![]() ![]() “You might call us country, but we’s only Southern,” Big Boi raps on “West Savannah.” “Them n****s that think you soft and say y’all be gospel rappin’/ But they be steady clappin’ when you talk about bitches, and switches, and hoes, and clothes, and weed,” André says on “Return of the ‘G.’” “Is he in a cult? Is he on drugs? Is he gay?,” he continues, mimicking his critics. Retorts to these misconceptions abound on Aquemini. OutKast were getting pigeonholed - by a New York hip-hop establishment that deemed them “country,” by conservative rap purists who thought André was getting too weird, by gangster rap fans and Atlanta locals who loved the hard-partying pimps of the first album but weren’t down with the more meditative ATLiens.
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