Speakerboxxx/The Love Below [Edited] by Outkast

Pros: One of the best rap albums in a while!
Cons: Some tracks are too "out there", but even those can be great at times.

Outkast... What can I say? One of my favorite commercial groups and with good reason. These days it's hard to find any hope in commercial hip hop. Artists like Nelly and Chingy have really made it hard for fans of good music to stick with their favorite g ...

Pros: Variety,creativity,excellent musical expression and performance,lyrical cleverness and inventiveness
Cons: overindulgence in musical hero worship in the case of "The Love Below"

These records may well be the albums of the year...in terms of adventurousness without compromising commercial accessibility,they certainly are without peer in 2003. Overall,I feel there are more hits than misses on both albums,even though the aesthetic ...

Pros: Good music.
Cons: Would it matter?

For its day and time, The Love Below is a masterpiece. Barring Prince and Lenny Kravitz, there just aren’t other musicians out there doing it like this. With the exception of the instrumental version of “My Favorite Things”, this is an outstanding ...

Pros: Listeners get variety as the two artists explore hip-hop.
Cons: Parental guidance is still recommended despite the clean and enhanced version.

Does anyone remember the 1995 Source Awards when Outkast was booed? I’m wondering what the naysayer’s are saying now that this album is being promoted as the best album of the year? Right now one of this albums songs is number one on Billboard ...

Pros: Very creative, really a great listen
Cons: Somewhat unconventional, not much collaboration between the duo.

Much like many of the others out there, the geekiest of the music geeks, I regard Outkast in much the same light as Radiohead, Bjork, and Tool. Which is to say, these are all musical artists that really push the boundaries of music, experiment seemingly ...

Pros: 2 discs for the price of one
Cons: If you don't like profanity you can get the edited version

If you are anything like me you can't narrow the kind of music you like down to one genre. This double disc album that features both OutKast stars on their own individual efforts (Andre "Ice Cold" 3000 on "the Love Below" and BigBoi on "Speakerboxxx").
Big Boi's album is an ode to bass, starting with a intro so bass-clad your stomach rumbles. My favorite song on Speakerboxxx is probably his first single off the album, "The Way You Move."
Andre "Ice Cold" 3000's album, "The Love Below," is by far the most innovative album that I have heard in years. He has brought a new style to the drum machine, a new flavor to jazz, introduced piano to rap, and still found room for a little electric guitar.