The MC who impressed Outkast’s Big Boi to start out rapping once more

Outkast was among the many most enjoyable rap duos of the late Nineties and early 2000s. Comprised of André 3000 and Big Boi, the Atlanta collective launched an unfathomable quantity of chart-topping materials. From Aquemini and Stankonia to Speakerboxxx/The Love Beneath, Outkast was unstoppable. 

Big Boi has seen the highest of the charts as a part of the dynamic duo and has seen large success. Nevertheless, as a collective, Outkast’s final full-length mission was the full-length 20006 album Idlewild. 

Big Boi was rapping earlier than he met his partner in crime, André 3000. Nevertheless, the duo got here collectively as youngsters in East Atlanta following a rap battle on the Lenox Sq. Mall, a well-liked hotspot on the town’s East aspect. Following this, the 2 recognised their abilities and swiftly turned a dynamic duo.

Though Big Boi (actual title Antwan Patton) had relative solo success following the discharge of Idlewild, since his final physique of labor, Boomiverse, Patton unveiled that one lyricist, specifically, reignited his inventive drive. 

In a dialog for Rolling Stone’s ‘Musicians On Musicians’ sequence, Patton spoke along with his favorite modern artist, JID. Throughout their discuss, Big Boi advised the younger Atlanta musician that he beloved his music. Talking about his appreciation of JID, Patton acknowledged, “I hear somebody like you, and I’m like, ‘Yeah, boy. He get it.’ I love MCs who are not just rapping, but they’re saying stuff at the same time.”

He continued, “To me, being an MC, hearing J.I.D’s music makes me want to rap. That’s that shit.” Though his counterpart, André 3000, recently released an instrumental LP, Big Boi appeared to suggest that he was engaged on new hip-hop music.

In response to Big Boi’s reward, JID (actual title Destin Route) disclosed, “That’s the highest compliment, right there. If I make you want to rap, I can literally say you made me rap. These guys [Outkast], they were amazingly fearless. And that was something that attracted me to it.”

Big Boi and JID have beforehand labored collectively on Masego’s 2021 monitor ‘Garden Party.’ Nevertheless, JID was unsurprisingly blown away by Big Boi’s phrases and appeared actually grateful for the reward.