Big Boi streams his new album, drops “Mix Tape For Dummies”
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Up until this point, Big Boi, a.k.a. Daddy Fat Sacks, a.k.a. General Patton, has been best known for being one half of Outkast. But the release of his forthcoming ‘Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty’ ushers in a new phase in his career: one of the finest solo artists in rap music.
Following a trying three-year ordeal with repeated release date postponements and a switch from Jive to Def Jam, his first official solo record is currently streaming on Myspace and finally hits stores Tuesday. The finished product was well worth the wait -- a fat slab of back-breaking modern funk -- a different iteration than that of Dam-Funk, but with all the post-Zapp signifiers: vocoders, rainbow synths, with clapping drums that knock like the best Southern rap.
It’s not an Outkast record, it’s a Big Boi record: lush, bright and deliriously funky. In a major label rap environment plagued by awkward commercial compromises and mediocrity, this is the rare release worth rewarding with your wallet. But for those looking for a free lunch, Big Boi is giving away his ‘Mix Tape for Dummies: Guide to Global Domination’ , a career retrospective including new tracks from ‘Sir Lucious Left Foot.’
Tracklist below the jump.
Tracklist:
01 Mix Tape for Dummies Intro
02 Playa’s Ball
03 Benz or Beamer
04 Dirty South
05 Royal Flush
06 ATLiens
07 Shutterbugg
08 Throw Ya Hands Up
09 Cruisin’ in the ATL Skit 10 Hootie Hoo
11 Hood Figga
12 D-Boy Skit
13 So Hood
14 Kryptonite
15 B.O.B.
16 Ghetto Music
17 The Way You Move
18 Henry Welch and Lil Rod Skit
19 Hold Up [ft. Chris Brown]
20 Record Store Skit
21 Love in Your Mouth
22 So Fresh, So Clean
23 85
24 Elevators
25 And I Luv U
26 Tell C-Bone
27 She Got a Friend
28 Gangsta [Shhh]
-- Jeff Weiss
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