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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Intro | |||
| 2. GhettoMusick | |||
| 3. Unhappy | |||
| 4. Bowtie Featuring Sleepy Brown & Jazze Pha | |||
| 5. The Way You Move Featuring Sleepy Brown | |||
| 6. The Rooster | |||
| 7. Bust Featuring Killer Mike | |||
| 8. War | |||
| 9. Church | |||
| 10. Bamboo (Interlude) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 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 | |||
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At a time when experimentation is taboo in most overground rap, that's all Outkast seem intent on executing. Firstly, the double CD Speakerboxxx/The Love Below has no cohesive link, other than the fact that it sounds like a pair of solo albums stitched together to demonstrate exactly how Andre's yin works to augment Big Boi's yang. Andre 3000's The Love Below disc rates as the more eclectic of the two, given that, on it, 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 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 collaborations to a minimum, once crooning alongside Norah Jones on the cool yet sappy "Take Off Your Cool", and once with Kelis. Boi fulfils his Dungeon Family duty with flying colours by flipping some dirty southern up-tempo raps over electro beats on "GhettoMusick". By the time Cee-Lo sermonises on "Reset", Speakerboxx and Love Below rate mostly as majestic and inspiring, with the remaining 23 per cent being just plain incredible. --Dalton Higgins
Description
'Speakerboxx/The Love Below' is a double disc set featuring two solo albums from Outkast's Big Boi and Andre 3000. Although both have a disc to themselves, each of them have collaborated on the other's albums. The duo have retained their signature sound of Parliament/Funkadelic inspired hip hop which has been branded "Sophistifunk", and teamed up with such artists as Norah Jones, Jay-Z and Killer Mike. The package is also the soundtrack to a HBO film based on the stories from the music.