The point to all of this is this: ATLiens is an album that resonates with me like really no other album does. It's an album that really just means so much to me personally, and there is no other album, including any Eminem album, that just means so much to me, and gets to me so emotionally as this one. Everything about it, the cover, the CD, the beautiful liner art and coloring, just mean so much to me. As much as I'm talking out of my ass, I really mean it. There's an indescribeable-aura about the album for me, sometimes it gives m that near goosebump feeling. The word "beautiful" isn't a word I throw around for rap albums too often, but I can't help but use it for ATLiens.

ATLiens (SOOOO CLASSIC!!! Andre might've won in the lyrical department, but Big Boi's first verse is the definition of swag!) Sony Music Entertainment’s Legacy Recordings and Certified Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of ATLiens, Outkast’s Game-Changing Second Studio Album, with Expanded Digital & Vinyl Editions, HD Digital Singles, Limited Edition Anniversary Merch & More The second album in Outkast's string of classics, and in my opinion, the best. The album speaks for itself, one of the best albums I've ever listened to AND it has great replay value. The beats alone are good enough to cruise around the city with your windows down, but the lyrics, the lyrics are outstanding - particularly Andre 3000. He is exceptional on every song he appears on, while Big Boi brings the country "swang" and flow that gets your head to start bopping. What makes this album so good? Everything meshes, nothing sounds out of place, everything from the beats to the hooks, sounds natural, like it was meant to be. On their debut, Andre 3000 and Big Boi were far above average rappers, and on ATLiens, they're even further above average rappers. With Goodie's Mob's first album the south changed it's game entirely toward a native sound and boom of creativity. Like any mortal, Outkast would logically have followed in suit and made some more of that new dope sound. But Outkast is Outkast and they instead only blazed more new ground! The album is bizarre in a way, mixing the down home soul of "Soul Food" with a jeep booming sci-fi atmosphere. What? Yeah I know, straneg. But it's dope as hell without question. It's an intensly moody album in the best way, giving the sense of a creamy darkness like early morning sky. The emceeing is the main leap though, Andre 3000 has started going out on his own into being on of rap's most singular personalties here (as evidenced by the turban on the cover). Because of this we get the start of Outkast's natural dichotomy between the spacey musings of Dre and the street hardness of Big Boi. From start to finish this is great and lovingly made. So few other rap acts put this level of effort into every corner of their releases. You just want to look over every rhyme, every inch of the production. If only the south could have followed Outkast on their wild journey into pushing the envelope on this route, but it too was heading for darker times of cliche and mindlessness. But even that would be gradual, while west and east fell hard, creating the end of the golden age, the south's golden years would continue on for a little while more, largely on the strength of Outkast itself.Exclusive Limited Edition 4xLP + Glow In The Dark 7" Bundle Originally released on August 27, 1996, ATLiens has been listed by several magazines and critics as one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. To commemorate the 25th Anniversary Get On Down is proud to offer an exclusive bundle including:

Coming to you from Vinyl Me, Please (VMP), in association with SME, is the “extraterrestrial-straight from ATL” sophomore album fromOutkast, ATLiens .The 25th Anniversary Edition of ATLienswill be featured as Vinyl Me,Please’sHip-Hop Record of the Month for August 2021. Available to VMP members on 2LP Neon Green and Blue Galaxy vinyl, this album is mastered at half speed and includes an exclusive Listening Notes booklet for an overall listening experience that is out of this world. Join Vinyl Me, Please as they explore new galaxies of sounds that are lost and found to create transcendent tangible music experiences.Preview theATLiens2LP vinyl experience here. ATLiens is one of the best hip hop albums of all time. It's by far my favorite OutKast album. I recommend it to all hip hop fans. Especially, fans of southern hip hop and conscious hip hop. With ATLiens, Outkast’s second studio album, the American hip-hop duo focused an outer space-inspired musical lens on 1996 Atlanta street culture, finding common ground in a range of characters from hustlers to extra-terrestrials.To celebrate the anniversary, we’re releasing the ATLiens (25 th Anniversary Edition) on 4 LP’s, which includes the original album plus the Instrumentals which are being released commercially for the first time!

producer 1, 2, 5, 8-12, 14, 15, remixer 15, drum programming 1, 2, 4, 5, 8-13, 15, keyboards 1, 2, 4, 5, 8-13, 15 Released on August 27, 1996, by LaFace Records. ATLiensentered the Billboard 200 chart at #2 and sold nearly 350,000 copies within two weeks of release. The album It has been certified double platinum by the RIAA, for shipments of two million copies in the United States, and generated the hit singles “Elevators (Me & You)”, “ATLiens”, and “Jazzy Belle”. I've stated before that the lyrics on ATLiens really aren't that much different from their debut, and I still stand by that, and I still stand by that. Just because they're aliens doesn't mean that they aren't "Paliens" as I believe I described them. They still talk about life in the ATL ("Dectatur Psalm"), and kind of acting like pimps ("Wheelz of Steel"), and while it isn't rampant pimping, it is still emboiled in their roots. Real life is still emboiled heavily in a space-aged album like this one.The coolest album that'll ever sex your ears. Production is outstanding, the lyrics are provoking, you can play it in your car or when you need some intellect. Amazing. OutKast's debut, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, was a classic. Two years later, they released ATLiens. It had a much different sound and many criticize for that, but times had changed and true artists are always looking to evolve. Personally, I think ATLiens is OutKast's best album.