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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is a double album by the hip hop group OutKast, released on September 23 2003 on Arista Records. The release includes a solo album from each of the group's two members. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 2004. Speakerboxxx has Big Boi performing tracks more representative of the older OutKast style, while The Love Below, the solo project of André 3000, is performed in a more funk-based style which has earned him some comparisons to Prince.

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Overview

Big Boi recorded Speakerboxxx in approximately a month; while André spent two years on The Love Below, and completed the album two weeks before the album's due date. His effort is substantially longer than his colleague's album, clocking for almost 78 minutes, compared to 56 minutes of Big Boi. Featured guests on Speakerboxxx include Sleepy Brown, Jazze Pha, Jay-Z, Cee-Lo, Killer Mike, Goodie Mob, and Ludacris. Guests on The Love Below include Rosario Dawson, Norah Jones, Kelis, and Farnsworth Bentley.

Big Boi included André 3000 in producing and cowriting quite a bit of Speakerboxxx. On the other hand, the only song on The Love Below featuring a rap by Big Boi is "Roses." [link]

Critical success

The album was released on September 23 2003 on Arista Records. In December 2004, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was certified diamond by the RIAA for shipping more than ten million units (or five million sets--double albums count as two units). MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, and The Notorious B.I.G.'s Life After Death are the only other hip-hop albums ever certified diamond. The album also achieved critical success; it was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. In Australia, "Hey Ya!" was voted #2 on the 2003 Triple J Hottest 100, the biggest alternative music poll of its type in the country.

Chart success

The album reached the top of the Billboard 200 in 2003 and was a best-selling album around the world. "Hey Ya!" went to number one the Billboard Hot 100 in Canada and Australia and has charted in 28 countries around the world. "The Way You Move" also topped the US charts in 2004 and has charted in 17 countries around the world. "The Way You Move" knocked "Hey Ya!" off the top of the charts in the US, the first time a band has had one song replace another of its songs since 40 years ago, when The Beatles did it in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania (coincidentally, the music video for "Hey Ya!" parodies 1960s music performances such as The Beatles' appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show). The third single released from the album was "Roses". The fourth and fifth singles released were "Prototype" and "Ghetto Musick" respectively.

Track listing

Speakerboxxx

  1. "Intro" (Produced by Cutmaster Swiff) - 1:29
  2. "Ghetto Musick" (Produced by André 3000) - 3:56
  3. "Unhappy" (Produced by Mr. DJ) - 3:19
  4. "Bowtie" (featuring Sleepy Brown and Jazze Pha) (Produced by Big Boi) - 3:56
  5. "The Way You Move" (featuring Sleepy Brown) (Produced by Carl Mo) - 3:54
  6. "The Rooster" (Produced by Carl Mo) - 3:57
  7. "Bust" (featuring Killer Mike) (Produced by Big Boi) - 3:08
  8. "War" (Produced by Mr. DJ) - 2:43
  9. "Church" (Produced by André 3000) - 3:27
  10. "Bamboo" (Interlude) - 2:09
  11. "Tomb of the Boom" (featuring Konkrete, Big Gipp and Ludacris) (Produced by Big Boi) - 4:46
  12. "E-Mac" (Interlude) - 0:24
  13. "Knowing" (Produced by Mr. DJ) - 3:32
  14. "Flip Flop Rock" (featuring Killer Mike and Jay-Z) (Produced by Big Boi) - 4:35
  15. "Interlude" - 1:15
  16. "Reset" (featuring Khujo Goodie and Cee-Lo) (Produced by Big Boi) - 4:35
  17. "D-Boi" (Interlude) - 0:40
  18. "Last Call" (featuring Slimm Calhoun, Lil Jon, The Eastside Boyz and Mello) (Produced by André 3000) - 3:57
  19. "Bowtie" (Postlude) - 0:34

The Love Below

  1. "The Love Below" - 1:27
  2. "Love Hater" - 2:49
  3. "God" (interlude) - 2:20
  4. "Happy Valentine's Day" - 5:23
  5. "Spread" - 3:51
  6. "Where Are My Panties?" - 1:54
  7. "Prototype" - 5:26
  8. "She Lives in My Lap" - 4:27 (featuring Rosario Dawson)
  9. "Hey Ya!" - 3:55
  10. "Roses" - 6:09
  11. "Good Day Good Sir" (interlude) - 1:24
  12. "Behold a Lady" - 4:37
  13. "Pink & Blue" - 5:04
  14. "Love in War" - 3:25
  15. "She's Alive" - 4:06
  16. "Dracula's Wedding" - 2:32 (featuring Kelis)
  17. "The Letter" (interlude) (does not appear on edited CD or Explicit LP versions) - :21
  18. "My Favorite Things" - 5:14
  19. "Take Off Your Cool" - 2:38 (featuring Norah Jones)
  20. "Vibrate" - 6:33 (edited CD, Explicit LP), 6:38 (explicit CD, Edited LP)
  21. "A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete)" - 4:50 (edited CD, Explicit LP), 5:11 (explicit CD, Edited LP)

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