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This highly anticipated and critically accled fourth album from Outkast expands on the inventive style that has helped them achieve multi-platinum status. Stankonia mixes southern rap, funk, and even pop with intricate lyrics. Includes: - Intro - oline Dreams - featuring Khujo Goodie from Goodie Mob - I'm Cool (Interlude) - So Fresh, So Clean - Ms. Jackson - Snappin' & Trappin' - featuring Killer Mike & J-Sweet - D.F. (Interlude) - Spaghetti Junction - Kim & Cookie (Interlude) - I'll Call Before I Come - featuring Gangsta Boo & Eco - B.O.B. - Xplosion - featuring B-Real - Good Hair (Interlude) - We Luv Deez Hoez - featuring Back & Big Gipp from Goodie Mob - Humble Mumble - featuring Erykah Badu - Drinkin' Again (Interlude) - ? - Red Velvet - Cruisin' In The ATL (Interlude) - Gangsta S*** - featuring Slimm Calhoun, C- & T-Mo Goodie from Goodie Mob - Toilet Tisha - Slum Beautiful - featuring Cee-Lo from Goodie Mob - Pre-Nump (Interlude) - Stankonia (Stanklove) - featuring Big Rube & y Brown - Stanklove .com ---- Big Boi and Andre 3000 make a monumental mothership connection on their utterly stupefying fourth album. At a time when the hip-hop "album" seems to be sadly declining in significance, Atlanta's finest deliver a classic package of space-case imagery, curbside poetry, and delicious experimental funk. While the boys still celebrate their big pimpin' lifestyles, "oline Dreams" and the breathtaking "Humble Mumble" overflow with striking images of dashed American dreams and urban frustration. Stankonia's most beautiful moments come in the name of love, whether it's a celebration of the current ("Stanklove") or a lamentation of the past ("Ms. Jackson"). The love movement is manifested on the album's revolutionary production, combining the oozing, licks of P-Funk ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/43023/%24%7B0%7D ), the fearless, sexual audacity of Prince ( /exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/51163/%24%7B0%7D ), some down-home Southern crunk, and even a little drum & bass ("B.O.B."). While Stankonia certainly isn't an "easy" album, its ambition and vision easily rank it among hip-hop's greatest in some time. --Hua Hsu