Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia - Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture Edition
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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A special Hit Parade announcement: Like many media organizations at the moment, Slate is getting hit pretty hard by what's going on with the economy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. We want to continue doing our work, providing you with all our great podcasts, news and reporting, and we simply cannot do that without your support. So we're asking you to sign up for Slate Plus, our membership program. It's just $35 for the first year, and it goes a long way to supporting us in this crucial moment.
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On this preview episode: Outkast is inarguably one of the most important acts in hip hop and pop music history, but their impressive chart runs, and the brand of Atlanta hip hop they championed, was far from inevitable. This is the story of Outkast and how they established Atlanta as a major center of hip hop culture in the United States while racking up some of the most unexpected hits in the history of popular music.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening Ad-Free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.1 | Hey there, hit parade listeners. |
| 0:05.1 | What you're about to hear is a preview of our latest episode. |
| 0:10.1 | As we announced recently, Slate, like many media organizations, has been hit hard by the economic |
| 0:16.9 | downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 0:20.7 | We need your help to continue producing this show and all the other work we do at Slate. |
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| 0:49.2 | of hit parade in full. That's slate.com slash hit parade plus. Thanks. And now your episode preview. |
| 1:00.0 | This podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits from coast to coast. |
| 1:18.5 | I'm Chris Malanfi, chart analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song Number One series. |
| 1:26.8 | On today's show, 20 years ago, in the spring of 2000, a pair of rappers from Atlanta, Georgia, |
| 1:36.2 | were in the studio putting the finishing touches on an album that would change the trajectory |
| 1:41.9 | of their career, and arguably their hometown. |
| 1:47.1 | It would turn outcast from leading figures in Southern hip-hop to one of the biggest pop acts in America. |
| 1:59.9 | They would call the album, released in the fall of 2000, Stankonia, and it would change the game, selling more copies than almost any Atlanta rap album that came before it. |
| 2:13.6 | But it was not their first album, as Outcast would take pains to tell their new fans later. |
| 2:21.0 | And it was not a tepid or middle-of-the-road album. Antoine Big Boy Patton and Andre Benjamin, |
| 2:30.5 | aka Andre 3000, made the mainstream come to them, not the other way around. |
| 2:46.3 | Outcast helped change not just the sound, but the breadth of hip-hop, including geographically. |
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