Posts tagged as Big Boi
Kate Bush, "Misty"
The claymation video for this two-minute segment of the new Kate Bush song "Misty" is surprisingly realistic. The song, which is 13 minutes long on Bush's new album, 50 Words for Snow, is sung from the perspective of a woman who falls in love with a snowman. The love is doomed, of course, as all love is, by death. (As no. 1 Kate Bush fan Big Boi said recently to Awl pal Doree Shafrir, her new music "is just very somber and very chill.") And it is sad, in the video, the melting, which would indeed happen if a person hugged all up on a snowman under the covers. It's sad just like real life is sad. But the most realistic part is in the beginning, when Bush wakes up in the middle of the night to find to find that a snowman has climbed into her bed. She does a great double-take, which, yes, again, one would.
"Look At Me Now" And Five Other Good Rap Songs From This Week
The venerable Busta Rhymes shows us what people mean when they talk about an MC "blacking out" on a track. He rhymes so fast, enunciates so clearly, without pausing to take a breath, you'd think he'd lose consciousness. In so doing, he steals this song—with it's huge and spacious beat, which was produced by club music maestro Diplo and sounds like it will explode dance floors like the Yin Tang Twins "Wait (The Whisper Song)" did six years ago—from proprietor Chris Brown and fellow guest star Lil Wayne both. READ MORE
Rap Music Is Good Now Because Rappers Aren't Afraid To Be Weird
Proclamations that a certain era is "good" or "bad" for music are always specious. There's both good and bad music being made all the time, of course, in all different genres, and that's been true even during eras accepted as either "golden" or "dead" for whatever style you might be talking about. What's easier to talk about, what I think people are actually assessing when they talk in this way, is what's popular at a certain time in history—stylistic characteristics of the music that happens to be selling the most, or being played on popular radio stations. Of course, people often disagree about stylistic characteristics, too, whether they make for good or bad music. Different ears hear differently. Even among people as susceptible to group-think as music critics—who all proclaimed, every single last one of them, that Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was a straight-A, five-star, 10.0 masterpiece and the undisputed, inarguable, scientifically proven 100 percent guaranteed best album of 2010, objectively speaking. READ MORE
Big Boi Performs "Shutterbugg" On Jay Leno
Big Boi went on Jay Leno last night to perform "Shutterbugg" from the dynamite new Sir Luscious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty album. Leno was smiling when he introduced him, but he's going to be pissed when NBC gives Big Boi his job.
Big Boi Gives It Away
Now available for free download, just in time for the long weekend: The Big Boi Mixtape For Dummies: Guide To Global Greatness — 28 tracks mixing up old and new material from the half of OutKast who, may we remind you once more, has a new album coming out next week. (You can preview it here! It's quite good!)
Who Big Boi Really Samples in "General Patton"
For real, keeping up with Big Boi has been a challenge of late. When he's not giving us previews from his new, official product coming out next month, he's going straight samizdat with the Andre 3000 collabos that Jive records won't allow anyone to pay actual money for. Lost in the general haze of sturm und purp, though, was this weird little question that got my music-geek dander up. When "General Patton" hit, 72 internet news cycles ago, initial writeups gave credit for that fat chorus-and-orchestra sample to... an opera "by Georg Solti"? The conductor? Who never actually wrote any music? No. That didn't sound cricket. READ MORE
Big Boi And Andre 3000, "Lookin' For Ya"
So here's a great new song from Big Boi (I know, I know. But he just keeps making great new songs!) and his Outkast partner Andre 3000. Unfortunately, it seems as though it will might not be included on his Def Jam album, Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Return of Chico Dusty, when it hits stores next month. According to the track list released this week, "Lookin' For Ya" and another wonderful collaboration between the two, "Royal Flush," will be omitted because of contractual shenanigans being enacted by Outkast's label, Jive Records. This is terrible. READ MORE
Big Boi, "Shutterbugg"
The video for "Shutterbugg," the spry new-ish single from Big Boi's forthcoming Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty, is pretty bare-bones (guess the Crown Royal sponsorship cash wasn't that much), but that doesn't make the clip any less fun: there's a lighthearted decapitation of Big Boi, a couple of Tron-costumed dancers making with the futuristic sexytime, and a wall display of Solo cups that you probably shouldn't recreate at your next keg party because it would probably last 15-20 minutes before turning into a heap of brightly colored plastic. [Via]
