Instead, they turned to Prince, George Clinton and Little Richard, but were careful not to go too deep. He and Big Boi made a point of listening to no hip-hop while recording so as not to fall into any of the cliches they saw developing in the genre. "We're in the age of keeping it real, but we're trying to keep it surreal," Andre 3000 once said of the album's mission. If Outkast wanted to surpass Aquemini with the next release, they knew they would need to reach beyond what hip-hop had attempted before. The duo were coming off a smash success with Aquemini, which had earned a perfect five-mic rating from the Source, the "bible of the genre," Creative Loafing notes. The album hit the shelves at a pivotal moment in Outkast's career. Music still feels the reverberations today. Spread across a tapestry of funk, psychedelic hard rock, gospel and jazz, Outkast's Stankonia proved hip-hop could outline spiritual conundrums just as effectively as it could describe the traps lining the edges of the ghetto. While proving how hook-y and marketable the genre could be, it gave the world a glimpse of how far the borders could expand. More than most other albums in the early '00s, Stankonia helped hip-hop build its foundation in the mainstream, where still it stands unfuckwithable today. It was the album most hip-hop skeptics had to admit they liked. The deep cuts are still some of the most rewarding experimental hip-hop around. Jackson" and " So Fresh, So Clean" are still irresistibly quotable. It was here, careening between Atlanta and Atlantis, Outkast conceived an album that would change hip-hop forever.
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More importantly, Stankonia was a place "where you can open yourself up and be free to express anything," Andre 3000 later said in an interview. They were also in a studio in the Berkeley Park neighborhood of Atlanta, which Outkast had bought and named Stankonia shortly before beginning to record the album that would make the space legendary. They were at "the center of the Earth, seven light-years below sea level," as Andre 3000 says in the opening words of the album - "the place from which all funky things come." When Outkast first introduced audiences to Stankonia 15 years ago, the group made sure listeners knew exactly where they were.
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