OutKast "Stankonia" [2000]

Greasy as a cookout in an Atlanta project and loose as the stool 12 hours after the food's all eaten, OutKast named "Stankonia" correctly: this CD has wafting stink trails emanating from it ("Toilet Tisha"? give me a fucking break). Figures something from the sub-genre known as Dirty South would have a foul odor. The rap tracks here consist of demo-quality beats, scratches and patches fronted by incessantly dueling Siamese twins Big Boi and Andre 3000 -- the first who missed his calling as a back-country auctioneer and the second who's far too humanly fallible to get away with referring to himself as some sort of futuristic robot. The subject matter is typical for the most part: opulent overspending on shiny objects, fucking anonymous babes with big booties, etc. (some female perspective, too, but nothing that raises the bar of classiness). That they came up with "Bombs Over Baghdad" more than 2 years before "Shock and Awe" occurred doesn't mean they were privy to national security secrets as much as it does they were equally as ignorantly disrespectful of other cultures as George W. Bush would soon prove to be.  Careful with this "Stankonia" -- it's both horribly vulgar and really hard to wash off.