Big Boi

Trivia

• In addition to his work on much OutKast and Dungeon Family-related material, Patton has also been featured on other artists’ tracks without André 3000.
• His most notable guest appearances were on the 1999 Missy Elliott hit, “All N My Grill”, the Youngbloodz’ “85 South”, and Trick Daddy’s 2001 single “In Da Wind”.
• After four increasingly successful albums as a duo, Benjamin decided to make a solo album as a side project.
• Patton also produced a solo effort, and the two albums were packaged together as Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in 2003.
• Speakerboxxx anchored the release with the original OutKast style, and was the half to receive the most recognition from the hip-hop audience. One song from each album was released in September 2003 as a single.
• Patton’s choice was the single “The Way You Move”, featuring Sleepy Brown. It was originally supported by urban radio, but then crossed over to pop charts and became almost as big a pop hit as Benjamin’s “Hey Ya!”.
• “The Way You Move” supplanted “Hey Ya!” as the #1 song on the US pop charts, one of the few times in music history a group has replaced itself at the top of the charts.
• The second single from Big Boi’s side of the album was “Ghetto Musick”, which featured both members of OutKast and a sample from Patti LaBelle’s “Love, Need & Want You”.
• Big Boi recently announced a solo album in the works, which may be finished in 2007.
• Purportedly similar in sound to Speakerboxxx, it will feature production from André and longtime Dungeon Family production team Organized Noize.

Quotes

• “This is a Big Boi thang, not an OutKast thang. I'm doing films, but music is my first love.”
• “It's cool to have somebody you know in a power position that can make things happen for you in a timely fashion, ... He can push the button real fast. That's what I've been waiting for.”
• “I'm going to try to bring the whole family back together like Voltron,”
• “Rest in peace. We love you.”
• “[Everyone's] been saying, 'Does it exist? Does it not exist?' Yeah, it exists, ... It's done. Universal [Pictures] just picked it up. I saw the first two rough cuts of it. It's going major. It's crazy.”
• “It's all about easy living down here, ... Now, that I've been around in the world, there's a lot of things I could do in the entertainment scene down here.”
• “We never try and reinvent the past. We try to look forward to what's going on, ... We don't have a set plan -- you might have ideas, or a different set pieces you might use to put inside your puzzle -- but it's like you always have to look forward to what's beyond from where you just came from.”
• “[He also confirmed that the Idlewild soundtrack will be out in December, and will for all intents and purposes be the next Outkast album. The first single is] Idlewild Blues, ... crazy... It used to be a Rock track [ Andre 3000 ] flipped the track to make it more Dirty South.”
• “I called Jermaine [Dupri, artist/producer and head of black music at Virgin], and it was on.”
• “It took me weeks to finish my part on the song. The track has been around for a minute. It used to be, like, a rock track — Dre flipped the track to make it more Dirty South.”