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    TOUR DATES: Big Boi

    Most of y’all know that Big Boi’s album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty was one of the best albums of the year, so I’m glad to see that he’s touring to support it after a long hiatus. Unfortunately there is no word on whether Andre 3000 will make any appearances at [...]

    August 19, 2010 1 Comment

    REVIEW: Big Boi – Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty

    In 1994, I became obsessed with hip hop and music in general. The album that did it, Outkast’s debut, Southernplayalisticcadillacmusik. Prior to that point, all I knew about Southern hip hop was that I thought the Geto Boys were the most “real” rap group I’d ever heard in my life, “My Mind’s Playing Tricks On [...]

    July 8, 2010 2 Comments

    New Music (That Jive Doesn’t Want You to Hear?): Big Boi – Lookin’ For Ya Feat. André 3000

    So the word around the interwebs is that there was/is some apparent beef between Big Boi and Jive about this song making it onto the final cut of Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (which it didn’t). Jive didn’t ‘know what to do with it’ (WTF is that about?) and in a way they set out to make it disappear. HA! [...]

    June 8, 2010 No Comments

    New Music: Big Boi – Shutterbug

    Big Boi – Shutterbug [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Big Boi just dropped his first single, “Shutterbug” off his upcoming Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty album. Right from the jump the beat comes in and just snatches you. It’s that old school 80′s type beat - fit for candy painted whips and long [...]

    April 6, 2010 No Comments

    The 6 Most Anticipated Albums of 2010

    Even though there might not be any breakout stars for 2010, there are several blockbuster and possibly game-changing projects on deck for 2010.

    December 10, 2009 3 Comments

    REVIEW: Big Boi at Club Soda, Montreal

    Photos by EvaBlue. PLEASE SUPPORT! Bonjour! Big ups to our homie Laurent and his peoples at 33 Mag in Montreal, Canada for providing this amazing review of this show! Look for more cross-border collaborations with Couch Sessions and 33 Mag real soon! After a fast and absolutely unscientific survey, I can affirm that nobody could [...]

    October 22, 2009 1 Comment

    Montreal:Empire Isis, Concert with Big Boi TOMORROW

    Empire Isis – Participate [Audio clip: view full post to listen] If you’re in Montreal, you best the head over to Club Soda Saturday night to check out my homegirl Empire Isis and Big Boi of Outkast perform. Moroccan-born Empire Isis has been making movies up North for quite some time now, with her blend [...]

    October 16, 2009 No Comments

    SXSW: Afropunk Showcase with Big Boi, Dallas Austin, K’naan Janelle Monae, and Whole Wheat Bread

    This showcase is gonna be insane! Big Boi of Outkast is performing with a LIVE BAND, and the Dallas Austin Experience as well. K’Naan and the ever sassy Janelle Monae will be on the bill as well. Also include is the Florida Black Punks Whole Wheat Bread who we profiled way back in 2005. My [...]

    March 10, 2009 2 Comments

    Big Boi – Something’s Gotta Give (featuring Mary J. Blige)

    A very dope and overtly political song from Big Boi from his solo album, entitled Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty which drops this year. The track is slightly cliched’ but its good to see Mary J back in form.

    July 31, 2008 No Comments

    Big: Atlanta Ballet x Big Boi Opens Tonight

    Anybody down in Atlanta going to this? I’m not the biggest ballet fan, but this type of thing is such a good look for Big Boi. It pretty much Outkast can do pretty much anything and still come out on top.  However, didn’t we all think that Andre 3000 would do something like this first? [...]

    April 10, 2008 No Comments