Idlewild

Three years since the release of 5-time Grammy Award-winner OutKast's landmark #1 double-CD 'Speakerboxx/The Love Below', Antwan 'Big Boi' Patton and Andre '3000' Benjamin return in a BIG way with their first appearance together in a motion picture, and the most eagerly anticipated new album of their career, 'Idlewild'.

'Mighty O', the first single from 'Idlewild', finds Andre 3000 and Big Boi rhyming together on a track for the first time in six years, since OutKast's triple-platinum CD of 2000, 'Stankonia'. 'Mighty O' was co-written by Andre 3000 and Big Boi and produced by Organized Noize. A second single, the Big Boi solo track 'Morris Brown' (featuring Scar and Sleepy Brown), co-written by Big Boi and Scar and produced by Andre 3000 for Slum Drum!, features Eddie Ellis conducting the Morris Brown College Band.

An old-school fusion of swing, blues and hip-hop, the 'Idlewild' album includes: 'The Train' (featuring Scar and Sleepy Brown), co-written by Big Boi, Scar, and Sleepy Brown and produced by Big Boi for Boom Boom Room Produc­tions; 'In Your Dreams '(featuring Sleepy Brown and Janelle Monáe, co-written by Big Boi, Janelle Monae, and Sleepy Brown, pro­duced by Organized Noize); and 'Idlewild Blue (Don't Chu Worry 'Bout Me)', written and produced by Andre 3000.

Jul 2005

The sixth OutKast album, '10 the Hard Way' is a throwback to the 'Southernplayalisticadillakmusic' days. The album is all strictly hip hop, with production duties supplied by Organized Noise.