Hit Parade: Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture Edition Part 1

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Talk about ’90s rap, and most music fans will throw around the word “gangsta” and talk about the East Coast–West Coast feud that tragically brought down Biggie and Tupac. But one rap group, OutKast, quite literally rose above the fray: At the 1995 Source Awards, while East and West were bickering with each other, OutKast’s André Benjamin took the mic and told the rap faithful that hip-hop’s future was in the South. For the next quarter century, he was proved indisputably correct. OutKast brought about this sea change by conceiving of hip-hop as everything music: funk, soul, pop, club, even country and indie all found their way into André and Big Boi’s music. By the time of their final studio album, they had pulled away almost fully from pure rap—and were rewarded with their biggest hits ever, a No. 1 smash each for Big Boi and André. Including that immortal jam that taught you, the fellas and the ladies—including all Beyoncés and Lucy Lius—what’s cooler than being cool. Podcast production by Benjamin Frisch and Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, Hit Parade listeners!
0:03.0	This episode was originally released in May 2020 exclusively for Slate Plus listeners.
0:10.3	As of August 2023, it's now available for non-subscribers.
0:15.8	What you're about to hear is part 1 of this episode.
0:19.7	Part 2 will arrive in your podcast feed at the end of the month.
0:23.4	When you like to hear every episode all at once, the day it drops, sign up for Slate Plus.
0:30.2	It supports not only this show, but all of Slate's acclaimed journalism and podcasts.
0:36.2	Just go to slate.com slash Hit Parade Plus.
0:39.9	You'll get to hear every Hit Parade episode in full the day it arrives.
0:44.6	Plus Hit Parade, The Bridge, are bonus episodes.
0:48.5	With guest interviews, deeper dives on our episode topics, and pop-chark trivia.
0:54.0	Once again, to join that's Slate.com slash Hit Parade Plus.
0:59.2	Thanks, and now please enjoy part 1 of this Hit Parade episode.
1:11.1	Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of pop-chark history from Slate magazine about the hits
1:17.2	from coast to coast.
1:18.9	I'm Chris Malanfi, Chart Analyst, Pop Critic, and writer of Slate's Why Is This Song No. 1 series.
1:25.7	On today's show, 20 years ago, in the spring of 2000, a pair of wrappers from Atlanta,
1:36.1	Georgia, were in the studio putting the finishing touches on an album that would change the
1:41.8	trajectory of their career, and arguably their hometown.
1:47.8	It would turn outcast from leading figures in Southern hip-hop to one of the biggest
1:53.5	pop acts in America.
2:01.1	They would call the album, released in the fall of 2000, Stankonia, and it would change
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