Big Boi & Sleepy Brown

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Big Boi and Sleepy Brown. Two legendary recording artists! Big Boi is one half of the legendary rap duo OutKast and a prolific solo-artist. Sleepy Brown is a veteran singer-songwriter and producer. Along with his team production team Organized Noize, he helped produce well over half of OutKast's discography. He's also worked with Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams, and Ludacris. Their latest joint effort is an album: "Big Sleepover." Despite collaborating and representing the ATL for decades it's their first record together. We talk about the Big Sleepover with Sleepy Brown and Big Boi, and about the pleasure they get from working together after all these years. They also get into the history of Atlanta hip-hop, parenting, and so much more.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:14.0	From MaximumFun.org and NPR, it's Bullseye.
0:24.5	First up on the show this week, I am thrilled to welcome two of my all-time favorite recording
0:28.7	artists, Big Boy and Sleepy Brown. You probably already know Big Boy, he's half of the legendary
0:34.8	rap duo Outcast. He's also a brilliant and prolific solo artist. He's been on our show before.
0:41.5	Sleepy Brown doesn't need that much introduction either. He's a veteran singer, songwriter and producer.
0:47.2	With his team-organized noise, he helped produce about half of Outcast's records.
0:51.6	Oh, and besides that, they co-ro and produced what might be one of the most iconic songs of the 90s.
0:59.2	And some may not go chasing waterfalls. Please stick to the rumors and the likes that you used to.
1:10.3	I know that you're gonna have it your way on the thinnest hole, but I take your moment to pass.
1:19.6	Sleepy Brown is also a singer.
1:32.0	That's him on Outcast's monster single, the way you move. He's worked with two Pock and Jay-Z,
1:40.5	Ludacris, even Slian, the family stone and Curtis Mayfield. Sleepy Brown and Big Boy have been
1:47.1	close pretty much their entire adult lives. So it made sense when last year they announced they'd
1:53.2	recorded an album together. The big sleep over dropped in December of last year. I've been
1:58.9	bumping into my car pretty much every day since. Maybe not every day, but real close to it. It is a
2:05.5	great record. Let's kick things off with a track off the album. This one is The Big Sleep is over.
2:11.2	The definition of up and coming. I'm getting a ground running like a daddy never had nothing.
2:16.8	They mark a wave and I'm out the dam of it now. So fool, it's quite a de-over quantity steel and we'll kill any on the field.
2:30.5	Big Boy Sleepy Brown, welcome to Bullseye. I'm so happy to have you on the show.
2:33.4	Yeah, we're so glad you're here. Great to be here.
2:35.6	I went back and read this oral history of the Dungeon family that was in creative loafing,
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