![]() Aquemini peaked at number two on both the Billboard 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop charts.įour of the album’s tracks had already or would later become singles, although some were limited (promotional) releases and not available commercially. The record also received rave reviews from music critics, who praised the album’s musicality and unique lyrical themes. It was ranked at number 500 in Rolling Stone ‘s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. My Thoughts: So, first off the only exposure to OutKast I had before now was their later hits “Hey Ya” and “Miss Jackson”, and “I Like the Way You Move” (featuring Sleepy Brown). ![]() Beyond that, I’ve not been all that familiar with their music, and I’d never listened to an album of theirs in entirety. ![]() Before now, I’d never heard anything off of 1998’s Aquemini. I’ve never explored a lot of the hip-hop and rap genre until recently. ![]() Blame it on my New Wave/Goth formative years, or my Lilith/Grunge/Grrrl twenties in the nineties which led into the Libertine-Indies and Alt-Country 2000s, which all possibly kept me from making my way to hip-hop and rap beyond what was “mainstream”.īut, I have really cool kids with exceptional and all over the genre map music taste, something I’m very proud of, and grateful for, and they have brought a lot more music variety into my already music-varied life. My younger daughter introduced me to a lot of the hip-hop and rap genre this past year.
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