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Regarded by many as the greatest Southern rap album ever, 1998’s Aquemini is the connective tissue between Outkast’s beginnings as regional hip-hop heroes and the duo’s full-fledged pop stardom. While their first two LPs featured no shortage of André 3000 and Big Boi’s tongue-twisting rhymes and the Dungeon Family collective’s off-kilter beats (courtesy of Organized Noize and... (展开全部) Regarded by many as the greatest Southern rap album ever, 1998’s Aquemini is the connective tissue between Outkast’s beginnings as regional hip-hop heroes and the duo’s full-fledged pop stardom. While their first two LPs featured no shortage of André 3000 and Big Boi’s tongue-twisting rhymes and the Dungeon Family collective’s off-kilter beats (courtesy of Organized Noize and themselves), Aquemini was the creative leap forward that turned an already critically acclaimed group into thought leaders of the hip-hop avant-garde.
Long jam sessions with a rotating cast of live musicians yielded their lushest music and most adventurous arrangements to that point; lyrically, the pair began exploring different avenues of creative thought. But instead of breaking up the band, they leaned into that duality while giving the music a singular cohesive vision. Big Boi (an Aquarius) remained vivid in his tales of harsh street realities, while André 3000 (a Gemini) began embracing more conscious material and flights of kalimba. Together, as Big Boi raps in “Return of the ‘G,’” “We worked for everything we have and gon’ stick up for each other, like we brothers from another mother/Kind of like Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.”
Produced mostly by the duo and Mr. DJ, Aquemini’s sound is a mix of the distinctly Southern and the distinctly alien. Nowhere is this more apparent than the single “Rosa Parks,” which is built on hollow snares and punishing bass but beams with earthy acoustic guitars and a harmonica solo courtesy of André’s stepfather, Pastor Robert Hodo. Or take the “Da Art of Storytellin’” suite: “Pt. 1” tells tales of earthly vice over a head-bobbing swirl, while “Pt. 2” speaks of the apocalypse through mountains of distortion. Elsewhere, slower songs like the title track, the indelible “SpottieOttieDopaliscious,” and the sprawling jam “Liberation” shimmer like an update on the opulent arrangements of Isaac Hayes or Earth, Wind & Fire. It’s an album that prophesied the future of Atlanta—a misunderstood scene that was once dismissed as “regional,” but eventually became the center of the rap universe itself.
曲目 · · · · · ·
- Hold On, Be Strong
- Return Of The 'G'
- Rosa Parks
- Skew It On The Bar-B
- Aquemini
- Synthesizer
- Slump
- West Savannah
- Da Art Of Storytellin' (Part 1)
- Da Art Of Storytellin' (Part 2)
- Mamacita
- SpottieOttieDopaliscious
- Y'All Scared
- Nathaniel
- Liberation
- Chonkyfire
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相比之下，kendrick lamar的编曲就是一泡屎。
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我脑里的天才概念就是他们，outkast的织体过渡都非常漂亮。还有很棒的节奏
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听感一般 不知道为什么好
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好的hippop一定是在音乐性的基础之上去发展verse和flow的，outkast这张做的非常完美。
可以说意识超前吗？一定是可以说的吧？！每首都好听！重听听到earthgang让我大惊。 @2023-08-14 13:33:17
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架构师 2010-03-19 15:27:17
潜龙碟影
厚积薄发的Outkast，Aquemini是他们最经典的一张。它像鲸鱼，露在外面的只是其一小部分，还有庞大的体积藏在深水里。André 3000每张口说一句词，就感到他还有十句词保留着，没有说。低调行事，潜龙勿用，是真正高手的作风；家喻户晓，誉满全球，是高手身份的凸显。 (展开)
路逸驰 2024-01-04 11:05:34
跟我听滚石最伟大专辑第500/500|《Aquemini》
这是一个我主观评价滚石2003年评选出的500张最伟大专辑的系列，作为一个半吊子的音乐爱好者，开这个系列是想给自己进行一场训练。一方面我不想让自己对一首歌只能说出”好听“、”牛X“这样乏味的辞藻，我希望能有像HOPICO或者Joe Creator那样从细节拆解出音乐人想法的能力；另... (展开)
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