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mainstreamDocumentedDuo · East Point, Atlanta, GA · 1992–2007
Genres: Hip-Hop · Southern
Duo of André "3000" Benjamin and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, developed with Organized Noize in the Dungeon. Their 1994 debut on LaFace helped put Atlanta on the national hip-hop map.
Golden Age
Releases in 1994
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (LP)
Scene events
None recorded.
Stories
The Dungeon: A Basement in East Point
Duo of André "3000" Benjamin and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, developed with Organized Noize in the Dungeon. Their 1994 debut on LaFace helped put Atlanta on the national hip-hop map.
Origin: East Point, Atlanta · Aliases: André 3000 & Big Boi
Videos
Player's Ball (video)
Video · licensed media placeholder
Interviews
Conversation with OutKast
Interview · licensed media placeholder
Photographs
Organized Noize worked out of a basement studio in Rico Wade's family home in East Point, nicknamed the Dungeon. OutKast, Goodie Mob and others developed there, and the circle became known as the Dungeon Family.
At the 1995 Source Awards in New York, OutKast won Best New Rap Group to boos from the crowd. André 3000 answered: "The South got something to say." The moment became a symbol of Southern hip-hop's arrival.
LaFace
The Dungeon
Basement studio · East Point
Magic City
Club · Downtown
Basement studios, skating rinks and strip-mall record shops building a Southern sound. (Golden Age → Digital & Mixtape Era)