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Big Boi is one cool dude. There's no denying that. When he came in the game as one-half of legendary rap group Outkast in the early '90s, we all took notice of his style. There was something slick about him that went beyond the brilliance of his bars. Maybe it was his precise pronunciation, or the slight tilt of his brim. Regardless, he was just that cat. Straight up and down.
Almost two decades later, Big Boi is now killing it as a solo artist, most recently with the release of his second official solo album, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors. And just as he did on his last solo effort, and throughout the untouchable Outkast catalog, he displays his wide range of musical influences song after song. We got on the horn with Daddy Fat Sacks right before the holidays to find out exactly what jams he listens to in order to inspire such an eclectic sound. He broke down his 25 favorite albums for us, which includes LPs by his top two artists of all time, Kate Bush and Bob Marley, hip-hop joints by everyone from 2 Live Crew to Mobb Deep, a fair share of rock and soul, and a healthy sprinkling of his own personal flavor, too. This is not your average, run-of-the-mill list of faves, but that was to be expected. Dig it.
Big Boi is one cool dude. There's no denying that. When he came in the game as one-half of legendary rap group Outkast in the early '90s, we all took notice of his style. There was something slick about him that went beyond the brilliance of his bars. Maybe it was his precise pronunciation, or the slight tilt of his brim. Regardless, he was just that cat. Straight up and down.
Almost two decades later, Big Boi is now killing it as a solo artist, most recently with the release of his second official solo album, Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors. And just as he did on his last solo effort, and throughout the untouchable Outkast catalog, he displays his wide range of musical influences song after song. We got on the horn with Daddy Fat Sacks right before the holidays to find out exactly what jams he listens to in order to inspire such an eclectic sound. He broke down his 25 favorite albums for us, which includes LPs by his top two artists of all time, Kate Bush and Bob Marley, hip-hop joints by everyone from 2 Live Crew to Mobb Deep, a fair share of rock and soul, and a healthy sprinkling of his own personal flavor, too. This is not your average, run-of-the-mill list of faves, but that was to be expected. Dig it.
25 Funkadelic, Cosmic Slop (1973)Cosmic Slop (1973) -->
Label: Westbound Big Boi: "All the Funkadelic albums were kind of scattered, and they were like abstract funk. Just to hear them build on the songs, from 'Cosmic Slop' on down. The instrumentation on the records were just crazy. And the music is just free-forming. And he has some of the dopest album covers ever. "I grew up on this. My grandmother listened to everything from Funkadelic to The Police to Bob Marley. She would send us to the store to go buy 45s every weekend, and we'd buy whatever the new record that was out for her. And she'd play that shit and wash clothes and clean the house and take care of us. I was exposed to a lot of music. That's why I can use everything, because I hear everything for what it is. If it's dope, it's dope."
Label: Westbound Big Boi: "All the Funkadelic albums were kind of scattered, and they were like abstract funk. Just to hear them build on the songs, from 'Cosmic Slop' on down. The instrumentation on the records were just crazy. And the music is just free-forming. And he has some of the dopest album covers ever. "I grew up on this. My grandmother listened to everything from Funkadelic to The Police to Bob Marley. She would send us to the store to go buy 45s every weekend, and we'd buy whatever the new record that was out for her. And she'd play that shit and wash clothes and clean the house and take care of us. I was exposed to a lot of music. That's why I can use everything, because I hear everything for what it is. If it's dope, it's dope."
24 Bootsy's Rubber Band, Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! (1977)Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby! (1977) -->
Label: Warner Bros. Big Boi: "This is one of the albums that I really listened to and got deep with when we were working on SouthernPlayalistic. We were really into the funk back then, and still are. As far as Bootsy goes, he's the funkmaster, along with George [Clinton]. And the melodies he would use in the songs [are incredible]. There was a lot of flair on that record. Even the costumes they would perform in. I still got that on my iPod to this day."
Label: Warner Bros. Big Boi: "This is one of the albums that I really listened to and got deep with when we were working on SouthernPlayalistic. We were really into the funk back then, and still are. As far as Bootsy goes, he's the funkmaster, along with George [Clinton]. And the melodies he would use in the songs [are incredible]. There was a lot of flair on that record. Even the costumes they would perform in. I still got that on my iPod to this day."
23 Marvin Gaye, Here, My Dear (1978)Here, My Dear (1978) -->
Label: Tamla Big Boi: "That was a deep album. It was at the time when he was going through a divorce from his wife, and he was doing the album like, 'Here, my dear, take this, and all the proceeds from it.' And he was talking about his feelings. One of my favorite songs on that album is 'When Did You Stop Loving Me.' It's deep, man. He was talking about going to court with her, and at first how they fell in love, and now he's got the court system in their business. It's reality music."
Label: Tamla Big Boi: "That was a deep album. It was at the time when he was going through a divorce from his wife, and he was doing the album like, 'Here, my dear, take this, and all the proceeds from it.' And he was talking about his feelings. One of my favorite songs on that album is 'When Did You Stop Loving Me.' It's deep, man. He was talking about going to court with her, and at first how they fell in love, and now he's got the court system in their business. It's reality music."
20 Label: Def Jam, Columbia, CBS
Big Boi: "He was one of my favorite MCs coming up. I had that tape as well. I might've been in the 5th or 6th grade or something like that, and he was just the coolest rapper on the planet. Him and Big Daddy Kane were just the coolest guys ever. And not just for the roast. He spit game. He was one of the greatest storytellers of all time, when it comes to hip-hop music. And that was just a great record. You could visualize the words and things he was saying. He was so cool. I'm all about the cool shit.
"Yeah, he was on 'Da Art of Storytellin'' remix, and then me and him did 'Street Talkin'' for his record. We were like, 'Who better to get on this remix than the greatest ever to tell a story?' And we did it, recorded it, went out to L.A. to shoot the video, and everybody had fur coats to the floor. I had my hair permed-out, pressed down flat like a pimp, ya' feel me? That was a real good time. We had the puppets in the video, too. It was real good. They tried to charge me 40 goddamn thousand dollars for one of them puppets."
Big Boi: "He was one of my favorite MCs coming up. I had that tape as well. I might've been in the 5th or 6th grade or something like that, and he was just the coolest rapper on the planet. Him and Big Daddy Kane were just the coolest guys ever. And not just for the roast. He spit game. He was one of the greatest storytellers of all time, when it comes to hip-hop music. And that was just a great record. You could visualize the words and things he was saying. He was so cool. I'm all about the cool shit.
"Yeah, he was on 'Da Art of Storytellin'' remix, and then me and him did 'Street Talkin'' for his record. We were like, 'Who better to get on this remix than the greatest ever to tell a story?' And we did it, recorded it, went out to L.A. to shoot the video, and everybody had fur coats to the floor. I had my hair permed-out, pressed down flat like a pimp, ya' feel me? That was a real good time. We had the puppets in the video, too. It was real good. They tried to charge me 40 goddamn thousand dollars for one of them puppets."
19 New Edition, Heart Break (1988)
Label: MCA
Big Boi: "That was like the last album that they put out. 'Can You Stand the Rain,' 'I'm Comin' Home.' That's the one based on them going on tour. 'If It Isn't Love.' Come on man, that's just some real feel-good music. That album right there kind of brought me in touch with my loverboy side. Really serenading a young lady, really talking to 'em. You know, moistening 'em up. That was a really romantic album. You could tongue kiss to that record, you feel me?
"It's all some cool shit. We ain't about the bullshit. Girls before guns all day. But you still need these guns for these fools out here, though. You might have to bust a nigga head."
Label: MCA
Big Boi: "That was like the last album that they put out. 'Can You Stand the Rain,' 'I'm Comin' Home.' That's the one based on them going on tour. 'If It Isn't Love.' Come on man, that's just some real feel-good music. That album right there kind of brought me in touch with my loverboy side. Really serenading a young lady, really talking to 'em. You know, moistening 'em up. That was a really romantic album. You could tongue kiss to that record, you feel me?
"It's all some cool shit. We ain't about the bullshit. Girls before guns all day. But you still need these guns for these fools out here, though. You might have to bust a nigga head."
17 Tom Petty, Full Moon Fever (1989)
Label: MCA
Big Boi: "One of my favorite lines off that is, 'You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.' I mean, come on man, he must've been foolish in love with this girl. I just liked Tom Petty. I guess I was into this when I was in middle school.
"Hence the slang term, 'Tom Petty that hoe.' 'Free Fallin'' with me, we say that around the studio like, when you leave the house, you don't know where you're gonna end up the next day. So that's 'Tom Petty.' You don't know what's gonna happen. That's like on some Hangover Part 6, Part 7, 8, 9, and 10 type shit."
Label: MCA
Big Boi: "One of my favorite lines off that is, 'You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.' I mean, come on man, he must've been foolish in love with this girl. I just liked Tom Petty. I guess I was into this when I was in middle school.
"Hence the slang term, 'Tom Petty that hoe.' 'Free Fallin'' with me, we say that around the studio like, when you leave the house, you don't know where you're gonna end up the next day. So that's 'Tom Petty.' You don't know what's gonna happen. That's like on some Hangover Part 6, Part 7, 8, 9, and 10 type shit."
14 N.W.A, Niggaz4Life (1991)
Label: Ruthless, Priority
Big Boi: "That's one of my favorites because of the production, and how it was put together. Dr. Dre really killed it, and it was an adventure. From the skits, and how they tied them into all the songs and everything. It was one of the first tapes I ever bought in my life, and the beats were so hard. Them boys were going off."
Label: Ruthless, Priority
Big Boi: "That's one of my favorites because of the production, and how it was put together. Dr. Dre really killed it, and it was an adventure. From the skits, and how they tied them into all the songs and everything. It was one of the first tapes I ever bought in my life, and the beats were so hard. Them boys were going off."
13 Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill (1991)
Label: Ruffhouse, Columbia, SME
Big Boi: "This the mother****in' jam. Them hard-ass eses from the west coast. I was really into Cypress Hill. They were like renegades to me. Songs like 'How I Could Just Kill A Man,' 'Hand on the Pump.' 'Stoned Is The Way of the Walk' is like my favorite shit. I actually played with Cypress Hill in Berlin last year, and it was my first time being at a live Cypress Hill concert, and that shit is ****in' incredible. From Bobo on the percussions, to B-Real and Sen Dog, it's dope.
"These are some of the groups that we looked up to coming up. Buying the t-shirts out of Peppermint's [record store] and things like that."
Label: Ruffhouse, Columbia, SME
Big Boi: "This the mother****in' jam. Them hard-ass eses from the west coast. I was really into Cypress Hill. They were like renegades to me. Songs like 'How I Could Just Kill A Man,' 'Hand on the Pump.' 'Stoned Is The Way of the Walk' is like my favorite shit. I actually played with Cypress Hill in Berlin last year, and it was my first time being at a live Cypress Hill concert, and that shit is ****in' incredible. From Bobo on the percussions, to B-Real and Sen Dog, it's dope.
"These are some of the groups that we looked up to coming up. Buying the t-shirts out of Peppermint's [record store] and things like that."
12 Dr. Dre, The Chronic (1992)
Label: Death Row, Interscope, Priority
Big Boi: "That's one of my favorite put-together albums of all time. See, what we're into now, it's all about singles. But I'm into full bodies of work, from beginning to ending, that take you on a ride. And I guess Dr. Dre can be credited with showing me how to put together albums, because his shit was put together so nicely. From Snoop'sDoggystyle to Niggaz4Life to The Chronic album. The structure of those, straight full bodies of work. We're the last of a dying breed."
Label: Death Row, Interscope, Priority
Big Boi: "That's one of my favorite put-together albums of all time. See, what we're into now, it's all about singles. But I'm into full bodies of work, from beginning to ending, that take you on a ride. And I guess Dr. Dre can be credited with showing me how to put together albums, because his shit was put together so nicely. From Snoop'sDoggystyle to Niggaz4Life to The Chronic album. The structure of those, straight full bodies of work. We're the last of a dying breed."
11 Various Artists, Boomerang (Soundtrack) (1992)
Label: LaFace
Big Boi: "LaFace R ecords, man. We were part of the team back then. This was right around the time when we were getting our record deal. To hear how they put that thing together, from 'Love Shoulda Brought You Home' to A Tribe Called Quest 'Hot S#x,' which was my favorite song on that album. It was well-rounded.
"That's when they were calling LaFace 'the Motown of the South.' And to be a part of that movement, and [affiliated with a label that put out] such a great album [was an honor]. That's one of the dope records that I always play in my car."
Label: LaFace
Big Boi: "LaFace R ecords, man. We were part of the team back then. This was right around the time when we were getting our record deal. To hear how they put that thing together, from 'Love Shoulda Brought You Home' to A Tribe Called Quest 'Hot S#x,' which was my favorite song on that album. It was well-rounded.
"That's when they were calling LaFace 'the Motown of the South.' And to be a part of that movement, and [affiliated with a label that put out] such a great album [was an honor]. That's one of the dope records that I always play in my car."
10 The Isley Brothers, Beautiful Ballads (1994)
Label: Legacy
Big Boi: "This was around the time when I met my wife, actually. And this was like the soundtrack to my life. Back in the Southernplayalistic days, when we were touring, we used to do in-stores at the Mom & Pop stores, and we'd go CD or record shopping after that. And that was one of the gems that we picked up. There's a lot of Isley Brothers classics on that. Nothing but red lights and incense. That's all I can see when I listen to that music. They don't do it like that no more."
Label: Legacy
Big Boi: "This was around the time when I met my wife, actually. And this was like the soundtrack to my life. Back in the Southernplayalistic days, when we were touring, we used to do in-stores at the Mom & Pop stores, and we'd go CD or record shopping after that. And that was one of the gems that we picked up. There's a lot of Isley Brothers classics on that. Nothing but red lights and incense. That's all I can see when I listen to that music. They don't do it like that no more."
9 Mobb Deep, The Infamous (1995)
Label: Loud, RCA, BMG
Big Boi: "I love the album for the production. It was dark. Hard, too. This was around the time we were working on our second record. It was two dudes from New York, and the beats were crazy, and they were just spittin'. They were New York dudes, with some heavy 808s, and some crazy chopped up samples. They really got down on that.
"There was a mutual respect . These were like the Civil Rights days of music, when the South was looked at as not being lyrical, or whatever. Of course you had Scarface, but they didn't give him all his recognition. But for us to come in, and really be bustin', and letting them know that the South had something to say, it just [led to] a mutual respect and admiration for the music."
Label: Loud, RCA, BMG
Big Boi: "I love the album for the production. It was dark. Hard, too. This was around the time we were working on our second record. It was two dudes from New York, and the beats were crazy, and they were just spittin'. They were New York dudes, with some heavy 808s, and some crazy chopped up samples. They really got down on that.
"There was a mutual respect . These were like the Civil Rights days of music, when the South was looked at as not being lyrical, or whatever. Of course you had Scarface, but they didn't give him all his recognition. But for us to come in, and really be bustin', and letting them know that the South had something to say, it just [led to] a mutual respect and admiration for the music."
