed in hyper and inspirational method in the song which is misleading but tells you that even if faced with walls you can get around them and still make it big in life if you really care about it. Whether or not people

Alternative rap versus southern rap The genre of hip hop has been around since the 1970s. Bronx, NY is the home of hip hop, and ever since rap left New York it has changed in many ways. A popular subgenre of hip hop is southern rap. Southern rap is rap music usually coming out of the southern United States. There has been many Southern states to have popularity in rap like Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida. Alternative rap is another subgenre of hip hop it came into prominence in the 1990s

Cultural Identity varies from person to person. Everyone has something unique about themselves that separates them from every other human being on earth. For some people it’s their ethnic background that divides them from the group, others could be clothing or their religion. I have several aspects that define my culture and demonstrates what makes me, me. My most dominant cultural aspects are travel, physical characteristics, education/career, and music. I have done a great deal of traveling

term that groups numerous indigenous groups together for no appropriate reason. Navajos are different from Apache who are different from the Black Foot community. Therefore, by appropriating “Native American” culture for their Grammy performance, Outkast was spreading a misunderstanding of the differences between Native American communities. Another example of this kind of cultural appropriation is exemplified in a more contemporary example: Lana Del Rey’s music video for her song entitled “Ride