Speakerboxxx The Love Below Music Cd

Outkast - Speakerboxxx The Love Below

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Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below      Artist : OutKast      List Price : $21.98 USD        Your Price : $12.97 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2003-09-23      Studio : La Face      Label : La Face      Avg. Customer Rating : (19 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Speakerboxxx The Love Below      A few good songs and the rest is no good.      Rating:      In this album, we have two sides of things. Speakerboxx and the Love Below. Speakerboxx is mostly rap based. Pure hardcore rap. The Love Below is hiphop with some more soul. The Love Below is better. All in all, you are only buying this for 2-4 songs, so you might as well download them.     Customer Reviews for Speakerboxxx The Love Below Cd      Great Album - But Come On      Rating:      Yeah this is a great album with songs ranging from jazz to rap and evrything in between but I just want to know - Does anybody remember Outkast? It did not use to be about "TRYING TO BE ORIGINAL" they used to be great MC's. This album is definitely a fall-out in those regards but non-the-less this is a wonderful album and you would not expect anything less from Outkast. Pick this up but if your a fan than you know my pain. Editorial Reviews for Speakerboxxx The Love Below Audio Cd      Amazon.com      At a time when experimentation is taboo in most overground rap, that?s all Outkast seem intent on executing. Firstly, this double CD has no cohesive link, other than the fact that it sounds like a pair of solo albums stitched together to demo exactly how Andre?s yin works to augment Big Boi?s yang. Andre 3000?s Love Below disc rates as the more eclectic of the two, given that 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 sick (meaning 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 collabos to a minimum, once crooning alongside Norah Jones on the cool yet sappy "Take Off Your Cool", and once with Kelis. Boi fulfills his Dungeon Family duty with flying colors by flipping some dirty southern up-tempo raps over electro beats on "GhettoMusick". By the time Cee-Lo sermonizes on "Reset", Speakerboxx and Love Below rate mostly as majestic and inspiring, with the remaining 23 per cent being just plain incredible --Dalton Higgins