André 3000
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Big Boi
Hip-Hop Bio:
Antwan André Patton (born February 1, 1975), better known by his stage name Big Boi, is a rapper, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is best known for being a member of the southern hip hop duo Outkast alongside André 3000. Big Boi's solo debut album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty was released in July 2010 to critical acclaim. He released his second studio album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors in 2012. Boomiverse, his third studio album, was released in June 2017.
Early Life
Patton was born and spent the first half of his childhood in Savannah, Georgia, attending Herschel V. Jenkins High School, before moving to Atlanta with his aunt Renee. He decided to pursue his interest in music at Tri-Cities High School, a visual and performing arts magnet school.
Patton credited his grandmother with getting him interested in music by sending him and his siblings to the store to buy 45 records. He further credited his uncle with introducing him to a wider variety of music, specifically Kate Bush, who he has described as his favor
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Big Boi
Atlanta indisputably set the pace for modern hip-hop. However, Big Boi set the pace for Atlanta, and by proxy, the culture at large. If the genre of hip-hop ever gets its own "Rap Mount Rushmore," a legacy as the region's foremost wordsmith, funkiest gentleman, and resident ATLien certainly guarantees a place for the rapper, songwriter, record producer, actor, and philanthropist born Antwan André Patton. You can often find him in your favorite rapper's "Top Five" and with good reason. Over two decades since he first crash landed, it's nearly impossible to escape his influence. Of course, he made history as the preeminent spitter of the Dungeon Family and one-half of OutKast. The legendary duo sold 25 million albums and garnered seven GRAMMY® Awards, becoming the first and only hip-hop artist in history to win the GRAMMY® for “Album of the Year” upon release of the 2003 RIAA Diamond-certified Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
His half, Speakerboxxx, set the stage for what has become an equally impressive solo run. He made his proper introduction as a solo artist in
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Patton, Antwan 1975–
Hip-hop recording artist
Recognized as a Rhyming Hip-Hop Prodigy
Turned America on to the “Dirty South” Sound
Found His Way with Ghettomusick
Selected works
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Compared to his rather flam-boyant “partner in rhyme,” Outkast’s Antwan Patton appears, for lack of a better term, conservative. Fans might consider him a living paradox. That is his appeal. Even his stage alias, Big Boi, contradicts his small stature. And his charismatic wooing of large audiences and skillful building of a music empire contrasts with his self-imposed status as a social out-cast. As he seeks to extract music and rhymes from America’s fringe groups and not-so-distant past, he finds his work appealing to audiences from mainstream American culture.
Though Patton successfully brings a freshness to rap and hip-hop, his flash is somewhat dimmed by the resplendent glitz and unrestrained pizzazz of Outkast’s other half, Andre Benjamin, also known as Andre 3000. What might be flamboyant on the average Joe seems conservative on Big
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