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Outkast(Andre 3000) - The Love Below
 (La Face/Arista Records)

"Stank you, smelly much" to Andre3000 for ending my journey of diggin in the crates for something to listen to. This album is a mix of soul, R&B, rock, hip-hop and everything else in between. We've watched over the years as Dre morphed into en eclectic being, never downplaying his lyrical skills or losing his rhyme pattern but expanding his music tastes to include a little bit of everything. He's defined himself as an artist, not a hip-hop artist, but a music artist who will give you exactly what you want, whether it be singing, rapping or sick beats, he wants you to feel this.

The Love Below  is one more mile (or two, or maybe even twenty) outside of anything he's done so far. We knew Dre was expanding and venturing to yet another musical plateau - especially at the end of Stankonia - but this is above and beyond my expectations. It's true that Dre doesn't rhyme as much on this album, not even in every song, but when he does the shit is sick, just incredible. He's definitely still got it in him.

To say this album is creative is the understatement of the year, I mean, this IS...Andre 3000. Dre never ceases to amaze me with his creativity and diversity, always one-upping himself. This is music ya'll, this is music without boundaries, without titles and without limits. more..

- reviewed by Tricia

"Stank you, smelly much" to Andre3000 for ending my journey of diggin in the crates for something to listen to. This album is a mix of soul, R&B, rock, hip-hop and everything else in between. We've watched over the years as Dre morphed into en eclectic being, never downplaying his lyrical skills or losing his rhyme pattern but expanding his music tastes to include a little bit of everything. He's defined himself as an artist, not a hip-hop artist, but a music artist who will give you exactly what you want, whether it be singing, rapping or sick beats, he wants you to feel this.

The Love Below is one more mile (or two, or maybe even twenty) outside of anything he's done so far. We knew Dre was expanding and venturing to yet another musical plateau - especially at the end of Stankonia - but this is above and beyond my expectations. It's true that Dre doesn't rhyme as much on this album, not even in every song, but when he does the shit is sick, just incredible. He's definitely still got it in him.

To say this album is creative is the understatement of the year, I mean, this IS...Andre 3000. Dre never ceases to amaze me with his creativity and diversity, always one-upping himself. This is music ya'll, this is music without boundaries, without titles and without limits.

I want to warn ya'll...Before you press play, open your mind AND your ears, don't try put this album into one category or genre, it's music, think of it as such, you won't be disappointed.

For a quick rundown of the songs go back to the ratings and hover your mouse over the track names..

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Track By Track
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1.  The Love Below (Int)
2.  Love Hater
3.  God (Interlude)
4.  Happy Valentine's Day
5.  Spread
6.  Where Are My
     Panties?
7.  Prototype
8.  She Lives in My Lap
9.  Hey Ya!
10. Roses
11. Good Day, Good Sir
12. Behold a Lady
13. Pink & Blue
14. Love in War
15. She's Alive
16. Dracula's Wedding
17. Take Off Your Cool
18. Vibrate
19. A Life in the Day of
      Benjamin Andre
20. (Hidden Track)
The Industry Says

Stylus Magazine.com - A+ "The Love Below, on the other hand, is a sonnet cycle about falling in love. No, really. A modern day, hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic psychedelic-pop-funk-electro-jazz sonnet cycle with no regard for iambic pentameters or 14-line rhyme schemes put together by an estranged vegan hip-hop superhero, certainly, but you get what I mean."


The Village Voice - "If you worship at other altars, know that Mr. 3000 talks more than he rhymes on The Love Below and sings profusely about Love.. and our romantic hero's love for ladies, lap dancers, unicorns, and prototypes. There's lotsa love and nostalgia in the music too: a drunken Art Ensemble of Chicago swing thing here, an Earth Wind and Fire torchsong there, a punk rockabilly stomp, the ever Princely combo of swooping symphony and gooseneck woodblock beats, and an instrumental jungle variation on Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" up in here."


NUDE as the NEWS.com - "He didn't so much make a hip-hop album as an album made by a hip-hop person. The record contains charged electro-funk, sex romps a la mid-'80s Prince, breezy acoustic ballads, haunted-house themes and cabaret experiments. Lyrically, the whole album is predictably love-themed, but the precocious Andre stretches within his boundaries.. aiming his pink gun to blast playas off the street and onto the altar."



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