One of the first hip hop acts to rise from the American South, school friends
Andre 3000 and Big Boi (aka OutKast) were part of Georgia's Goodie Mob crew
before breaking into the US Top 20 with debut album
Southernplayalisticadillicmuzik (1994). More funky, soulful and innovative than
their contemporaries, the duo helped define the Dirty South sound, scoring US
Number 2 albums with ATLiens (1996), Aquemini (1998) and Stankonia (2000). The
huge success of US Number 1 single Ms Jackson brought international acclaim,
before Hey Ya! became one of the anthems of the decade, winning a ...