white Ts for the wedding

Between all american big releases of this days, you musn't miss Outkast's new project. In an interview with Charlie Braxton for the Breakin-Records website, André 3000 talks about screenwriting, blues music, the Idlewild album of course, snap music and also club culture...

"We at a period right now where kids….girls and dudes in high school do everything for the club. We’re in a club culture where niggas wanna ride to the club looking good in their nice car. They want they rims looking good. And when they get to the club they wanna look fresh with their clothes and when they leave the club they wanna leave with a nice girl and they wanna drink Petrone and smoke and do all kinds of other stuff in the club."

...and the place of Atlanta in the game :

"(...) Ah man it’s funny how we just be talking about one thing that lead me into other song. We got a song on there called “Hollywood Divorce.” And it talks about exactly what you’re saying. I mean you gotta think back twelve years ago the South was laughed at. Now if you go to New York or you go to LA that’s all you hear on the radio. That’s all you hear. I mean it’s either snapping or clapping or trapping. It’s one of them.

Q: But it’s not just the music look at the culture. You see kid’s from New York dressing like us, dancin’ like us, hell they’re even using our slang, they’re ridin on 22s.

Andre: Yeah, it’s crazy. What I’m saying is usually whenever a Black thing started in the hood and it gets so big where Hollywood makes movies about it usually the Black people who made it they flip it and do something else because then it’s not their no more.

On Hollywood Divorce the chorus says it starts off like a small town marriage, Lovely wife, a life and a baby carriage. Now all the stars have care, success of course but it ends up in Hollywood divorce. And that what this is it all started off as some shit we used to do in high school –this southern shit, we didn’t know that it was gonna take off like it did. I mean TI he used to come by the studio. He used to come by Stankonia. He used to be rappin’. This was before he was even on, ya know. And it was all just some neighborhood shit. But now they’re making movies about our city man. Even though it missed the mark a lot, it really didn’t say what Atlanta was, but just for somebody to dish out money to make a movie about our city is good in and of itself. They made movies about New York….Beat Street and Wyldstyle and all of that. Now they making movies about this small place called Atlanta where the highest building was the Peachtree Plaza at one point (...)"

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MP3 : Outkast - Hollywood Divorce