Intro
Gasoline Dreams with Khujo Goodie
I'm Cool Interlude
So Fresh, So Clean - Radio Mix
Ms. Jackson - Radio Mix
Snappin' & Trappin'
D.F. Interlude
Spaghetti Junction
Kim & Cookie Interlude
I'll Call Before I Come With Eco & Gangsta Boo
B.O.B.
Xplosion
Good Hair Interlude
We Luv Deez Hoez
Humble Mumble with Erykah Badu
Drinkin' Again Interlude
Red Velvet
Cruisin' In The ATL Interlude
Gangsta Sh*t feat. C-Bone & Slimm Calhoun
Toilet Tisha
Slum Beautiful
Pre-Nump Interlude
Stankonia Stanklove
Frogtoon Music Album Info: Stankonia
Published: 04 Apr 2010, 12:45
Stankonia Is The Fourth Studio Album By American Hip Hop Duo OutKast Released October 31 2000 On La Face Records. The Album Debuted At Number 2 On The U.S. Billboard 200 Chart Selling Over 530 000 Copies The First Week. Stankonia Received Universal Acclaim From Most Music Critics Based On An Aggregate Score Of 95/100 From Metacritic. It Received Rave Reviews From Publications Such As USA Today And The Los Angeles Times. It Was Also Voted As The Best Album Of The Year In The Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. In 2003 The Album Was Ranked Number 359 On Rolling Stone Magazine's List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time. Stank A Commonly Used Word On The Album Is Derived From A Southern U.S. Pronunciation Of Stink The Original Meaning Of The Word Funk. George Clinton Applied The Term Stank To The More Carnal Hedonistic Things In Life Including Funk Music. "Stankonia" Is The Name Of A Fictional Land At "the Center Of The Earth Seven Light Years Below Sea Level" Which Is "the Place From Which All 'funky Thangs' Come" According To The Album's Opening Lyrics. The Lyrical Content Is Divided Between Verses From Big Boi And André 3000. The Artists Describe Themselves As "a Player And A Poet" Respectively And This Is Reflected In The Lyrics Big Boi Tends To Deal With Standard Gangsta Fare Such As Guns Hoes And Pimping On Songs Such As "Snappin & Trappin" And "We Luv Deez Hoez" While André 3000 Talks About Other Elements Of "stanking" Using Metaphors About Elephants Ski Slopes And The Four Humours. Part Of The Reason For Stankonia's Acclaim And Popularity Was The Diversity Of Its Musical Influences Which Led To Comparisons To Prince. It Incorporates Many Musical Genres To Create A Unique-Sounding Whole. For Example The Album Opens With Indian Tablas And Harmonium Then Launching Into A Heavy Metal-Style Electric Guitar Riff On "Gasoline Dreams" Before Turning To Slick P-Funk On The Second Song Fourth Track Overall "So Fresh So Clean". The Album Also Incorporates Influences From Gospel "Toilet Tisha" Samba "Humble Mumble" And Drum And Bass "B.O.B." . This Stylistic Diversity Was Tied Together By The Pseudo-Psychedelic Production Emphasizing Trippy Synthesizers Spacey Sound Effects Techno-Tinged Percussion And Weird 70s-Style Psychedelic Funk Updated In A More Contemporary Hip-Hop Context. The Album's Cover Is An Homage To Sly & The Family Stone's There's A Riot Goin' On. Its Limited Edition Artwork Features A Computer-Generated Image Of A Subset Of The Mandelbrot Set A Fractal. Robert Christgau Of The Village Voice Gave It An A Rating And Described Stankonia As "comic And Expansive P-Funk". Allmusic Gave The Album 5 Out Of 5 Stars And Wrote "given The Variety Of Moods It Helps That The Album Is Broken Up By Brief Usually Humorous Interludes Which Serve As A Sort Of Reset Button. It Takes A Few Listens To Pull Everything Together But Given The Immense Scope It's Striking How Few Weak Tracks There Are". Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker Wrote That "Stankonia Reeks Of Artful Ambition Rendered With Impeccable Skill" And Gave The Album An A Rating. Stankonia Places As The 4th Best Ranked Album Of This Century On Metacritic With A Score Of 95 Indicating Universal Acclaim. In 2006 Time Magazine Named Stankonia As One Of The 100 Best Albums Of All Time. In 2009 Pitchfork Media Ranked Stankonia #13 On Its List Of The Top 200 Albums Of The 2000s And Rhapsody Ranked It At #2 On Its "100 Best Albums Of The Decade" List. Rhapsody Also Ranked The Album #6 On Its "Hip-Hop’s Best Albums Of The Decade" List. Entertainment Weekly Put It On Its End-Of-The-Decade "best-Of" List Saying "With Hummable Hits 'Ms. Jackson' And Out-There Experiments 'B.O.B.' The Rap Duo Gave Us All A Visa To The Funky If Fictional Land Of Stankonia In 2000."