Chonkyfire

Chonkyfire

OutKast

The closing track to OutKast’s classic Aquemini features a beat filled with guitar riffs that foreshadow the musical direction of OK’s next album, Stankonia. Andre said the following about the track:

I remember reading about human beings and how if everybody is in the same place, humanity can go to another dimension. And when I’m saying that and recording that – ‘You are now entering the fifth dimension of ascension/Our only mission is to take you high’ – that’s what I’m thinking. I was just trying to make the impossible out of music, make people rise in some kind of way.

The track ends with the game-changing moment OutKast delivered at the 1995 Source Awards when they accepted the award for Best New Rap Group to a chorus of boos from the New York crowd. This prompted Andre to drop the iconic statement, “The South got something to say,” opening the door for Atlanta, and the Southern region as a whole, to elevate their status in the rap game in the following years.