Regarded by many as the greatest Southern rap album ever, 1998’s Aquemini is the connective tissue between Outkast’s beginnings as regional hip-hop heroes and the duo’s full-fledged pop stardom. While their first two LPs featured no shortage of André 3000 and Big Boi’s tongue-twisting rhymes and the Dungeon Family collective’s off-kilter beats (courtesy of Organized Noize and...(展开全部) Regarded by many as the greatest Southern rap album ever, 1998’s Aquemini is the connective tissue between Outkast’s beginnings as regional hip-hop heroes and the duo’s full-fledged pop stardom. While their first two LPs featured no shortage of André 3000 and Big Boi’s tongue-twisting rhymes and the Dungeon Family collective’s off-kilter beats (courtesy of Organized Noize and themselves), Aquemini was the creative leap forward that turned an already critically acclaimed group into thought leaders of the hip-hop avant-garde. Long jam sessions with a rotating cast of live musicians yielded their lushest music and most adventurous arrangements to that point; lyrically, the pair began exploring different avenues of creative thought. But instead of breaking up the band, they leaned into that duality while giving the music a singular cohesive vision. Big Boi (an Aquarius) remained vivid in his tales of harsh street realities, while André 3000 (a Gemini) began embracing more conscious material and flights of kalimba. Together, as Big Boi raps in “Return of the ‘G,’” “We worked for everything we have and gon’ stick up for each other, like we brothers from another mother/Kind of like Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.” Produced mostly by the duo and Mr. DJ, Aquemini’s sound is a mix of the distinctly Southern and the distinctly alien. Nowhere is this more apparent than the single “Rosa Parks,” which is built on hollow snares and punishing bass but beams with earthy acoustic guitars and a harmonica solo courtesy of André’s stepfather, Pastor Robert Hodo. Or take the “Da Art of Storytellin’” suite: “Pt. 1” tells tales of earthly vice over a head-bobbing swirl, while “Pt. 2” speaks of the apocalypse through mountains of distortion. Elsewhere, slower songs like the title track, the indelible “SpottieOttieDopaliscious,” and the sprawling jam “Liberation” shimmer like an update on the opulent arrangements of Isaac Hayes or Earth, Wind & Fire. It’s an album that prophesied the future of Atlanta—a misunderstood scene that was once dismissed as “regional,” but eventually became the center of the rap universe itself.
2 有用 Arthur 2015-05-18 19:09:17
倒不是说一点音乐性没有,跟姆姐那俩LP差不多叽里呱啦加配乐加点唱歌加小剧场,但念词几乎连点韵律什么节拍,一点让人不觉得无聊的东西都没有,真还不如念听力给我听,知道你有Abortion什么的很深刻。最后一名挤进滚石500
6 有用 蓝色雨 2018-04-29 16:41:45
乐器人声采样之间的切换行云流水 北鼻我真的傻了 黑炮竟然能好听成这个样子
1 有用 Jenova 2022-11-17 22:11:14 山西
说实话这张非常牛但论给俺的震撼还得是头一次听的第一张,流浪者就不是按传统hiphop采样制作beat这种路数来的,人更像是个band,黑人音乐大熔炉,erykah badu都来了,neo hiphop吧🐶
1 有用 黏黏雲端 2021-11-29 21:12:48
Synthesizer挺好玩,他们还没被南部嘻哈污染的时候还挺好听
10 有用 lostbook失書 2022-02-03 10:04:26
Arthur哥听的太尖了 就这水平我劝你别听歌了
0 有用 Planet Telex 2024-10-02 02:56:09 江苏
这么舒服要是还不喜欢那真是我的问题了
2 有用 协议和 2024-09-05 02:23:28 江西
我还是觉得这张是他们最好的专辑 流畅丰富又不像二专后半张大量氛围堆叠有些疲乏 各单曲质量平均 还大概率影响了后世喇嘛做出好孩子疯城 对P-funk元素的运用更多是全面吸收而不是简单的拼贴 和四专五专比整体性要好太多了
0 有用 少年老王 2024-10-17 09:55:00 河南
滚石500大唱片排名49位。南方说唱代表作,丰富、实验、超前。
0 有用 13acK4u_x 2024-11-16 16:30:33 广东
舒服
0 有用 泽维尔酱 2024-09-26 13:31:08 美国
随性、潇洒,充满顽强的生命力,就像Rosa Parks两分三十秒那个肆意的口琴间奏。不得不说,OutKast树立了一种立足于真实的创作模式——情是真的,唱词是赤诚的,乐器也多是原声录制的