Stankonia

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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, released on September 23rd, 2003, also included historic singles. Both “Hey Ya!” and “The Way You Move” captured #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the album itself debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200. It received a rare Diamond-certification from the RIAA and took home “Album of the Year, ” “Best Rap Album, ” and “Best Urban/Alternative Performance” for “Hey Ya!” at the GRAMMY® Awards.

C1 Published by Organized Noize Music/Goodie Mob Music/Chrysalis/Lil' Bree Music (BMI)/Gnat Booty/Chrysalis Music, Inc./Slic Flo Music (ASCAP) D3. Published by Gnat Booty/Chysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc. (ASCAP)/Goodie Mob/Chrysalis Music, Inc. (BMI)

Gangsta Shit (feat. Slimm Calhoun, C-Bone& T-Mo)|4:41 (Produced by Carl Mo & Earthtone III) 4.5 - 5

B5 Published by Gnat Booty/Chrysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc./Hits From Da Bong Music, adm. BMG Songs Inc./Dez Only 1 (ASCAP) Their debut was an album bursting with the funk descended from the Isley Brothers, Isaac Hayes, and Curtis Mayfield in a way that was smoother than Dr. Dre’s G-funk stylings, more organic than Puff Daddy’s wholesale sampling of ’80s R&B, and more fluid and adventurous than hometown icon Jermaine Dupri’s sleek soul and pop arrangements. It was the music of Southern hip-hop, the “country rap tunes” pioneered by the late Pimp C, outfitted to a weary worldview that was cautious and specific about local dealings and paranoid about the greater world, but ultimately hopeful on universal levels—or, at least as hopeful as “Crumblin’ Erb” while “niggas killin’ niggas” can be. Do remember, this is André and Big Boi six years and three albums into their music careers. At 25 years old, the former high school classmates-turned-rap partners were no longer the babyface pupils discovered, groomed, and developed in the early 1990s by Atlanta production trio Organized Noize. The pair entered the year 2000 no longer coming-of-age, but two fully grown men with acclaim from critics, the support of radio, visibility on television, two Platinum albums, and a Grammy nomination for “Rosa Parks,” the lead single off Aquemini. All accomplished without minimizing their Southern individuality in a hip-hop still dominated by rappers from the East and West coasts.

Track listing

B5. Published by Gnat Booty/Chysalis Music, Inc./Dungeon Ratz Music, Inc./Hits From Da Bong Music, adm. BMG Songs Inc./Dez Only 1 (ASCAP) A4 Recorded at The Dungeon & Stankonia Recording, Atlanta, GA. Mixed at Stankonia Recording, Atlanta, GA