[Everyone's] been saying, 'Does it exist? Does it not exist?' Yeah, it exists, ... It's done. Universal [Pictures] just picked it up. I saw the first two rough cuts of it. It's going major. It's crazy. |
[He also confirmed that the Idlewild soundtrack will be out in December, and will for all intents and purposes be the next Outkast album. The first single is] Idlewild Blues, ... crazy... It used to be a Rock track [ Andre 3000 ] flipped the track to make it more Dirty South. |
[It influenced the music] in our own little way, just with the Ragtime feel. It's Hip-Hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years. Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD. It was like, where do we go from here?, |
[Referring to his successful Atlanta-based dog breeding business, Big Boi explained the name of the label:] My 'Purple Ribbon' dogs have a strong blood line that goes back three generations. I want to put out potent funk music. Purple Ribbon is gonna be so strong you can smell it. ... This is a Big Boi thang, not an OutKast thang. I'm doing films, but music is my first love. |
I called Jermaine [Dupri, artist/producer and head of black music at Virgin], and it was on. |
I want to call Virgin home, and Purple Ribbon is the means for me to do that |
I'm going to try to bring the whole family back together like Voltron, |
It took me weeks to finish my part on the song. The track has been around for a minute. It used to be, like, a rock track — Dre flipped the track to make it more Dirty South. |
It's all about easy living down here, ... Now, that I've been around in the world, there's a lot of things I could do in the entertainment scene down here. |
It's cool to have somebody that you know sitting in a power position. ... He can make things happen in a timely fashion just by pushing buttons and that's what I've been waiting for. |
It's cool to have somebody you know in a power position that can make things happen for you in a timely fashion, ... He can push the button real fast. That's what I've been waiting for. |
It's not like every song is about the movie, ... The movie is based on relationships: with your family, the most high, your business relationships. The album is about everything, not just relationships. |
It's not like every song is about the movie. The movie is based on relationships: with your family, the most high, your business relationships. The album is about everything, not just relationships. |
Just with the Ragtime feel. It's hip-hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years. Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD. It was like, where do we go from here? |
People been saying 'musical,' ... It's not like [in the movie] I'm talking and then start singing; it's a film with musical parts in it. It has brand-new Outkast songs, and it also has music from the Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below album incorporated into it as well. [The film] comes out anywhere between November and January. |