Pages tagged “big boi”

Big Boi, Jermaine Dupri and DJ Drama Talk DJ Hero

Atlanta hip hop's finest talk to Paste about Activision's next big video-game release...  read more

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Big Boi Talks Solo Album, Outkast Album, Label Uncertainty

Paste caught up with Big Boi last night at Atlanta's Velvet Room...  read more

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Rock The Bells

Hip-hop tours are notorious for low production values and distorted sound...  read more

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The Roots, Common and Big Boi to headline Rock the Bells 2009

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Annual hip-hop festival Rock the Bells has finalized its 2009 lineup, with Common, Nas & Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, The Roots, Big Boi and House of Pain headlining. Although dates, venues and a few more performers are forthcoming, the cities hosting this year's event include Chicago, Toronto, Washington D.C., Boston, New York, Denver, San Francisco, Miami and Vancouver....  read more

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Sundance 2009: Music Round-Up

Cee-Lo is best known by hipsters these days as the vocal half o Justin Nozuka Justin Nozuka is a name that you will be hearing a lot in the coming months. A Canadian of Japanese and American descent who’s still just 19 years old, he comes across as a bizarre blend of Michael Jackson and Jeff Buckley...in a good way. His set at Tatou was a stunner, and certainly a harbinger of great things to come. Nozuka has a gift of being sensitive without cloying, pleading without whining. His vocals have a beautifully immediate quality; there’s no artifice to be...  read more

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Andre 3000 says solo album due soon

So, technically, OutKast members Andre 3000 and Big Boi have both already made solo albums. The incredibly-successful 2003 Speakerboxx/The Love Below double CD was, if you recall, two separate solo CDs bundled together under the OutKast name. So the fact that Rolling Stone has reported that Andre 3000 will drop his new solo album soon shouldn't be that surprising....  read more

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