Year: 2000.
Country:
OutKast discography rank: 2nd (out of 8 albums listed on BEA)
2000 rank: 7th
2000s rank: 51st
Overall rank: 334th
Average rating: 80/100 (from 910 votes).
Tracks:
1. Intro
2. Gasoline Dreams
3. I'm Cool (Interlude)
4. So Fresh, So Clean
5. Ms. Jackson
6. Snappin' & Trappin'
7. D.F. (Interlude)
8. Spaghetti Junction
9. Kim & Cookie (Interlude)
10. I'll Call Before I Come (Feat. Gangsta Boo, Eco)
11. B.O.B.
12. Xplosion
13. Good Hair (Interlude)
14. We Luv Deez Hoez
15. Humble Mumble
16. Drinkin' Again (Interlude)
17. ?
18. Red Velvet
19. Cruisin' In The ATL (Interlude)
20. Gangsta Shit
21. Toilet Tisha
22. Slum Beautiful
23. Pre-Nump (Interlude)
24. Stankonia (Stanklove)
indicates a top-rated track.
Top voted comments:
"This album gets unfairly labeled as a two/three hit wonder. First off, two of those three songs individually are greater than some artists entire discographies. Secondly, there are some majorly overlooked tracks on this album. B Real is on fire on Xplosion. Gasoline Dreams is one of Outkast's hardest tracks they've ever produced. Humble Mumble could have been a hit single on Sir Lucious Left Foot. Sure, there is a little filler, and the comedy skits aren't the funniest, but since when are skits on rap albums ever funny? It's not just one of Outkast's best, but one of the best hip hop albums in history."
- @ShaneSpear (Rating: 85/100)
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"I concur with a few of the comments below here that while great, Stankonia is too long. It gets a little draggy by the end, but at least there are some progressive, genre-bending songs towards the end and scattered throughout. Regardless of the listener fatigue that may incur, each track at least has something unique to offer.
So much P-Funk influence here, but they use it in their own, groundbreaking way. This was a fun album, one with peaks and valleys, but one of the most unique listening experiences I've had in a long time."
- @AAL2014 (Rating: 90/100)
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[these brackets is MY comments and inner thoughts]
May 22nd 2017:
Anthony: Siri, what’s the best OutKast album? [Either Stankonia or ATLiens]
Siri: ……..It is ‘Stankonia’ [good pick]
Anthony: heeeeeaaa (*breaths through nose*) heea- yeah if if you’re a mainstreamer [If that is such a bad thing??].
January 18th 2019:
OutKast Worst to Best
Anthony: *puts Stankonia at #1* [whaaaat]
Anthony:
“What I see as OutKast’s best album, in my number one and my best spot here: Stankonia. This record came out in the year 2000 [my favorite year for music hands down!], it is what I see is OutKast’s best and boldest album. Which believe me was not an easy choice to make considering how fantastic most of the duo’s discography is [hiphop-heads says ‘picking your favorite OK album is like picking your favorite child’]. Now, every of OutKast records up until this point had grabbed the attention of the hip hop world to some degree - which I will repeat again at this point was a feet in and of itself, considering how irrelevant the South was at the time in the grander scheme of things. But Stankonia put OutKast in a position where they essentially transcended all of those regional boundaries and really became a household name [real talk]. That can be attributed greatly to this album’s pop sensibility, it’s crossover appeal; I mean with the song Ms. Jackson alone [one of the best hip hop songs of all time and it never gets stale - come fight me] did for the duo’s career is gigantic. Not to mention it’s easily of the most overplayed songs of the 2000s [more like it’s easily one of the songs most deservedly of its airplay of all time]. Now I do have to say maybe all of these genre crossovers and this mass appeals makes Stankonia less of a hip hop purist pick for the duo’s best album, that typically goes to an Aquemini or an ATLiens instead [it happens way too often]. If your opinion is more from that angle, I could see how you wouldn’t really think very much of this album. But you know even though Stankonia offer some sweet moments that work well, for every track that fits that bill there’s another song on this thing that’s wildly weird and experimental [hell yeah]. Like a psychedelic funk hop Odyssey [pretty well-said summary right there. It’s still a breath of fresh air to listen to, thinking about how much they had of artistic freedom on here]. There’s not really a moment on this album, to some degree, that isn’t ambitious [real talk again], cutting edge [really spitting facts], catchy or strange as far as length and material. It also goes the distance like Aquemini did but it offers soo much more in terms of variation and sound. Even though this album had gigantic commercial appeal for OutKast, so many of the deep cuts on this thing, artistically, are way off the beaten path. Even further then much of what they’ve done up until this point. In a lot of ways, I see Stankonia as the shape of hiphop to come. As on this album, Big Boi and Andre pushed an emotional depth and a genre breadth that no other hip-hop artist at the time were. And wouldn’t for a while because - keep in mind - this record came out looong before we had Kanye polarizing people and blowing minds with his autotune opus 808s & Heartbreak [still wish I could like that record but I really don’t. Btw Stankonia sound like an inspiration to some of Kanye’s earlier efforts like TCD], and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and all the electro-pop fashions of Graduation. Not to mention this record was coming through with quirky weirdo fushions of pop and rap [a little bit of R&B too ya know], before Gorillaz would do the same too. If you wanna talk about record that are ahead of the curve, and challenge listeners to get outta their comfort zone, Stankonia is it. And not only is this record ahead but it’s also really well-executed. It has so many facets and phases and nooks and crannies to it [it Basically sounds like a revolution’s afterparty. It is damn cool]. I love the weird interstitial bits that bring us from one segment to the next and these like football huddle “BREAK!” lines that kinda bring us from one track or moment to the next [me too. More musicians should do that]. The skits on this thing and the interludes are consistently creative and hilarious [they’re short and sweet. If you think they’re too corny, what the hell are you doing back in your comfort zone buddy]. There are excellent explosive rock tinged bangers on here like Gasoline Dreams [‘alright, alright, alright, alright alright…’], and "Bombs . Over . Baghdaaad". Also supremely sweet and slick spots on this thing like So Fresh So Clean [mm mm mm of a track]. Meanwhile Snappin' & Trappin’, Toilet Tisha, and I’ll Call Before I Come,I think still stand as some of the weirdest things to ever come out of the South in terms of hiphop ever [and on top of that - it works! The songs]. Meanwhile Xplosion with B-Real of Cypress Hill Fame, as well as Erykah Badu on this record stands as some of the most essential hip hop features of the 2000s [there are a lot to pick there, but I really cannot disagree]. I also love that OutKast take the time to show some southern hospitality to Gangsta Boo on I’ll Call Before I Come[I won’t just pop over, out the bluuuuuuue… Well I just did. Dammit sorry]. Making that very necessary Three 6 Mafia connection there. While for many people this record may be a difficult listen because of how wild and varied it is and how much some of the more low-key cuts really demand from the listener [luckily I got through and understand its artistry] especially the closer, which is like a really weird sexual space-fantasy. Despite all the weirdness and the oddity of this album, you gotta give it to this record - because how many hip hop albums sound like this man [not many] even to this day. I think this album is still not appreciated to the degree that it could be. As many fans seem to more favor releases and OutKast’s discography that have a more traditional or consistent or predictable tone to them [used to be me. Not me now. Ha]. Meanwhile as far as my preferences go, I very much appreciate and embrace the madness of this record: I find it so colorful, so chock-full of character [same here. Thank you for finally being honest unlike 2017 lol]. Big Boi’s verses are fantastic, the flows on this record throughout are so amazing and intense especially the verse and flow that Andre brings on the opening to B.o.B, one of many KILLEr moments on this thing [funny thing: almost everytime this song comes on, I pretend like I’m performing the song, and when Andre starts rapping, I jump off the stage, and runs into plus around crowd, feeling the song fully]. Story and the details of Ms. Jackson that Big Boi brings to the table. The hilarious [hahaha-ha] We Luv Deez Hoez, as well as the killer posse cut Gangsta Shit. It’s just one great wild insane moment after the next where - despite the fact that Big Boi and Andre seemed to be in very different creative places - they were still very much complementing each other really well [a unique agent that OutKast has]. It’s sad to know that things kind o fractured past this point but still I guess it’s better to have loved and lost and at least gotten to this incredible peak of creativity than to have never experienced it at all”.
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