Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Big Boi Speaks on Sir Lucious Leftfoot: Son of Chico Dusty Album



Last night the homie Big Boi invited me over to Stankonia Studios to let me hear Sir Lucious Leftfoot: Son of Chico Dusty in its entirety. And I must say...the shit is fie. Twelve straight tracks of nothing but that funk. I didn't hear a song that was skipworthy. Dude really put his Leftfoot off in this album. Hell, with it being 2 years and 9 months in the making, we can't expect nothing but that fie at this point. But yeah, after the listen we chopped it up for bit and I recorded some of our conversation. He spills a couple good beans (confirmed he will be at the Goodie Mob reunion show) and bad beans (he's not signed to Def Jam?) in the video, so watch the whole thing.

Their had been a argument on Twitter recently about ATLiens ranking in the Outkast discography. Its my personal favorite but some of my peers disagreed about it being a classic. Well, Big himself said its his favorite and the favorite of most people that he comes across. That said, Sir Lucious Leftfoot reminds me of ATLiens in that while every song sounds different, it also sounds the same. Meaning that its a very cohesive body of work. Cohesive in that every person that was brought in to contribute, from the producers to the featured artists, all stayed on the same page and kept it sounding like a Big Boi album. I jotted a couple notes of what I heard in the BlackBerry, peep them after the jump...

yeah, the notes are on some stream of consciousness shit, but you should be able to follow.

Mr dj did "daddy fat sax"
"Follow us" is fie
A opera sounding song-"General Patton" fie
"Shutterbug"--fie, got a bay area feel to it...scott storch
"Turns me on" by ONP
"Tabourine" still fie has TI on it
"Terrified" has BoB on the hook
Debra killings played bass on the whole album
Erick Sermon prod. "lookin 4 ya" shit is fie...its the song with Dre verse on it and both of them will have 2 verses each, big finishing his last verse tonight.
Lil Jon and Big Boi did "waiting for this day to come " Has jamie foxx on the hook...he said he took it back to the edward j bedroom boom days with this one
George Clinton and Too Short are on "for your sorrows"--the way Big segued into $hort part is pretty dope.
"We go thru this everyday" is pretty cool too
Damn "shineblockers" don't sound shit like what was on that zach wolfe video...thats actually the "wasted" beat now to think of it. "shineblockers" sampled harold melvin and the bluenotes, shit is fie! Gucci and Project Pat on it

6 comments:

Enigma Sept said...

First, ATLiens is my favorite 'Kast album. I think Aquemini was their best produced album, but my fave is ATLiens.


Second, so where is the label home?
I didnt hear him say...

Justin said...

Really looking forward to this album. You can find some footage of Big Boi & Neil from Vonnegutt performing part of "Follow Us" here: http://www.youtube.com/user/VonneguttMusic

As for favorite OutKast album, its close between "ATLiens" and "Aquemini", but I think "ATLiens" might have the edge. "2 Dope Boyz" and "Wheelz of Steel" were in constant rotation.

weLL Damn! said...

can't wait 4 dis. but ima hav 2 say Aquemini my fav Kast album

404 said...

Co sign Aquemini.....comin 4 the hardest Gemini ever born into this realm......


Ya hear me???

That Liberation & Da Art of Storytellin still goes in on they walkin dead asses.

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