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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, André 3000, in the past, most notably the Missy Elliott hit, "All N My Grill", and Trick Daddy's single "In Da Wind". They first came into the mainstream with the album Stankonia in 2000, followed by the song "Ms. Jackson", which topped the Billboard Hot 100, as well as it gaining success internationally, reaching top 3 in the UK and Australia. However, Outkast's 2003 double album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is Big Boi and André's first attempts at making an entire album solo. The double-disc set contains one full CD of solo songs by Big Boi and one entire CD of André solo. One song from each CD was released in September of 2003 as a single. André 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 pop charts and became almost as big a pop hit as "Hey Ya". Both songs topped the Billboard Hot 100.

Big Boi's first single off of Speakerboxxx was the hit "The Way You Move," which was followed by Andre's 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". He has now made a video for another song on his album, that song being "GhettoMusick" (featuring Patti LaBelle).

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