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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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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Cee Lo Green - Goodie Mob's Cee Lo delivered raspy, soulful hooks on "Call of Da Wild" and "Git Up, Git Out" and also kicked a scene-stealing verse on the latter, introducing himself with the line "I don't recall, ever graduating at all." Years later, after more than a decade as a solo artist, Cee Lo's arguably found even more fame than Outkast, both as a former judge on the hit reality show The Voice and a hitmaker with a whopping five Grammys.(Photo: Courtesy Lewis Jacobs/NBC)

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)

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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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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) 

Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds: April 10 - The Grammy-winning R&B hit-maker turns 53. (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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Babyface - Singer-songwriter-producer Babyface, along with partner L.A. Reid, signed Outkast to their LaFace Records imprint and executive-produced the duo's debut. The album definitely fits into the strain of the thoughtful, melodic, lush soul music for which Babyface was already iconic. He and Reid sold their stakes in LaFace in 2000, but Babyface isn't resting on his legendary laurels. He was featured on Lil Wayne's "Comfortable" from 2008's Tha Carter III, recently produced songs for Ashanti and Monica, and just released a duets album in February with Toni Braxton called Love, Marriage & Divorce. (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

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Mr. DJ - David "Mr. DJ" Sheats, Rico Wade's cousin, provided dope cuts throughout the album, helping to ground Outkast's innovative Southern lean in traditional hip hop's sonic foundations. Mr. DJ continued to contribute to the duo's future albums, both on the turntables and behind the boards, where he linked up with Andre and Big Boi to form Earthtone III, the production crew that produced the bulk of Outkast's work after Southernplayalisticadillacmusik. (Photo: Courtesy LaFace Records)

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Mr. DJ - David "Mr. DJ" Sheats, Rico Wade's cousin, provided dope cuts throughout the album, helping to ground Outkast's innovative Southern lean in traditional hip hop's sonic foundations. Mr. DJ continued to contribute to the duo's future albums, both on the turntables and behind the boards, where he linked up with Andre and Big Boi to form Earthtone III, the production crew that produced the bulk of Outkast's work after Southernplayalisticadillacmusik. (Photo: Courtesy LaFace Records)

Rico Wade - Rico Wade was one of the three geniuses behind Organized Noize, who produced the entire album. He's still down with the clique now, and he and Noize-mate Sleepy Brown recently launched a new label, 13 Black Records. Wade is also a cousin and mentor to Atlanta's newest star, Future. (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Rico Wade - Rico Wade was one of the three geniuses behind Organized Noize, who produced the entire album. He's still down with the clique now, and he and Noize-mate Sleepy Brown recently launched a new label, 13 Black Records. Wade is also a cousin and mentor to Atlanta's newest star, Future. (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

Sleepy Brown - Sleepy—who played a key role as singer, songwriter and producer on releases from Outkast and their Dungeon Family affilliates—graced "Poppin' Tags" with his signature falsetto on the hook. Three years later, he released his major-label debut, Mr. Brown, via Big Boi's Purple Ribbon label but it never went anywhere, and neither did Brown's solo career. But Big Boi has kept their working relationship alive, tapping Sleepy for both of his solo albums, incuding the forthcoming Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors. (Photos by Adrian Sidney/PictureGroup)

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Sleepy Brown - Singer and multi-instrumentalist Sleepy Brown co-produced the album as part of Organized Noize and also contributed backup vocals all over the album. In the years to follow, he emerged as a solo artist, an enigmatic falsetto crooner who released two solo albums and rocked hooks for hits by Ludacris ("Saturdays"), Jay-Z ("Poppin' Tags") and, of course, Outkast ("So Fresh So Clean"). In 2013, he dropped his latest EP, ATL = A-Town Legend.(Photo: Adrian Sidney/PictureGroup)

L.A. Reid on The X Factor - He's a former member of '80s band The Deele and ex-president of music companies LaFace, Arista and Island Def Jam. Since he also discovered talents like Usher, Toni Braxton and Ciara, L.A. Reid remains a perfect TV judge to uncover if a singing hopeful has the X Factor.(Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images)

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L.A. Reid - As Babyface's long-time musical and business partner, L.A. Reid co-executive-produced the album. Reid is no empty suit though: He was a member of '80s R&B group The Deele alongside Babyface and produced for Bobby Brown, Paula Abdul and Whitney Houston. After LaFace was sold, Reid served as head of Def Jam from 2004 to 2011. He's currently CEO of Epic, but you're probably more familiar with him as a previous judge on the hit show The X-Factor. (Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images)

Big Boi on the chances of a reunion with André 3000 - "I think it's very much possible because we have L.A. Reid in our corner now, and he was the first to sign Outkast.  L.A. has permission to make it happen now. So I hope it does, and I don't really see why it won't." (Photo credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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Big Boi - OutKast released five more amazing, platinum-plus albums after Southernplayalisticadillacmusik, but 2003's Speakerboxxx/Love Below, which was really just two solo albums packaged together, was a sign that the partnership between Andre 3000 and Big Boi was fraying. The legendary duo dropped the soundtrack to the 2005 film Idlewild, but have been on hiatus ever since. Big Boi, however, returned with a funky-as-ever album, Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty, in 2010, and followed that up with an even better, more experimental effort, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumours, in 2012.(Photo: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Andre 3000: May 27 - The game-changing rapper and half of the duo OutKast turns 38. (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

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Andre 3000 - Since OutKast's unofficial hiatus, Andre 3000 has become one of hip hop's more enigmatic figures. For a while he seemed more focused on his burgeoning acting career (2008's Semi-Pro, 2005's Four Brothers) than music — he's starring in the upcoming Jimi Hendrix biopic, All Is By My Side. But over the past few years, amazing Dre verses have appeared on tracks like T.I.'s "Sorry" and Future's "Benz Friendz (Watchutola)."Marking the 20th anniversay of the release of their debut, Dre has returned from his forced exhile and will be touring with Big Boi at several festival dates throughout the year. The duo kicked off their return this month at Coachella. Dre has also revealed that he'll be releasing a solo album soon but a new OutKast album seems to still be light years away.   (Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images)