Speakerboxxx/The Love Below [Explicit Lyrics]

Disc: 1
1. Intro
2. Ghetto Musick
3. Unhappy
4. Bowtie - OutKast, Jazze Pha, Sleepy Brown
5. Way You Move - OutKast, Sleepy Brown
6. Rooster
7. Bust - Killer Mike, OutKast
8. War
9. Church
10. Bamboo (Interlude)
See all 19 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Love Below (Intro)
2. Love Hater
3. God (Interlude)
4. Happy Valentine's Day
5. Spread
6. Where Are My Panties?
7. Prototype
8. She Lives in My Lap - Rosario Dawson, OutKast
9. Hey Ya! [Breakup~Sex~Monogomous Relationship]
10. Roses
See all 20 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

The Love Below (Intro)
Love Hater
God (Interlude)
Happy Valentine's Day
Spread
Where Are My Panties?
Prototype
She Lives in My Lap
Hey Ya!
Roses
Good Day, Good Sir
Behold a Lady
Pink & Blue
Love in War
She's Alive
Dracula's Wedding
Vibrate
Take Off Your Cool (with Norah Jones)
A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete)
[Untitled Hidden Track]

Tracks:

Intro
Ghetto Musick
Unhappy
Bowtie
The Way You Move
The Rooster
Bust (with Killer Mike)
War
Church
Bamboo (Interlude)
Tomb of the Boom (with Ludacris)
E-Mac (Interlude)
Knowing
Flip Flop Rock (with Killer Mike)
Interlude
Reset
D-Boi (Interlude)
Last Call (with Slimm Calhoun)
Bowtie (Postlude)

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At a time when experimentation is taboo in most overground rap, that's all Outkast seem intent on executing. Firstly, this double CD has no cohesive link, other than the fact that it sounds like a pair of solo albums stitched together to demo exactly how Andre's yin works to augment Big Boi's yang. Andre 3000's Love Below disc rates as the more eclectic of the two, given that he's turned in his emcee credentials to become a full-on funk-soul-jazz vocalist who mostly sings about items of love ("Happy Valentine's Day"), carnal lust ("Spread"), and female adoration ("Prototype"). Minus the big band schmaltz of "Love Hater" and cheesy cover jobs ("My Favorite Things"), Andre's disc is sick (meaning great). As is to be expected, the Big Boi disc is less arty, more gangsta and worldly, and features the less-progressive guest raps of ATL crunk purveyors Lil' Jon and The Eastside Boyz ("Last Call") and Jay-Z who rhymes the hook on "Flip Flop Rock". Unlike Big Boi, Andre keeps his collabos to a minimum, once crooning alongside Norah Jones on the cool yet sappy "Take Off Your Cool", and once with Kelis. Boi fulfills his Dungeon Family duty with flying colors by flipping some dirty southern up-tempo raps over electro beats on "GhettoMusick". By the time Cee-Lo sermonizes on "Reset", Speakerboxx and Love Below rate mostly as majestic and inspiring, with the remaining 23 per cent being just plain incredible --Dalton Higgins

Customer Reviews:

Andre was great but Big Boi was questionable.......2007-06-04

I think that Outkast's Love Below/Speakerboxxx is unfairly bashed. Andre 3000's album was very innovative. Of course its not a hip hop album but its a creative album with hip hop elements added to it. When any great artist wants to break free from the tedious trend of rap or they just dont want to be confined to just hip hop only they make albums like The Love Below and Electric Circus. The only down side of this project is Big Boi's side Speakerboxxx. Standout Tracks on The Love Below: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY(crazy), SPREAD, PROTOTYPE, SHE LIVES IN MY LAP, HEY YA(before it got played to death by radio), ROSES, BEHOLD A LADY, DRACULA'S WEDDING, MY FAVORITE THINGS(even though its an instrumental Andre hooked it up) and A LIFE IN THE DAY OF BENJAMIN ANDRE(100 bars without slipping a step. FIRE!). Filler: Love Hater(awful) and Pink And Blue(not horrible but i cant get into it at all. Bottom Line: Andre 3000's The Love Below puts Andre above the average just by creativity alone. Not a dull moment on this side of the album. Standout Tracks for Big Boi's Speakerboxxx: GHETTO MUSICK, THE WAY YOU MOVE(before the radio killed it), WAR(Big Boi dropped some gems on here. I'll give him some credit), KNOWING, FLIP FLOP ROCK and RESET. Filler:Unhappy(garbage), Bowtie(what the ? is this?), The Rooster, Tomb Of the Boom(all those people on it and it still stunk),Bust(Killer Mike's verse was cool but the song is still suspect) and Last Call(the worst song on here and was Lil Jon on the hook necessary?). Bottom Line: Big Boi's Speakerboxxx is an obvious rush job. Besides the songs mentioned as standouts, the rest of the album is as bland as wheat bread. As a whole The Love Below/Speakerboxxx should not be missed by any OutKast fan. Andre 3000 side alone makes this a must have.

Best Album Ever!!!.......2007-04-13

These are my favorite albums of all time. These albums completely changed me and my prospective on the world. Once I finally got into this double album I felt that anything was possible. It took me about four listens all the way through both discs to really wrap my mind and spirit around it and truly feel how ridiculously amazing and ground breaking this album really was. If OutKast could put so much of their heart and soul forth and put together such a perfect funky, soul, ride of a double album and still teach, move, and inspire so much than there is no telling what I or anyone else could really do. These albums were the first and only "Rap" album to date to ever win the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2003 , but these albums are so much more than "Rap" albums. As a matter of fact Andre 3000's disc "The Love Below" has only four rap verses on it (three by him, one of which goes for the entire length of a song on "A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete") and one by Big Boi). These albums perfectly meld together every genre, feeling, and vibe without taking one millisecond for a breath of air. These albums can be a little hard to keep up with, but if you let Big Boi and Andre 3000 pull you through their kaleidoscope world at their own break neck speed you will not be sorry. Every single song on both discs are amazing, no need to skip. Both discs are completely different Big Boi's disc "Speakerboxxx" is just so perfectly cool and straight up playarific and Andre's album is like nothing you have ever heard (I 100% guarantee that). These albums sound like they fell off a comet from outer space, because they can't possibly be from this planet. By the end of these albums you will be saying stank you smelly much OutKast, stank you smelly much (once you listen to these albums you will understand what I just wrote and I guarantee that you will at least think that).

P.S. It took me four years to get to writing this review. But I wanted to make sure I did these albums justice and listened enough to know every nook and cranny(although every time I listen I hear something new) and I also make sure I described it as best as I could. Although I could describe it a million times better, I needed to get this up already.

3 stars for tlb ;; 5 for speakerboxxx.......2006-12-21

the love below was okay, but not really my style. if you like more r&b, or slow rap songs, you will probably prefer this cd. i prefer big bois cd much more. i like "harder" rap and all the guest stars. this is still a great collection of songs, and deserved all the nominations it received.

Rap isn't what it used to be, but these two will continue to carry it a long way.......2006-10-23

This double album (one disc by each member), is simply one of the greatest artistic achievements rap has ever seen. You just can't sit down anymore and come up with something like "Happy Valentine's Day" or "She's Alive" in 5 minutes. It takes a brilliant mind to create rap music that is as deeply enchanting as this.

The best Outkast's Album.......2006-08-28

I have been an Outkast fan for almost 10 years. I have got every album they released since Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (which was hard to find in France), released in 1993-1994 in France.
According to me, this double album is their best, even better than Atliens, their second album, which was my favourite before I hear Speakerboxxx / The Love Below.
The strength of this double album is the diversity in music style : hip hop, rnb, jazzy, soul... The overall quality of "The Love Below" sounds higher to me, but Speakerboxxx features some masterpieces like "The Way You Move", "The Rooster", "Flip Flop Rock"...

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A few good songs and the rest is no good.
Great Album - But Come On
Andre 3000's The Love Below is BRILLIANT
best outkast album
Genius

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Tracks:

The Love Below (Intro)
Love Hater
God (Interlude)
Happy Valentine's Day
Spread
Where Are My Panties?
Prototype
She Lives in My Lap
Hey Ya!
Roses
Good Day, Good Sir
Behold a Lady
Pink & Blue
Love in War
She's Alive
Dracula's Wedding
Take Off Your Cool (with Norah Jones)
Vibrate
A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete)
[Untitled Hidden Track]

Tracks:

Intro
Ghetto Musick
Unhappy
Bowtie
The Way You Move
The Rooster
Bust (with Killer Mike)
War
Church
Bamboo (Interlude)
Tomb of the Boom (with Ludacris)
E-Mac (Interlude)
Knowing
Flip Flop Rock (with Killer Mike)
Interlude
Reset
D-Boi (Interlude)
Last Call (with Slimm Calhoun)
Bowtie (Postlude)

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Customer Reviews:

A few good songs and the rest is no good........2007-01-05

In this album, we have two sides of things. Speakerboxx and the Love Below. Speakerboxx is mostly rap based. Pure hardcore rap. The Love Below is hiphop with some more soul. The Love Below is better. All in all, you are only buying this for 2-4 songs, so you might as well download them.

Great Album - But Come On.......2005-06-29

Yeah this is a great album with songs ranging from jazz to rap and evrything in between but I just want to know - Does anybody remember Outkast? It did not use to be about "TRYING TO BE ORIGINAL" they used to be great MC's. This album is definitely a fall-out in those regards but non-the-less this is a wonderful album and you would not expect anything less from Outkast. Pick this up but if your a fan than you know my pain.

Andre 3000's The Love Below is BRILLIANT.......2005-01-06

I love their latest double CD Album:-Although Big Boi's Speakerboxxx side has some brilliant tracks on them, Andre 3000's The Love Below is HIGHLY ADDICTIVE. I cannot stop playing these tracks on The Love Below CD.

( In order of preference )

1) Hey Ya.......(The best song this millennium..PERIOD)

2) Spead ...... (The hook and pull on this song is out of this world. Its like you're speeding home in your car during the night)

3) Happy Valentines day .....(Designed for ALL parties and clubs)

4) Love Hater ....... (This song is full of STYLE)

5) Love in War ...... (Well put together)

6) Dracula's Wedding ......(Exciting cartoon superhero style type of tune)

best outkast album.......2004-11-30

great cd
best outkast album.

every song on both cd's are great.
i like speakerboxx a little better b/c ts rap but there both good(speakerboxx and the love below)

buy this if u dont have it
it dosent matter if u get clean or explicit version

Genius.......2004-10-12

This is such a superb album it is kind of hard to describe. I listined to this album because of all the hype surrounding it. By nature i am not a rap fan, and don't usually even like rap, but this album really captured me like nothing else has in awhile. Listen to the Love Below, and that alone makes it an incredible album. THe love Below is... very creative, to the point of exhaustive genius, and is structured in a way that is like absolutely nothing else. It is very eclectic, with styles ranging from funk to rock, to soul, to almost beat poetry. It enthrolles you with a magnet affect. It is also very artsy, and unconforming to all the rap crap that is spread over the stations with boring stereo typicalisms. These guys are actually willing to concern themselves with the music, the lyrics, and anything else to make an artistic triumph rather than a number one hit. Any band or artist that is willing to be concerned with THE Album, not the hit, is ok in my book. i really hate commercial songs for the sake of popularity, and thankfully they do none of that.
Now... disc two does stray from what Andre 3000 is trying to accomplish, and doesn't provide the same "loveliness" if you will; the melodies are not as creative, the mood is different, but it is still enjoyable. Overall this is an achievement in music i wish i saw more of. Superb.

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