"Aquemini" Turned 20 Years Old Today

Even the Sun goes down
Heroes eventually die
Horoscopes, often lie
And sometimes “y”
Nothin’ is for sure
Nothin’ is for certain
Nothin’ lasts forever
But until they close the curtain
It’s him and I, Aquemini

When folks say the word “classic”, this should be on the short list of albums that immediately come to mind. Big Boi and Andre 3000 rapping their respective asses off for an hour and 15 minutes over some of the cleanest instrumentals to ever grace eardrums.

There isn’t much to say, honestly. There are hundreds of in-depth write ups celebrating this album out there, I just didn’t want the day to come and go without at least a hat tip to the GOAT rap group’s best project. If you wanted to argue this the greatest hiphop album of all time I don’t think you’d find very much pushback at all.I was nine when this album came out, so I can’t paint a picture of what it was like when this dropped. At the time the only track I even knew was “Rosa Parks” because that single was inescapable, much like every other Outkast single ever.

It wasn’t ’til I was older, with a semi-functioning brain in my head, when I could finally appreciate tracks like “Skew It On The Bar-B.”

Or the conceptually ambitious Art of Storytellin’ Parts 1 + 2.

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I could post every track. I just might, I haven’t decided yet. It’s that perfect, start to finish. Enjoy the rest of your Saturday by putting this album on repeat, you’ll be thankful you did. Long live the Mighty O.

Do you know what brings rats, mice, snakes, up out they hole?
Chonkyfire, spliced with rock & roll
Indubitably
Piper pied