Taking Sides: Andre 3000 vs. Big Boi

The thing is, Andre was so crazy with his fashion choices that it kind of overshadows the fact that Big Boi is also crazy; he's also the one who takes more risks with his rapping (all of Andre's "experiments" have been rooted in singing; he's actually a pretty conventional rapper in terms of flow).

bbs risks are often gimmicky and unnecessary though - that choppiness in his flow is just jerky and serves no real purpose.

dres flow might be 'conventional' (tho you must be forgetting that ? song on stankonia and dozens others) but his language makes up for it.

Oh yeah, Andre's genius absolutely lies in the words he chooses; that's pretty much a given.

I disagree that the choppiness in BB's flow serves no real purpose.

Doubtless b-boi. I never know with Dre if he'll blow me out of the water or come of as just plain weird, but b-boi's flow is so self-assured, so full of rubato and rhythmic trickery, and his rhymes are so consistantly poetic that he's pretty unbeatable.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, December 9, 2001 8:00 PM (7 years ago)

Gotta go with the Clove'. He answered it correctly way back in the day.

Only one of them has his own line of dog shampoo:

http://www.bigboiandbobbi.com/products.html

and has a son named bamboo

Me and Bamboo and our dog shampoo,
travelin' and livin' off the land

shampoo for my real dogs, real poo for my sham dogs

https://www.gq.com/story/andre-3000-outkast-gq-style-interview

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oSdHgq3oBD8