ATLiens (studio album)
by OutKast

From HoldenM 09/18/2025 20:56

A staggering step up from the excellent Superplayalisticadillacmuzik. Tighter songs, hotter bars, handsome production. A more focused and polished sound. Every song is good to great. So confident and effortlessly cool that it's never afraid to veer into the more sentimental. And even at an hour, there's not a gram of fat on this.

Some brilliant tracks on this, but lacks the consistency of Aquemini. ATLiens, Wheelz of Steel, Mainstream and Decatur Psalm are my favourites. To me no other hip hop artist has been able to replicate this sound, it's soooo cool

Creative and innovative hip-hop release, truly an alien vibe, highly recommended.

From VictorVale 08/07/2023 17:34

Não erram em álbuns cheion!

Top 3 Songs

1. ATLiens
2. 13th Floor/Growing Old
3. Two Dope Boyz (In A Cadillac)

From C_Krug2009 06/13/2022 14:59

ATLiens has its own aesthetic that makes it great as a great hip hop album and that's its flow. I like it but compared to Aquemini, Aquemini is the better of the two. Maybe I am more used to Aquemini because I heard it so many times, but ATLiens is good but its not as developed as Aquemini.

Regardless it's something a hiphophead should hear.

I was expecting more spacey production based on what the critics were saying and it has like maybe 4 songs like that, the rest is something else. I gotta hear it more because I know what to expect and it will click eventually

Album Rating: 83.93
(1,175/14)


1. "You May Die (Intro)" Organized NoizeJoi GilliamMyrna Crenshaw 1:05 - 95
2. "Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)" Organized NoizeAndré BenjaminAntwan Patton
2:46 - 87
3. "ATLiens" BenjaminPatton Outkast 3:50 - 90
4. "Wheelz of Steel" BenjaminPatton Outkast 4:03 - 91
5. "Jazzy Belle" Organized NoizeBenjaminPatton 4:12 - 87
6. "Elevators (Me & You)" BenjaminPatton Outkast 4:25 - 84
7. "Ova da Wudz" (featuring Witchdoctor) BenjaminPattonErin Johnson
Outkast 3:48 - 70
8. "Babylon" Organized NoizeBenjaminPattonAndrea and Ivan 4:24 - 91
9. "Wailin'" Organized NoizeBenjaminPatton 2:00 - 76
10. "Mainstream" (featuring T-Mo and Khujo) Organized NoizeBenjaminPattonRobert T. BarnettWillie Knighton 5:18 - 76
11. "Decatur Psalm" (featuring Big Gipp and Cool Breeze) Organized NoizeCameron GippBenjaminPattonFrederick Bell 3:58 - 76
12. "Millennium" Organized NoizeBenjaminPatton 3:09 - 74
13. "E.T. (Extraterrestrial)" (featuring Witchdoctor) BenjaminPattonJohnson
Outkast 3:07 - 91
14. "13th Floor / Growing Old" Organized NoizeMarqueze EthridgeBenjaminPatton
6:50 - 87

Amazing album, one of the defining moments of southern hip hop.

From teague 04/19/2020 17:26

Already a lot more artistically ambitious than Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. I do think it falls a little flat in a couple of the songs, but there's not really a bad track on here. I love how they went with alien/space theme, the beats are really spacey and cloudy. Of course André 3000 and Big Boi are in rare form here. It's obvious to me why ATLiens is so fondly remembered.

From Boltzmann 10/21/2018 09:40

If rapping is percussion, Outkast is jungle: they accelerate and put the break on their flow like they tryna shake someone off their tail. No one really does it like them, probably ‘cause no one can. Maybe with a bit of imagination you could say Eminem took some inspiration from them, though with much less swing (he did apparently think Andre 3000 was one of the best rappers ever). Together with the catchy hooks and funky, minimal beats, this album is a bliss to listen to.