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Deep Cut Friday: ‘Red Velvet’ by Outkast - SPIN
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Deep Cut Friday: ‘Red Velvet’ by Outkast - SPIN

SPIN·Al Shipley·about 1 month ago
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Deep Cut Friday The Stankonia track samples one of Big Boi’s favorite artists, Kate Bush Big Boi and Andre 3000 of Outkast in November 2002, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Credit: Gregory Bojorquez/Getty Images) Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Outkast’s Stankonia is a very popular record, certified platinum five times since its 2000 release. But it’s also a very long, 73-minute album stuffed full of different styles and genre experiments, and all the hits are in the first half. So I don’t think some of the later songs on Stankonia get enough attention, particularly the 18th track, “Red Velvet.” Like most of Stankonia , “Red Velvet” was produced by Earthtone III, the production team that both members of Outkast formed with David “Mr. DJ” Sheats. It was, alongside “Ms.…

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