OutKast, the hip-hop duo of André “3000” Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton, 0riginated in Atlanta, Georgia in 1992. They rose to prominence in the mid-1990s, becoming one of the most influential and commercially successful hip-hop groups of all time. Patton and Benjamin formed Outkast as high school students. They released their debut studio album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik in 1994, which gained popularity after its single “Player’s Ball” peaked atop the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart. In 2007 Outkast went on hiatus. Three years later Big Boi released the solo album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty to general acclaim, and he subsequently recorded Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors (2012) and Boomiverse (2017). André 3000, meanwhile, confined himself to producing and recording with other artists.
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