Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Double LP by OutKast
Released	September 23, 2003 (US)
Recorded	N/A
Genre	Southern hip hop / Funk / Soul / R&B / Pop music
Length	The Love Below: 78 mins/30 secs Speakerboxxx: 56 mins/26 secs
Label	La Face/Arista
Producer	OutKast
Professional reviews
AMG (4.5/5) link Rolling Stone (3/5) link Pitchfork Media (8/10) link
OutKast Chronology
Big Boi And Dre Present...OutKast (2001)	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003)	10 the Hard Way (2005)

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the name of the 2003 double album by the two members of the hip hop group OutKast, each disc a solo project (the concept of collecting solo recordings under a band name was first used by Pink Floyd on one half of their 1969 album Ummagumma). Speakerboxxx/The Love Below won the 2003 Grammy for Album of the Year. Speakerboxxx has Big Boi performing tracks more representative of the older OutKast style, while The Love Below, the solo project of Andre 3000, is performed in a more funk-based style which has earned him some comparisons to Prince. copyrighted music album This is an album cover. ... 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... Big Boi (left) and André 3000 (right) possess musical styles that are often as different as their fashion senses. ... 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The album was released on September 23, 2003 on Arista Records, on compact disc, vinyl LP, and audio cassette. In December 2004, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was certified diamond, with ten million units (or five million sets--double albums count as two units) shipped. MC Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em and The Notorious B.I.G.'s Life After Death are the only other hip-hop albums ever certified diamond. The album also achieved critical success; it was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arista Records was founded in 1975 by Clive Davis, and named after his secondary school honor society. ... Interference colors. ... 33⅓ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. ... For the meaning of cassette in genetics, see cassette (genetics). ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of sales albums and singles have made. ... Please Hammer Dont Hurt em (1990) MC Hammer (later Hammer), real name Stanley Kirk Burrell, (born March 30, 1962) was an early mainstream rapper, known for his Hammer pants and catchy hooks on songs like U Cant Touch This. // Early life MC Hammer was born in Oakland, California. ... Please Hammer Dont Hurt Em (1990) Please Hammer Dont Hurt Em is the second album by MC Hammer in 1990, released by Capitol. ... The Notorious B.I.G. Christopher Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls (after a stylish gangster in 1975s Lets Do it Again) and Frank White (from King of New York), but best known as The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of... Life After Death is the final album by East Coast rapper Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls), released on March 25, 1997 (see 1997 in music). ... The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ... The Pazz & Jop critics poll is a highly influential poll of music critics run by The Village Voice newspaper. ...

Chart success

The album reached the top of the Billboard 200 in 2003 and was a best-selling album around the world. "Hey Ya!" went to number one the Billboard Hot 100 in Canada and Australia and has charted in 28 countries around the world. "The Way You Move" also topped the US charts in 2004 and has charted in 17 countries around the world. "The Way You Move" knocked "Hey Ya" off the top of the charts in the US, the first time a band has had one song replace another of its songs since 40 years ago, when The Beatles did it in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania. The third single released from the album was "Roses". The fourth and fifth singles released were "Prototype" and "GhettoMusick" respectively. In Australia, "Hey Ya!" was voted #2 on the 2003 Triple J Hottest 100, the biggest alternative music poll of its type in the country. The Billboard 200 is a listing of the 200 highest selling music albums in the United States, published weekly in Billboard magazine. ... Hey Ya! is a song released by OutKast in 2003 from their Grammy award winning double-album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the main U.S. singles popularity chart used by Billboard magazine. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has a related story: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Beatles (L-R, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon), in 1964, performing on The Ed Sullivan Show promoting their first U.S. hit song, I Want To Hold Your Hand, and ushering in the British Invasion of American popular music. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Triple J Hottest 100 is an annual top 100 list, based on the votes of Australian youth radio station Triple J listeners, in order to determine their favourite song of the year. ...

Featured guests on Speakerboxxx include Sleepy Brown, Jazze Pha, Jay-Z, Killer Mike, Goodie Mob, and Ludacris. Guests on The Love Below include Rosario Dawson, Norah Jones, Kelis, and Farnsworth Bentley. Patrick Sleepy Brown is an African-American R&B/soul music singer, songwriter, and record producer. ... Jazze Pha (born Phalon Alexander) is a hip hop producer and singer born in Memphis, Tennessee. ... Jay-Z (aka the Jigga, HOV and Hova, born Shawn Carter on December 4, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American rapper/hip hop artist and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. ... Killer Mike Killer Mike (born Michael Render) is an African-American rapper, signed to Columbia Records through OutKasts Aquemini Records imprint. ... Goodie Mob is one of the premiere hip hop acts to come out of the Dirty South. ... Christopher Bridges (born September 11, 1977 in Champaign, Illinois), once known as Chris Lova Lova and best known as Ludacris, is an African-American rapper and actor. ... Rosario Dawson Rosario Dawson Rosario Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress of Irish, Puerto-Rican, and Black ancestry. ... Norah Jones Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979; she changed her name officially to Norah Jones at age 16) is an American multi-Grammy Award winning pianist and singer-songwriter whose career was launched with her successful 2002 debut album Come Away With Me, a... Kelis (born Kelis Rogers, August 21, 1980) is an American singer and songwriter. ... Farnsworth Bentley is the byname of Derek Watkins. ...

Track listings

Speakerboxxx

1. "Intro"
2. "GhettoMusick"
3. "Unhappy"
4. "Bowtie"
5. "The Way You Move"
6. "The Rooster"
7. "Bust"
8. "War"
9. "Church"
10. "Bamboo" (interlude)
11. "Tomb of the Boom"
12. "E-Mac" (interlude)
13. "Knowing"
14. "Flip Flop Rock"
15. "Interlude"
16. "Reset"
17. "D-boi" (interlude)
18. "Last Call"
19. "Bowtie" (postlude)

The Love Below

1. "Intro"
2. "Love Hater"
3. "God" (interlude)
4. "Happy Valentines Day"
5. "Spread"
6. "Where Are My Panties?"
7. "Prototype"
8. "She Lives in My Lap"
9. "Hey Ya"
10. "Roses"
11. "Good Day Good Sir" (interlude)
12. "Behold a Lady"
13. "Pink & Blue"
14. "Love in War"
15. "She's Alive"
16. "Dracula's Wedding"
17. "The Letter" (does not appear on the clean version of the album)
18. "My Favorite Things"
19. "Take Off Your Cool"
20. "Vibrate"
21. "A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete)"

External Links

• Review listing at Metacritic