I'm gonna catch a lot of hate for this thread but f**k it, I dont think dude has ever rhymed about anything of substance. I had da art of storytellin on repeat today and noticed big boi's verse actually took away from the song. While andre's verse was deep & introspective, all big boi did was tell a story about how he got head from some groupie. They've never been on the same level lyrically or conceptually. I'm not even a big fan of outkast (mostly just an Andre fan), but Andre should've gone solo while he was in his prime. Nowadays a solo LP by him wouldn't be as great as it would have been if he made it in 94-98
Did Big Boi Hold Andre 3000 Back?
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spliz
SplizThaDon
only thing that ever held Dre back was Dre...PERIOD...and u can see the difference in work ethic right about now...he has noone holdin him back from droppin an album...Big Boi already workin on his 3rd solo hip hop work...Andre has ZERO solo hip hop work..
fendi_mane
Banned
3 Stacks held 3 Stacks back with that weird sh1t. He could have dressed like a fukking idiot and still just rapped. He wanted to go off and sing though and he lost at that point. It was big for a moment but now it's just like 
. If he dropped a RAP album with dope producers when he did the Unk remix, he would be huge right now.
. If he dropped a RAP album with dope producers when he did the Unk remix, he would be huge right now.
JoelB
All Praise To TMH
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their contrast in styles is what made them good..
how did big boi hold him back? when they tried the solo thing with speakerbox/love below..big boi's cd was better..and hes had very good solo albums...if anything, its the other way around..
how did big boi hold him back? when they tried the solo thing with speakerbox/love below..big boi's cd was better..and hes had very good solo albums...if anything, its the other way around..
them being a duo in general hurt them both. 
big boi had too much of a shadow to crawl from behind.
dre haters mad cuz he isn't as active as big boi.
kinda a fukked/fukked thing if ya ask me.
that said 3k>>>boi
but boi>>>90% of the game
the goat duo
big boi had too much of a shadow to crawl from behind.
dre haters mad cuz he isn't as active as big boi.
kinda a fukked/fukked thing if ya ask me.
that said 3k>>>boi
but boi>>>90% of the game
the goat duo
The love below is fukking classic, and outside of hiphop one of the best reviewed albums of the 2000s together with Stankonia.3 Stacks held 3 Stacks back with that weird sh1t. He could have dressed like a fukking idiot and still just rapped. He wanted to go off and sing though and he lost at that point. It was big for a moment but now it's just like
Big Boi is one of the best of all time, top 25, 3 Stacks top 10.
He didn't hold him back, they delivered 4 classic hiphop albums and 1 classic creative whatever album.
Andre had passion for other things like fashion and acting, Big Boi seems to only love hiphop and balling in the club. Cats are acting like either of them owe us anything after 13 years of hard ass work.
hell nah nikka,people wuz actin like Andre wuz sum lyrical god and big boi wuz a peasant until recently...I don't know when this shyt happened where nikkas decided big boi wuz a bum and andre woulda made a great solo artist...id imagine him being boring as shyt as a solo artist.
ya'll love these smilies too much. Constructing whole post to use em.fendi_mane
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TLB isn't classic and im a huge Kast fan. I hate when fans gets enamored by the name and go crazy.
spliz
SplizThaDon
see this the shyt I dont respect...da fukk u mean?...Big Boi did ALL those same things Andre did...fashion..AND actin..STILL held outkast down for damn near a decade by himself...and Speakerboxx>>>>Love Below...I dont give a shyt who rated it...and aint no way is a nikka in the top 10 without ANY solo hip hop work...the nikka could very well suck as a solo artist and we would never know..he could be great as well..but like I said we would never know..he never dropped nothin..there's TOO many artists with great SOLO careers and classic and/or groundbreakin SOLO albums to make Dre crack a top 10 all time list without any solo work...maybe a personal favorites list..but that's where it stops...
spliz
SplizThaDon
this is tru spit..shyt is becoming some type of trend to ignore big boi and it's fukkin disgustin...cause nikkas forget that everybody used to reach out to Big Boi for features over Andre for a while now..and im not even sayin Andre is not nicer...im sayin these nikkas is trippin for actin like Dre held the group together or Big Boi was holdin Dre back or some shyt...it's some ol rewriting of history shyt...cause Big Boi been the one holdin that group down...and keepin they name alive..for years while Andre been chillin..and makin empty promises on a solo album..
