OutKast
Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below
Label:  Arista 
Date:  9/23/2003
Length:  0:00
Format:  2CD
Genre:  Rap; Hip-Hop
  Category:  rock
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 The Love Below (Intro)    
      2.  
      		 Love Hater    
      3.  
      		 God (Interlude)    
      4.  
      		 Happy Valentine's Day    
      5.  
      		 Spread    
      6.  
      		 Where Are My Panties?    
      7.  
      		 Prototype    
      8.  
      		 She Lives in My Lap    
      9.  
      		 Hey Ya!    
      10.  
      		 Roses    
      11.  
      		 Good Day, Good Sir    
      12.  
      		 Behold a Lady    
      13.  
      		 Pink & Blue    
      14.  
      		 Love in War    
      15.  
      		 She's Alive    
      16.  
      		 Dracula's Wedding    
      17.  
      		 Vibrate    
      18.  
      		 Take Off Your Cool (with Norah Jones)    
      19.  
      		 A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete)    
      20.  
      		 [Untitled Hidden Track]    
      21.  
      		 Intro    
      22.  
      		 Ghetto Musick    
      23.  
      		 Unhappy    
      24.  
      		 Bowtie    
      25.  
      		 The Way You Move    
      26.  
      		 The Rooster    
      27.  
      		 Bust (with Killer Mike)    
      28.  
      		 War    
      29.  
      		 Church    
      30.  
      		 Bamboo (Interlude)    
      31.  
      		 Tomb of the Boom (with Ludacris)    
      32.  
      		 E-Mac (Interlude)    
      33.  
      		 Knowing    
      34.  
      		 Flip Flop Rock (with Killer Mike)    
      35.  
      		 Interlude    
      36.  
      		 Reset    
      37.  
      		 D-Boi (Interlude)    
      38.  
      		 Last Call (with Slimm Calhoun)    
      39.  
      		 Bowtie (Postlude)    
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      At a time when experimentation is taboo in most overground rap, that’s all Outkast seem intent on executing. Firstly, this double CD has no cohesive link, other than the fact that it sounds like a pair of solo albums stitched together to demo exactly how Andre’s yin works to augment Big Boi’s yang. Andre 3000’s Love Below disc rates as the more eclectic of the two, given that he’s turned in his emcee credentials to become a full-on funk-soul-jazz vocalist who mostly sings about items of love ("Happy Valentine's Day"), carnal lust ("Spread"), and female adoration ("Prototype"). Minus the big band schmaltz of "Love Hater" and cheesy cover jobs ("My Favorite Things"), Andre’s disc is sick (meaning great). As is to be expected, the Big Boi disc is less arty, more gangsta and worldly, and features the less-progressive guest raps of ATL crunk purveyors Lil’ Jon and The Eastside Boyz ("Last Call") and Jay-Z who rhymes the hook on "Flip Flop Rock". Unlike Big Boi, Andre keeps his collabos to a minimum, once crooning alongside Norah Jones on the cool yet sappy "Take Off Your Cool", and once with Kelis. Boi fulfills his Dungeon Family duty with flying colors by flipping some dirty southern up-tempo raps over electro beats on "GhettoMusick". By the time Cee-Lo sermonizes on "Reset", Speakerboxx and Love Below rate mostly as majestic and inspiring, with the remaining 23 per cent being just plain incredible --Dalton Higgins