December of last year, Outkast's Big Boi released his second solo album "Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors". Many were supremely let down, dubbed it as artistic restlessness, and a confused mess of undeveloped ideas. While others, aggressively disagreed (me being one of them). I fucking love this album. It's courageous, it's beautiful, it's diverse, I dig all 54 minutes of it and the 17 different vibes conveyed through it's 17 tracks. Big Boi is an ingenious producer, and collaborates with a varying cluster of musicians- Little Dragon, Jai Paul, Mouche & Scar, to name a few. But I dig this album not because I love every song intensely, but it's ballsy. He is basically saying fuck you to the preconceived universal notion that albums have to be a certain way. It instead he creates a piece of art, incorporating a myriad of different musical concepts into one eclectic roller coaster of fat tunes. The song above is one of the track's Little Dragon is on, called "Descending". When I first heard this a few weeks ago, I cried, and then listened to it 30 times. If Big Boi and Little Dragon got together and made a full length album, it'd be like this, and you want that.
Enjoy, and check out the album to find your hang.
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