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“It’s always an honor to get out in front of the crowds and just give them that high energy hit after hit, after hit,” he tells PEOPLE. “It’s all about positive vibrations, and we all the hip-hop special forces, the sniper unit. We come in and kill it and leave, you know what I’m talking about? Like that.”
“Oh man, we’re doing everything fromSouthernplayalisticto the newBig Sleepover,” Big Boi says. “So, they’re going to get some of the older materials, some of the newest, some of the middle. It’s all-times classic. It’s going to be singing. So, we ain’t finna play with them at all. At all. I don’t care who out there, old ladies, babies. We finna kryptonite everything.”
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The rapper is a chameleon when it comes to his own broad range of musical interests that help round him out as an artist.
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During his solo artist journey, Big Boi has penned, produced and created many projects that are held as staple works within his discography. These include his half of theSpeakerboxxx/The Love Belowalbum under the group name Outkast, but is regarded as a solo project for both artists, hisSir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dustyreleased in 2010, and a host of other projects seasoned with just as much creative flavoring.
When he’s not cooking up something delicious at home — “I’ve perfected my garlic lobster air fryer recipe” — Big Boi is putting the finishing touches on his upcoming album. The impending project is a collaborative album with two rap greats, Killer Mike and Sleepy Brown. Big Boi tells PEOPLE that his new music is about him evolving as an artist and finding a way to have the
“The Big Sleepoveris a Big Boi and Sleepy Brown collaborative album,” he said. “The Big Sleepoverwas not a slumber party. It’s the opposite. We here to wake them up. So just got to check the lyrics to substance. New rhymes, melodies, cadences. When you make music and you’ve been doing it for as long as I have, it’s all about evolution. That’s how I’m able to be here now — you got to reinvent yourself every time.”
source: people.com
