I had the La Face Christmas sampler with the original "Player's Ball" on it.
"The Love Below" is just not what I go to Outkast for. Outkast didn't become the mainstream juggernaut they're known for being, until "Stankonia". They decided to go further down that path
I can't say I blame them.
The crazy shyt is most of the people I talked to that loved "Stankonia", thought that was their first album. I played their earlier albums and it was legit fukking up people's minds, that this group was so eclectic, and had been around since the early/mid 90's.
Fred.
yeah, the one they didn't want to be on rapping about Christmas at first lol
yeah, i get it.
my sister was the same way, she's in her 40's, so she literally was listening to Kast from the very beginning,
so a lot like you, when she heard the Love Below, she was like, "what is this?"
yup, Stankonia is when they became media darlings and the MTV crowd ate that shyt up. "Ms Jackson" had that crowd singing along, lol.
yeah, it was like outside the Hip Hop world, the casuals had no idea about their previous albums.
like i remember Elevators video getting play on both BET and MTV but it wouldn't be until Ms Jackson when MTV would be on their dikks heavy.
i think Stankonia was the first for some because by that point, it was like another new "era" in hip hop and a new class was being introduced to them
i've always felt like, it use to be every like 4 years, there was a change in guard or shift in audience and a new group of listeners come along and "discover" what previous class had been in tune with and continued to be in tuned with or moved onto something else (not a whole, but a good number)
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and consistent 
