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Revision as of 19:52, 15 September 2004 by 172.171.97.99 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Big Boi is one half of the successful and avant-garde hip-hop duo Outkast. Big Boi has been featured on other rap artist's tracks without his Outkast parter, Andre 3000, in the past, most notably the Missy Elliott hit, "All N My Grill", and Trick Daddy's single "In Da Wind". However, Outkast's 2003 double album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is Big Boi and Andre's first attempts at making an entire album solo. The double-disk set contains one full CD of solo songs by Big Boi and one entire CD of Andre solo. One song from each CD was released in September of 2003 as a single. Andre picked the bizarre-sounding "Hey Ya", which could be described as alternative in genre and has been supported by alternative rock radio, oddly enough, as well as pop radio. Big Boi's choice was the smooth urban single "The Way You Move". It was originally supported by urban radio, but then crossed over to to pop charts and became almost as big a pop hit as "Hey Ya". Both songs topped the Billboard Hot 100.
To date, Big Boi has only released "The Way You Move" as a single and video, while Andre, in the same time period, has released the singles: "Hey Ya", "Roses", and "Prototype". Andre's album was more critically-acclaimed than Big Boi's, and, for the time being, the duo seems to have returned to their partnership. Big Boi has appeared in all three of Andre's solo videos so far and even has "featured" rap status on "Roses".
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