His younger brother James raps under the name Lil' Brotha, and is a member of hip hop group Konkrete.īig Boi and André 3000 star in "Idlewild," a film about music in the Depression-era South. Numerous references to the Patton family are present in Big Boi's rhymes. His oldest son, Antwan Jr., is from a prior relationship. The first single from the album was "Kryptonite", which cracked the Billboard Hot 100 and was a hit on hip hop radio.īig Boi is married to Sherlita Patton, with whom he has two children: a daughter, Jordan, and a son, Bamboo. He released a mixtape/compilation album, "Got Purp? Vol 2," in conjunction with the Purple Ribbon All-Stars in November 2005 on Purple Ribbon Records. The second single from Big Boi's side of the album was Ghetto Musick, which featured André 3000 and a sample from Patti LaBelle's Love, Need & Want You.ĭef Jam Records has announced "Sir Lucious Left Foot: the Son of Chico Dusty," a Big Boi solo effort will be released in the summer of 2010. When "The Way You Move" supplanted Hey Ya! as the #1 song on the US pop charts, OutKast achieved the rare honor of a group replacing itself at the top of the charts. Big Boi's single from the album, The Way You Move featuring Sleepy Brown, was originally supported by urban radio then crossed over to pop charts. Big Boi also produced a solo effort, and the two albums were packaged together as Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in 2003. His most notable guest appearances were on the 1999 Missy Elliott hit, "All N My Grill," the Youngbloodz' "85 South," and Trick Daddy's 2001 single "In Da Wind."Īfter four increasingly successful albums as a duo since 1991, André 3000 decided to make a solo album as a side project. In addition to his OutKast and Dungeon Family work, Big Boi has featured in other artists' songs. He can be identified by his rapid delivery and intricate rhymes, a style which has become more distinct since the album ATLiens. The Mama Told Me Songfacts reports that his sophomore set's title is a dedication of sorts to his recently deceased grandmother. After six successful albums as a duo they both decided to work on solo projects, and Big Boi's debut solo album Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty was released Jand his second solo album, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, was released on November 13, 2012. Big Boi met André 3000 while attending high school in the 1980s and the two eventually joined forces as OutKast and signed with LaFace Records. (You're in my system) Lucious Leftfoot's got his best foot forward darling Lord have mercy how them flows stay so cold, froze.Antwan André Patton (born Februin Savannah, Georgia), better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American Grammy Award winning rapper, producer, actor and half of the critically and commercially successful hip hop duo OutKast. Tell me you're listening cause you all up in my system I can feel you from my head to my toes. And throw yo' deuce up in the sky for the shutterbugg. And this goes out to all my ladies in the front. Now this goes out to all my playas in the back sippin' yack. You gotta be the finisher to make it sure the doctors, they can't replenish him. Self-preservation is the rule when you do aim. Not to flex but to protect my neck like the Wu-Tang. Index finger on the trigger in case niggas is clowning. Paint look like root beer when the sun was shining. Toys, I had a brougham, called it pretty brown thing. Could it be the way the verse is sounding? Came up on the Gheto Boys and the Underground Kingz. baby baby tell me your listening.īoy, it's after 12, club's like A Hive Bee, A bee hive cause not everybody buzzin around me. I'm double fisted and if you're empty you can grab a cup. Now party people in the club it's time to cut a rug and throw the deuce up in the sky just for the shutrerbuggs. I'm shittin' on niggas and pee'ing on the seat. in a blink them folks could have you sleeping in the clink. They got flour for tortillas and lettuce for enchiladas. To satisfy my people in Georgia and across the waterĪnd across the boarder the ese's are getting smarter. Wow, the southern pride been known to shut it downīut it ain’t so country my nigga this ain’t no Gomer Pile Or throw on the Gucci bucket with the flowers super fly I twist my A hat to the side just for style Uh, I keep it playa while some choose to play it safeīoy check the resume, it’s risky business in the AĪnd I’ve been a witness to this history
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