I just started high school when this dropped. Changed the way i listen to music.

Last 4 Speakerboxxx tracks might be some of my favorite deep cuts. Knowing, Flip Flop Rock, Reset and Last Call.

Also Knowing is aka Art of Storytellin' Part 3

SHE LIVES INNMY LAPPPPP

That’s so special

so glad I have this on vinyl

Crine I was 2 when this dropped

Still one of my favorite albums ever especially The Love Below

Really dope double disc, although TLB is my favorite, I'm going to show some love to Speakerbox

This is interesting because the account is so much different from the other story that has been told, which is that big boi made speakerboxx, was ready to release it solo, and then when Andre found out it was about to drop he made TLB in a week

I assume the truth is somewhere in the middle

you call this hip hop?

Been bumping this so much last few days

That bridge in Ghettomusick

Church

Pink and Blue

Spread

Draculas Wedding

Day in the Life

In 2004 I got my first personal CD walkman and my first personal CDs that my mom and I picked out at Rasbutins Record Store in the Bayarea of CA.

It was Kanye West College Dropout, Ice Cube Greatest Hits & Outkast Speakerboxxx/Love Below.

I was 7 years old in 04 and thats when my own self exploaration of music started.

My mother and father were alreadly hiphop heads since the 80s up until 2005ish so I grew up off of their stuff already like 2Pac, Ice Cube, Too Short, E40, DMX, Master P, Dr. Dre, LL Cool J, Snoop Dogg, Ice T, Mac Mall, Spice 1, NWA, Bone Thugs, Scarface & Eazy E. While my older brother had a bunch of CDs for his era which was the era of the time him and his friends was into & a part of (my own teen era is the 2010s shout out class of 2014 HS).

My brother throughout the 2000s had Three 6 Mafia the Most Known Unknown, The Game Documentary, Lil Wayne Tha Carter 2, Kanye West Late Registration, E40 My Ghetto Report Card, 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Trying, Chamillionaire, Ludacris, The Federation, Young Jeezy, Mac Dre, CamRon, T-Pain, Dem Franchize Boyz, Keak Da Sneak & David Banner plus some mixtape CDs (they would sell them at the gas station and sometimes Rasbutins would have them too such as Mac Dre & 50 Cent GUnit mixtapes and demoes) - and i would sneak them to bump them from him too time to time.

Classic. This Outkast album is a major part of my personal self discovery in childhood.

These songs from Speakerboxxx/Love Below: The Way You Move, Bust, Prototype, Hey Ya & Pink n Blue - they are burned into my head forever & are a major blueprint for me.

this album being a "major part of my personal self discovery in childhood" is too true

I genuinely think its the album that opened my mind up to other genres like Electronic, Indie Rock & more experimental stuff which I dived way more into in High School while listening to some off the computer and radio in middle school (and in my adults years I listen to basically "everything" including foreign language music lmao).

Before that album I was only exposed to Rap, RnB/Soul, & some jazz and some pop/80s rock. Such as what I mentioned plus Luther Vandross, Keith Sweat, Boys 2 Men, 112, RKelly, Mariah Carey, Ray Charles, Kenny Rodgers, Prince, Michael Jackson, Journey, Madonna and a few others.

But Rap was the main thing then followed by RnB/Soul & then everything else was on occasion besides Prince & Journey.

I though, never really thought much outside of Rap & RnB besides Prince until Speakerboxxx/Love Below & my middle school years which when the internet became way more accessible and had more ways to get music like Limewire.

Now besides Rap and RnB, my fav genres are also indie/psych/folk rock, electronic/dance & orchestral/jazz instrumentals.

I owe a lot to that album(s) & that walkman

happy valentines outro

she lives in my lap is really the best prince tribute ever

Music used to mean so much man.

Damn Dre been gone forever, idlewild was okay n don’t care for his lil flute

impastas