>>I think there's a perception that Big Boi is the regular homeboy > and Andre >>the flamboyant eccentric, but Big Boi is still pretty out there. >>They're both individuals. > > i never really considered big boi to be "regular" or anything, but > his style is certainly more compatible with other hiphop. its like > any other genre of music, sometimes if you go too far outside of > it, it just sounds bad as opposed to sounding "different".
I guess it depends on how you define hip-hop. I don't know, I think it's a controversial record which is good in some ways. >>I love the Andre CD too. I don't think it's try-hard at all, very >>spontaneous in fact. >>The songs are great. That's my view. >>I guess the Common album got the same reaction, but I loved that > too. > i really dont know what to say about that common record. >common > used to be a top emcee, now hes on some joker type business. and > you can talk all you want about not trying to appeal to white > media, but common now endorses coca-cola. they werent offering > that circa "i used to love h.e.r.". sad. i found his record to be > nearly as unlistenable as andre 3000's. I saw Carl Craig charted Common's album his number 1 in a magazine so I reckon I'm onto something. ;) I'm not too fond of Coca ads either, but it's not like he's selling heaps of records, and that album would have been expensive to make. He has a daughter, the money may be for her.
