Official OutKast Coachella Thread

[RTF]

Nas wasn't fucli

Depends on what stage said British act was on, if it was a dance stage then I would say so. Nas' name might not have been largely placed on the ad, but you're the final act to preform your considered the main event. As you saw from the video many people still stuck around for him after Pharrell left and it was good crowd so for all intents and purposes he pretty much was a headline act.

Heck if you wanna look at it another way, when the set times came out, he had top billing on the stage

 

[thephatmack]

I so wanted this to work, and wanted Outkast to kill it... and the crowd to understand that they were witnessing greatness.. all leave and go buy the back catalog.

However I think these festival organisers got this wrong from a headlining standpoint.

People know the song Hey Ya, but they dont know the group Outkast like that.

While to use a comparison on why Dr Dre worked and Outkast didnt...

Outkast vs Death Row and even Wu Tang globally right up until Stankonia (Ms Jackson dropped) - is not a fair competition.
Outkast were selling 500k max mainly in the southern states only vs Death Row / Wu Tang selling multi-multi platinum albums in U.S alone and hundreds of thousands more globally.

Even though B.O.B was groundbreaking.. its Ms Jackson that started the ball rolling...
again though, people sang 'I'm Sorry Ms Jackson' but didnt know the group singing it..

So ultimately Outkast don't have the global name to headline Cochealla after a hiatus.

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

We got a setlist from this? Made me peep stankonia and speakeboxx/love below

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

I remember in 96 when I was 12 and its was my birthday, my friend brought atliens round and just remember being fixated on the cover. Then elevators came on the tube that album is perfect

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

I so wanted this to work, and wanted Outkast to kill it... and the crowd to understand that they were witnessing greatness.. all leave and go buy the back catalog.

However I think these festival organisers got this wrong from a headlining standpoint.

People know the song Hey Ya, but they dont know the group Outkast like that.

While to use a comparison on why Dr Dre worked and Outkast didnt...

Outkast vs Death Row and even Wu Tang globally right up until Stankonia (Ms Jackson dropped) - is not a fair competition.
Outkast were selling 500k max mainly in the southern states only vs Death Row / Wu Tang selling multi-multi platinum albums in U.S alone and hundreds of thousands more globally.

Even though B.O.B was groundbreaking.. its Ms Jackson that started the ball rolling...
again though, people sang 'I'm Sorry Ms Jackson' but didnt know the group singing it..

So ultimately Outkast don't have the global name to headline Cochealla after a hiatus.

every Outkast album went platinum

 

[thephatmack]

every Outkast album went platinum

Looks like you are right.
I remember the source doing a breakdown of where all the sales came from thats all.

Here is another way to look at it.
If ask my wife (Music fan in general) or sister (who is a soul singer song writer) both in the UK...
Sister knows Outlast but nothing pre Ms Jackson. Yet she knows Gin and Juice from Snoop, Drop It Like Its Hot.. She knows Nas from I Ruled The World.

While my wife.. she knows the songs Ms Jackson and Hey Ya, also I like the way you move.. but wouldnt have a clue who performed them.

My wife / my sister = 80% of the coachella crowd.

 

[RTF]

I so wanted this to work, and wanted Outkast to kill it... and the crowd to understand that they were witnessing greatness.. all leave and go buy the back catalog.

However I think these festival organisers got this wrong from a headlining standpoint.

People know the song Hey Ya, but they dont know the group Outkast like that.

While to use a comparison on why Dr Dre worked and Outkast didnt...

Outkast vs Death Row and even Wu Tang globally right up until Stankonia (Ms Jackson dropped) - is not a fair competition.
Outkast were selling 500k max mainly in the southern states only vs Death Row / Wu Tang selling multi-multi platinum albums in U.S alone and hundreds of thousands more globally.

Even though B.O.B was groundbreaking.. its Ms Jackson that started the ball rolling...
again though, people sang 'I'm Sorry Ms Jackson' but didnt know the group singing it..

So ultimately Outkast don't have the global name to headline Cochealla after a hiatus.

I agree people don't know they catalogue like that but all of their albums did numbers. All of them. Elevators was a top 20 hit. Atliens sold 1.2m by 98. Aquemini went double platinum.


It's more of about people not knowing distant southern hip hop like that. It's funny though as they have some of the most influential albums in the genre.[DOUBLEPOST=1397650823][/DOUBLEPOST]

Looks like you are right.
I remember the source doing a breakdown of where all the sales came from thats all.

Here is another way to look at it.
If ask my wife (Music fan in general) or sister (who is a soul singer song writer) both in the UK...
Sister knows Outlast but nothing pre Ms Jackson. Yet she knows Gin and Juice from Snoop, Drop It Like Its Hot.. She knows Nas from I Ruled The World.

While my wife.. she knows the songs Ms Jackson and Hey Ya, also I like the way you move.. but wouldnt have a clue who performed them.

My wife / my sister = 80% of the coachella crowd.

The average person knows more OutKast songs than Nas plehboi.

 

[mixtapedude]

thanks for this

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Looks like you are right.
I remember the source doing a breakdown of where all the sales came from thats all.

Here is another way to look at it.
If ask my wife (Music fan in general) or sister (who is a soul singer song writer) both in the UK...
Sister knows Outlast but nothing pre Ms Jackson. Yet she knows Gin and Juice from Snoop, Drop It Like Its Hot.. She knows Nas from I Ruled The World.

While my wife.. she knows the songs Ms Jackson and Hey Ya, also I like the way you move.. but wouldnt have a clue who performed them.

My wife / my sister = 80% of the coachella crowd.

Stankonia and Speakerboxx/Love Below are their highest selling records so i'd imagine people would know those ones first. the real hip hop fans would know Elevators, Jazzy Belle, Rosa Parks, Skew It On the BarB, etc.

its a shame the fans werent in the know

 

[thephatmack]

I agree people don't know they catalogue like that but all of their albums did numbers. All of them. Elevators was a top 20 hit. Atliens sold 1.2m by 98. Aquemini went double platinum.


It's more of about people not knowing distant southern hip hop like that. It's funny though as they have some of the most influential albums in the genre.[DOUBLEPOST=1397650823][/DOUBLEPOST]
The average person knows more OutKast songs than Nas plehboi.

Yes but I ruled the world came out in 1996... Nas had a mainstream global hit with Lauren Hill in 1996..
Ms Jackson was 2000...
ATLiens was 1996.

In other words the crowd was quiet because they dont know Outkast from pre 2000..
So anything in the set list pre 2000 was new to most apart from your hiphop heads.

 

[bangbreh]

reps to the breh that post a link to the set, i'm not goin through 68 pages.

 

[hex]

Mainstream music fans think "Stankonia" is Outkast's first album. I moved out to the 'burbs around '01, people out here thought that was their debut album.

Fred.

 

[RTF]

Yes but I ruled the world came out in 1996... Nas had a mainstream global hit with Lauren Hill in 1996..
Ms Jackson was 2000...
ATLiens was 1996.

In other words the crowd was quiet because they dont know Outkast from pre 2000..
So anything in the set list pre 2000 was new to most apart from your hiphop heads.

Check the charts. Kast had a single as big as that on every album. If I Ruled The World didn't even crack top 20 iirc

 

[Torrential]

Rosa Parks and Aquemini have been stuck in my head all week brehs

 

[prophecypro]

Is there any place that has the performance in full? This one dude on youtube had the full set and everyone was linking to him but its been taken down since. I wanted to watch the set again as I was thinking about the opening 30 mins.

Anyone know if there's another link or even a download out there?