Pitchfork: The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 20-01

its absolutely a standout

yall are trying to second guess me here -- as w/ check the rhime & juicy, i think this is absolutely a great representative of their careers

mamacita

nononononononoNONONONONONONONONO

just... no

smgdh

how is a 7 minute funk track with barely any rapping representative of Kast's career (btw, I 1000000% agree with you on Juicy and Check The Rime)

are we going to pick a different song from the pfork list each week to debate whether its really truly great/relevant/canonical/familiar? why is this coming up NOW?

wouldn't harassing scott pl to release the files get to the bottom of the mystery faster than finding another thing that makes you go hmmmm?

is 'things that make you go hmmm' really truly great/relevant/canonical/familiar?

"Things That Make You Go Hmmm" is just a "Bust a Move" rewrite.

dunno about you guys but the diverse kids at my high school totally jammed 'things that make you go hmmm' all the time

what about the converse kids?

are we going to pick a different song from the pfork list each week to debate whether its really truly great/relevant/canonical/familiar? why is this coming up NOW?

― da croupier, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:48 (28 minutes ago)

i think you answered yr own question, but rly it can be interesting

i just want to make sure everyone knows that i have several black friends

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Hey guys, I just listened to Juicy for the first time, on Youtube. It was pretty good.

how is a 7 minute funk track with barely any rapping representative of Kast's career (btw, I 1000000% agree with you on Juicy and Check The Rime)

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 7:45 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

because they were weirdos who did tracks like epic 7 minute funk jams w/ spoken word stories of being young & coming of age in ATL

fwiw my vote was 'skew it on the bbq' above this but this was much preferable to the more trad sounding stuff (bridge between 'elevators' & 'bob') and a much cooler choice imo than 'rosa parks'

In what world is "BOB" trad sounding??

that's not what he was saying I don't think but yeah whiney otm lol @ "spottie" being representative of early kast

it's as representative as anything

there's no fucking rapping on it you dumb dipshit

"revolution no. 9 by the beatles is representative of the beatles because it's a DETOUR IN A CAREER FULL OF DETOURS WHOOOAaaaoaooaaahttp://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm278/chri7stopher/scanners.gif!"

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in fairness, it's somewhat representative of The Love Below

which came out in the '00s

your irony detector is either broken or just completely turned off

got it.

there's no fucking rapping on it you dumb dipshit

― assface johnson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, September 15, 2010 2:45 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this sort of proves the point

which isn't to say that it's the MOST representative, but i would say that it is 'very representative'

like how can you not listen to big boi's part in that song & not say it's representative of big boi

er, minus the first 'not' there

Because like three dozen dope tracks from 1994-1999 have Big Boi RAPPING on them!

Antwan André Patton (born February 1, 1975), better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American rapper, song-writer, record producer and actor, best known for being a member of American hip hop duo OutKast alongside André 3000.

unless you think Spottie is extra AMERICAN?

calm down, kaka poopie pants!

HEY GUYS SORRY TO INTERRUPT BUT DO ANYONE KNOW IF "RETARDEDEST" IS A WORD THANK IN ADVANCE

-KANTLIPS

don't think so kantlips, sorry

Type O wz robbed.

spottie ottie is a dope song that has spoken word rapping imo
& whiney u are a doof

hey, what's this song that won our very own aquemini poll? how unrepresentitive!

Outkast poll #3: Aquemini

really, who gives a damn what's representitive anyway? it's not a best artists of the 90s poll.

loooooool

really, who gives a damn what's representitive anyway? it's not a best artists of the 90s poll.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 7:32 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

i agree, but we were talking about whether it was 'representative' or not cuz deej said it was

still sounds representative to me -- conceptually, artistically, not exactly close to their most out-there shit.

and its way closer in vibe feel concept & execution to the stuff they did when they were younger than 'the love below'

dudes ... sometimes you rap like THIS, and sometimes you rap like THAT

Outkast's foreign policy: B-
Domestic policy: B+

theres no wanky love song shit, its about going clubbing & meeting girls & when that life meets with "real life situations" & about growing up, in a specific geographic place& time, semi-autobiographical, piece of ATL nightlife/life in general, universal but local, basically a perfect split point between experimental artiness - i.e. the spoken word approach, the extended length - and the more traditional concepts & styles & sounds theyd worked with before .... awesome track that showed them first starting to really upend shit

so perfect for this era, where ppl are overrating the crap out of conservative faux-UGK rappers, that suddenly dudes want to HONOR THE FIRE of trad earlier Outkast where they "rap their asses off" (c. tom breihan) & have totally 180'd on the worthiness of the way outkast actually made a name for themselves as one of the greatest rap groups ever by playing w/ song form & experimenting musically.

imo aquemini is their best record (and spottieottie one of the album's highlights) for exactly this reason -- it was the pt at which they actually started to really emerge as, like, multidemensional musical minds but kept it anchored in the past & w/ a strong sense of personal identity, the tension & chemistry really taking shape

ha, sorry if this has already been pointed out, but "Gold Soundz" won the Crooked Rain poll too.

CROOKED RAIN CROOKED POLL

posted this in the aquemini thread:

I think part of what makes "Spottieottiedopalicious" hit so hard is how in both Dre & Big Boi's verses, they start out as these surrealistic descriptions of chemically-enhanced nightclubbing experiences, but by the end of each verse shit has gotten too real in a very sobering way.

― grin and ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ it (The Reverend), Friday, June 25, 2010 7:10 PM Bookmark

^^^good post

Every time I listen to "Spottie" I promise myself to pay attention the lyrics but the horn charts and the rhythm distract me.

*TO the lyrics

deej all the way otmed up