Heading up a Virgin Records subsidiary label, Purple Ribbon Entertainment, and fostering a stable of new comers and notorious Atlanta-based artists, Big Boi is spearheading a renaissance in the dirty South. While Andre has been gallivanting around Hollywood, getting face time in films like Be Cool and Four Brothers, Big Boi’s gaze remains fixed on Atlanta. What we do together is all about the music and if the music ain’t right we ain’t doin’ it.” Dre has graduated to a new level and is moving on to something else. We’re not breaking up, but there is a form of evolution happening. Regaining composure Big sets the record straight. We didn’t rape nobody and nobody went to jail. Everybody move to the back of the bus," which earned OutKast a law suit from the now deceased civil rights figure after whom the song takes its name. The group had largely steered clear of any real controversy, save for a troublesome ‘98 single "Rosa Parks." The song brandishes the chorus "Ah-ha, hush that fuss. "The music was sounding good, but we needed controversy to sell it,” he continues. “We needed it and appreciate that y’all did that for us, Big Boi muses over a speaker phone while getting his hair cut in the Purple Ribbon offices in preparation for a photo shoot. Was the media making a mountain out of a molehill over the artistic parting of a pair whose previous work together, including Aquemini and Stankonia received critical acclaim for balancing brainy beats and dirrrty funk? But over two years down the road OutKast’s name still looms large on the hip-hop horizon. In many minds this budding division of Atlanta’s six-time GRAMMY Award winning hip-hop duo meant the future of the group was in doubt. The group’s principle players, Andre 3000 (né Andre Benjamin) and Big Boi (Antwan Patton) went the Kiss route with the new album(s) simultaneously offering two separate records under one package, to explore their artistic differences. 23, 2003 release date for OutKast’s fifth and most highly anticipated recording, Speaker Boxxx/The Love Below, the music press’ poison pins were primed. During the weeks and months leading up to the Sept.
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