8/6/2023 0 Comments Shutterbug big boi![]() ‘Gossip’, featuring UGK and Big KRIT, is equally riotous – the sound of three rappers gleefully dicking about in a studio. ‘In The A’ – opened by Big Boi repeating the “ I keep it playa while others choose to play it safe” line from his 2010 single ‘Shutterbug’ – is a raucous, bouncing stomp on which Big Boi, TI and Ludacris take it in turns to explain why they are more amazing than you. But somehow everything on ‘Vicious Lies…’ feels out of place, with songs constantly plonked next to songs they shouldn’t be plonked next to. It’s touching stuff.Īs a trio of songs they work, but scattered among the 14 other tracks on the album they feel out of place. Then there’s the soft, gentle, Spanish-sounding acoustic guitar of ‘Descending’, where Big Boi wails, “ Great Grandmomma gone/My daddy gone/From the bottom of my chest to my stomach goddamit/My daddy is gone”. “ Feb 28th, the day my daddy died”, he reveals on ‘Tremendous Damage’ before a heartbreaking five minutes unfold as a chorus sung by Ghanaian singer Bosko pleads, “ Just make it fade away”. Things get worse for Big Boi on two tracks that seem to cover the death of his father. The track’s tone is miserable and repentant, the sound of a man cut down by love. ‘She Hates Me’ has as straightforward a theme as the title suggests, and features a bit of Auto-Tuned sorrow from the lord of Auto-Tuned sorrow, Kid Cudi. Well, a few tracks on ‘Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors’ suggest the 37-year-old Atlantan has had a hard time of it recently. So why the need to remind the world who he is? OutKast’s hiatus is ongoing, but Big Boi has used the time to establish himself as a fiiiine solo artist, with the funky magnificence of his 2010 debut ‘Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty’. ![]() As half of one of the world’s most successful duos, he worked with Andre 3000 to create some of the weirdest rap ever, across six albums, between 19. ![]() There’s something humble about the spoken-word intro at the start of Big Boi’s second album, where he describes himself as “ one half of the minor OutKast” – an opening that doesn’t do justice to his status as hip-hop royalty.
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