Stankonia is a hip-hop album by OutKast, released by La Face Records (a subcorporation of Arista Records, BMG) on October 31, 2000. The album reached number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart , selling over 530,000 copies the first week of its release. It was critically well-received, receiving high marks from publications such as Rolling Stone and The Onion. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll and it was ranked 23 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005". In 2003, the album was ranked number 359 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Image File history File links Stankonia-both-covers. ... A studio album is a collection of previously unreleased, studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... OutKast is a Grammy award winning American hip hop duo based out of East Point, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. ... is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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In 2006, Time named Stankonia one of the 100 best albums of all time.[1] Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. ...

"Stank", a commonly used word on the album, is derived from a southern U.S. pronunciation of "stink", the original meaning of the word "funk". George Clinton applied the term "stank" to the more carnal, hedonistic things in life, including funk music. "Stankonia" is the name of a fictional land at "the centre of the earth, seven light years below sea level", which is "the place from which all funky thangs come" according to the album's opening lyrics. Odor receptors on the antennae of a Luna moth An odor is the object of perception of the sense of olfaction. ... For other uses, including related musical genres, see Funk (disambiguation). ... George Clinton (born July 22, 1940) is an American musician and the principal architect of P-Funk. ... This article does not cite any sources. ... For other uses, including related musical genres, see Funk (disambiguation). ... A light-year or lightyear (symbol: ly) is a unit of measurement of length, specifically the distance light travels in vacuum in one year. ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ...

The album was arranged and produced in collaboration with members of OutKast's "Dungeon Family" crew who previously based in Rico Wade's "Dungeon Studio": Organized Noize and the Goodie Mob. Organized Noize is a successful Atlanta-based American record production company made up of Rico Wade, Ray Murray, and Patrick Sleepy Brown. ... Goodie Mob, based in Atlanta, Georgia, is widely considered one of the founding hip hop acts of the Dirty South movement. ...

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Stankonia's style

Part of the reason for Stankonia's acclaim and popularity was the diversity of its musical influences, which led to comparisons to Prince. It incorporates many musical genres to create a unique-sounding whole. For example, the album opens with Indian tablas and harmonium, then launching into a heavy metal-style electric guitar riff on "Gasoline Dreams" before turning to slick P-funk on the second song (fourth track overall) "So Fresh, So Clean". The album also incorporates influences from gospel, ("Toilet Tisha"), samba ("Humble Mumble") and drum and bass ("B.O.B."). This stylistic diversity was tied together by the pseudo-psychedelic samples, emphasizing trippy synthesizers, spacey sound effects, techno-tinged percussion, and weird 70s-style psychedelic funk, updated in a more contemporary hip-hop context, such as influences by Sly & the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On - most evident on the title track, and from which the album cover was borrowed. Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... “Heavy metal” redirects here. ... An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into electrical current, which is then amplified. ... Riff is also an alternate spelling of Rif, a region of Morocco. ... P-Funk is an abbreviated, compound name for two bands, Parliament and Funkadelic. ... Gospel music is a musical genre characterized by dominant vocals (often with strong use of harmony) referencing lyrics of a religious nature, particularly Christian. ... For other uses, see Samba (disambiguation). ... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb, dnb, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... Sly & the Family Stone was an American rock band from San Francisco, California. ... Theres a Riot Goin On is the influential 1971 album by the soul/rock/funk band Sly & the Family Stone. ...

The lyrical content is divided between Big Boi's verses and André 3000's. The artists describe themselves as a "player and a poet" respectively, and this is reflected in the lyrics; Big Boi tending to deal with more standard gangsta fare (guns, hoes, pimping etc. on songs such as "Snappin & Trappin" and "We Luv Deez Hoez") while André 3000 prefers to talk about other elements of "Stanking" using metaphors about elephants, ski slopes and the four humours. Big Boi (born Antwan André Patton on February 1, 1975 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American hip hop artist and producer; one half of the alternative hip-hop duo OutKast. ... “Ice cold” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Gangster (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that Last Call Poker be merged into this article or section. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about metaphor in literature and rhetoric. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Earthtone III, a production team consisting of OutKast and David "Mr. DJ" Sheats, except for "So Fresh, So Clean", "Spaghetti Junction", and "We Luv Deez Hoez", which are produced by Organized Noize.

1. "Intro"
2. "Gasoline Dreams" (featuring Khujo Goodie from Goodie Mob)
3. "I'm Cool" (Interlude)
4. "So Fresh, So Clean"
   • Samples "Before the Night is Over" by Joe Simon
5. "Ms. Jackson"
   • Samples "Strawberry Letter #23" by The Brothers Johnson
6. "Snappin' & Trappin'" (featuring Killer Mike & J-Sweet)
7. "D.F." (Interlude)
8. "Spaghetti Junction"
9. "Kim & Cookie" (Interlude)
10. "I'll Call Before I Come" (featuring Gangsta Boo & Eco)
11. "B.O.B."
12. "Xplosion" (featuring B-Real)
13. "Good Hair" (Interlude)
14. "We Luv Deez Hoez" (featuring BackBone & Big Gipp of Goodie Mob)
    • Samples "Worldwide" by Allen Toussaint
15. "Humble Mumble" (featuring Erykah Badu)
16. "Drinkin' Again (Interlude)"
17. "?"
18. "Red Velvet"
19. "Cruisin' in the ATL" (Interlude)
20. "Gangsta Shit" (featuring Slimm Calhoun, C-Bone & T-Mo from Goodie Mob) (Produced by Carl Mo for Earthtone III)
21. "Toilet Tisha"
22. "Slum Beautiful" (featuring Cee-Lo from Goodie Mob)
23. "Pre-Nump (Interlude)"
24. "Stankonia (Stanklove)" (featuring Big Rube & Sleepy Brown)

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Album singles

Single cover	Single information
	"B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)" Released: September 19, 2000 B-side: Unknown
	"Ms. Jackson" Released: January 2, 2001 B-side: "Sole Sunday"
	"So Fresh, So Clean" Released: March 13, 2001 B-side: "Gangsta Shit"

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Album chart positions

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Singles chart positions

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Personnel

OutKast:

• Big Boi (Antwan Patton) - vocals, production
• André 3000 (Andre Benjamin) - vocals, synthesisers, production
• Mr. DJ (David Sheats) - production

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• Sleepy Brown
• Khujo Goodie
• Killer Mike
• J-Sweet
• Gangsta Boo
• Eco
• B-Real (of Cypress Hill)
• Erykah Badu
• Backbone
• Big Gipp
• Slimm Calhoun
• C-Bone
• T-Mo Goodie
• Cee-Lo Goodie
• Big Rube
• Joi

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• Donnie Mathis - guitar
• David "Whild" Brown - guitar
• Jason Freeman - horns
• Jerry Freeman - horns
• Sleepy Brown - piano, synthesised bass
• Marvin "Chanz" Parkman - piano, keyboards
• Earthtone III & Organized Noize - keyboards
• Preston Crump - bass guitar, synthesized bass
• Aaron Mills - bass guitar
• Robert Grister - bass guitar
• Dookie Blossumgame - bass guitar
• Victor Alexander - drums

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• Rosalin Heard - backing vocals
• Myrna "Screechy Peach" Crenshaw - backing vocals
• Cutmaster Swift - cuts

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Miscellanea

• The limited edition alternate album cover contains a computer-generated image of a subset of the Mandelbrot set, a fractal.

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External links

• Everything-Outkast