Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik : Where Are They Now?

Today marks the 19th anniversary of OutKast's 1994 opus.

Outkast, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik - Outkast’s debut, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, was more like a grandiloquent announcement of the arrival of the South. The artistically creative album, released on April 26, was produced by Organized Noize. It featured a newly packaged sound blending thumping bass, live instruments and the imaginative storytelling of the Atlanta-based duo. André 3000 and Big Boi laid the foundation for the region's crossover respect with their uniqueness, a dose of humor, poetic plays on words and the perfect balance of energy, which showcased the duo's polar opposite personalities. Boasting two chart-topping singles, "Players Ball" and "Git Up Git Out," Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik will forever go down in history for putting ATL on the map in the midst of the East and West Coast ...
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Goodie Mob - But Cee Lo didn't come alone on his contributions to Southernplayalistic — he was one fourth of Goodie M.O.b, who delivered their own influential Organized Noize-produced debut, Soul Food, a year after debuting here. Cee Lo bounced from the group around 2000 and remaining members Big Gipp, Khujo and T-Mo released 2004's One Monkey Don't Stop No Show, as a trio. Goodie reunited with Cee Lo in 2009 and released their fifth album, Age Against The Machine, in 2013.  (Photo: Catherine McGann/Getty Images)Ray Murray - As one third of the Organized Noize production crew, Ray Murray, along with Rico Wade and Sleepy Brown, was partly responsible for the album's innovative production, which mixed live instruments, old-school drum machines and '70s funk to bring a new sound to Southern hip hop. Murray is still an integral part of Organized, who are as active as ever, working on Big Boi's 2010 Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, the Nappy Roots's 2011 Nappy Dot Org and Future's 2012 major-label debut, Pluto.  (Photo: Brad Barket/PictureGroup) 

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Southernplayalisticadillacmusik: Where Are They Now? - Today, April 26, 2014, marks the 20th anniversary of one of Southern hip hop's magna cartas: OutKast's 1994 debut, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. With acrobatic rhymes from Andre 3000 and Big Boi and Southern-fried production from Organized Noize, the LP was the first in a string of acclaimed, platinum-selling classic albums from OutKast, and helped revive and redefine Dirty South rap. Twenty years after Southerplayalisticadillacmusik changed the game, BET.com checks in with the amazing lineup of rappers, singers and producers who put the album together. —Alex Gale(Photo: Courtesy Arista Records)

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