The main release features Big Boi and Andre 3000 standing in front of a flag. The CD release of the album issued with two different covers. The album wins two Grammy Awards including Best Rap Album in 2002. Jackson” (#1 Pop & R&B) and “So Fresh, So Clean” (#30 Pop, #10 R&B). Released to near unanimous acclaim from fans and critics, it spins off three singles including “Ms. The album is the Atlanta duos most musically diverse to date, combining elements of funk, hip hop, rock, metal, jungle, and drum and bass. Outkast record the album in their newly acquired recording studio, (formerly Bosstown Studios previously owned by R&B singer Bobby Brown), allowing them to record with fewer time constraints and giving them more time to experiment in the studio. The title is based on the concept of “Stankonia” as a fictional land at the center of the earth, seven light years below sea level. Produced by Earthtone III (Outkast) and Organized Noize, it is recorded at Stankonia Recording Studios in Atlanta, GA from Late 1999 - Mid 2000. # 18yrs # OUTKAST # STANKONIA On this day in music history: Octo“Stankonia”, the fourth album by Outkast is released. “Stankonia” enters the Billboard Top 200 and R&B album chart at number two, and is certified 4x Platinum in the US by the RIAA. In November of 2015, the album is reissued on vinyl to commemorate its fifteenth anniversary (on Black Friday Record Store Day), and is pressed on Orange/Yellow/Purple/Black splatter vinyl, limited to 3,000 copies. A limited number of copies of the original double vinyl LP release are pressed on translucent orange vinyl. Jackson", "So Fresh, So Clean" and "What Is Stankonia?" The disc remains in print only briefly before being deleted. It also features the music videos for "B.O.B.", "Ms. "Stankonia" is also released as a limited edition DVD-A/Video disc in 2003, remixed into 5.1 surround sound. The alternate artwork is semi censored on the CD booklet, airbrushing out the prominent breast and nipple in the image, also cropping the image at the woman’s buttocks. The second and limited CD cover, features a psychedelic painting of a naked woman with a unicorn horn on her head. The actual flag photographed on the album cover hangs in Outkast’s recording studio. The flag is supposed to represent “a place that exists apart from the country experienced by the masses”.
Rather than the normal red, white and blue “stars and stripes”, the flag has black stripes and a black field with inverted stars.
Def-Alt: Hip Hop Renaissance - #18yrs #OUTKAST #STANKONIA On this day in music history: Octo“Stankonia”, the fourth album by Outkast is released.
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