After promising various news outlets that 2009 would see a new album, flashy hit makers OutKast are now staking their claim on 2010’s radio waves. First to arrive will be the hotly anticipated Big Boi album, Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty; next up will be the André 3000 LP, and then – assuming the cosmos are aligned – the duo will finally release a new OutKast album.
"There's been a lot of stops and starts with this project," Big Boi told Billboard, about his album featuring Raekwon, Mary J. Blige, George Clinton, Gucci Mane, Lil Jon, T.I. and Jamie Foxx. "I've just been trying to make sure we've got the right avenues and the right brains and mindsets together to get the marketing and promoting behind it. When you work on something for, like, two years and 11 months, it's like your baby."
Meanwhile, the OutKast album – which follows up 2006’s lukewarm Idlewild – apparently depends on fan reception. “When the solo albums come out, depending on how the fans support them, then we're gonna give them the Outkast album,” André 3000 confessed to Billboard.
Veiled threat or rare industry honesty? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. Listen to Big Boi’s excellent new single “Shine Blockas” here.
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