Here’s a mix of Andre 3000 and Big Boi’s features and b-sides from 1992-1999. Although I am a huge Outkast fan and I often find myself craving for music from them that I haven’t yet thoroughly investigated, I will not cosign that every song on this mix displays the true talent of this dynamic duo. Still, if you are as big of an OutKast fan as we are here at the iLL house, it’s so dope to hear music from them that doesn’t make you want to quit rap and move back to California. Even they had their process it seems. It’s like watching Kobe Bryant’s middle school basketball game (Go Lakers!). Witness the road to greatness.

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So on this funky Friday, I figured it would only be appropriate to share the sounds that have funked our eardrums and birthed the first chapter of iB4the1.

Fela Kuti “Water No Get Enemy” + The Price Is Right = “Gentleman’s Kool-Aid”

De La Soul “Trying People”+ Tilt = “The HereNow”

OutKast “Da Art of Storytelling pt.2” + Drizzletron’s sanity (or lack thereof) = “Finding Emo”

Black Eyed Peas “Alive” x Micheal Jackson’s passing = “Circus Nights”

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And that’s just the production. What say YA’LL, Drizz? N.I.C.? Ada?