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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Studio album by OutKast
Released	September 23, 2003
Recorded	September 11, 2001 – September 17, 2003
Genre	Southern hip hop, funk (Speakerboxxx) Funk, R&B, pop (The Love Below)
Length	56:26 (Speakerboxxx) 78:30 (The Love Below) 136:56 (total)
Label	LaFace, Arista
Producer	Andre 3000, Big Boi, Carl Mo, Mr. DJ, Cutmaster Swiff, Dojo5
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Blender link Pitchfork (8.0/10) 2003 Robert Christgau (A-) link Rolling Stone 2003 Slant link
OutKast chronology
Big Boi And Dre Present...OutKast (2001) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003) Idlewild (2006)

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is a double album by the hip hop group OutKast, released on September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records. The release includes a solo album from both of the group's members. Speakerboxxx has Big Boi performing tracks more representative of the older OutKast style, while The Love Below, the solo project of André 3000, is performed in a more funk-based style. André primarily sings rather than rapping on The Love Below, marking a significant departure from his past work by OutKast. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below won Album of the Year and Best Rap Album at the Grammy Awards of 2004.

It is arguable that The Love Below is a concept album. It has a running theme (love and sexuality), the songs flow into each other, and the interludes throughout contribute towards a storyline set up by the music about a man's trials and tribulations on the quest for love, and indeed, as Andre 3000 makes no attempts to deny, to get laid.

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Critical reception 1.2 Chart progress 2 Track listing 2.1 Disc one: Speakerboxxx 2.2 Disc two: The Love Below 3 Samples used 4 Album singles 5 Chart positions 5.1 Album 5.2 Singles 6 See Also 7 External links

André 3000's The Love Below is substantially longer than Big Boi's Speakerboxxx, clocking for almost 78 minutes, compared to 56 minutes for Speakerboxxx. Featured guests on Speakerboxxx include Sleepy Brown, Jazze Pha, Jay-Z, Cee-Lo, Killer Mike, Goodie Mob, Lil' Jon and Ludacris. Guests on The Love Below include Rosario Dawson, Norah Jones, Kelis, and Farnsworth Bentley. Songs that were to be featured on The Love Below included "Millionaire" featuring Kelis and "Long Way to Go" featuring Gwen Stefani. Those two were scrapped, and instead included in the collaborators' own albums.

Big Boi included André 3000 in producing and co-writing quite a bit of Speakerboxxx. On the other hand, the only song on The Love Below featuring a rap by Big Boi is "Roses". [1]

The album was released on September 23, 2003 on Arista Records. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below has been certified diamond and 11 times platinum by the RIAA for shipping more than 11 million units (in this case, 5.5 million double album sets). [2], [3] The album also achieved critical success; it was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. the album also won the Grammy Award for Album of the year as well as the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album in the Grammys of 2004. In Australia, Hey Ya! was voted #2 on the 2003 Triple J Hottest 100, the biggest alternative music poll of its type in the country. In the jazz periodical DownBeat the album was voted as best "beyond" album.

The album reached the top of the Billboard 200 in 2003. "Hey Ya!" went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, topping the charts there for 9 weeks. The song also topped the charts in Canada and Australia and charted in 28 countries around the world. "The Way You Move" also topped the U.S. charts in 2004 and has charted in 17 countries around the world. "The Way You Move" knocked "Hey Ya!" off the top of the charts in the U.S., the sixth time a recording act has replaced itself at number one since Elvis Presley first did so in 1956. As well as breaking "Hey Ya!"'s run at number one, "The Way You Move" broke OutKast's overall run at the top spot, only staying there for one week before it gave way to "Slow Jamz" by Kanye West featuring Twista and Jamie Foxx. The third single released from the album was "Roses" from The Love Below while the fourth and fifth singles released were "Prototype" (The Love Below) and "Ghetto Musick" (Speakerboxxx) respectively.

Producers are noted with superscripts: (a) Big Boi, (b) André 3000, (c) Mr. DJ, (d) Carl Mo, (e) Cutmaster Swiff.

1. "Intro" – 1:29 ^e
2. "Ghetto Musick" (featuring André 3000) – 3:56 ^b
3. "Unhappy" – 3:19
4. "Bowtie" (featuring Sleepy Brown and Jazze Pha) – 3:56 ^a
5. "The Way You Move" (featuring Sleepy Brown) – 3:54 ^d
6. "The Rooster" – 3:57 ^d
7. "Bust" (featuring Killer Mike) – 3:08 ^a
8. "War" – 2:43 ^c
9. "Church" – 3:27 ^b
10. "Bamboo" (Interlude) – 2:09
11. "Tomb of the Boom" (featuring Konkrete, Big Gipp and Ludacris) – 4:46 ^a
12. "E-Mac" (Interlude) – 0:24
13. "Knowing" – 3:32 ^c
14. "Flip Flop Rock" (featuring Killer Mike and Jay-Z) – 4:35 ^a
15. "Interlude" – 1:15
16. "Reset" (featuring Khujo Goodie and Cee-Lo) – 4:35 ^a
17. "D-Boi" (Interlude) – 0:40
18. "Last Call" (featuring Slimm Calhoun, Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz and Mello) – 3:57 ^b
19. "Bowtie" (Postlude) – 0:34

All tracks were produced solely by André 3000 except "Roses", produced by Dojo5 and André 3000.

1. "The Love Below" (Intro) – 1:27
2. "Love Hater" – 2:49
3. "God" (Interlude) – 2:20
4. "Happy Valentine's Day" – 5:23
5. "Spread" – 3:51
6. "Where Are My Panties?" – 1:54
7. "Prototype" – 5:26
8. "She Lives in My Lap" (featuring Rosario Dawson) – 4:27
9. "Hey Ya!" – 3:55
10. "Roses" (featuring Big Boi) – 6:09
11. "Good Day Good Sir" (Interlude) (featuring Fonzworth Bentley) – 1:24
12. "Behold a Lady" – 4:37
13. "Pink & Blue" – 5:04
14. "Love in War" – 3:25
15. "She's Alive" – 4:06
16. "Dracula's Wedding" (featuring Kelis) – 2:32
17. "The Letter" (interlude, only featured on later pressings) – 0:21
18. "My Favorite Things" – 5:14
19. "Take Off Your Cool" (featuring Norah Jones) – 2:38
20. "Vibrate" – 6:33 (edited CD, explicit LP), 6:38 (explicit CD, edited LP)
21. "A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete)" – 4:50 (edited CD, explicit LP), 5:11 (explicit CD, edited LP)

• "GhettoMusick," from "Speakerboxxx," contains samples of "Love, Need & Want You" by Patti LaBelle.
• "She Lives In My Lap," from "The Love Below," contains samples of "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" by Geto Boys and "Pistolgrip-Pump" by Volume 10.
• "Pink & Blue," from "The Love Below," contains samples of "Age Ain't Nothing But A Number" by Aaliyah.

• "The Way You Move"
• "Hey Ya!"
• "Roses"
• "Ghetto Musick"
• "Prototype"
• "Bowtie"
• "The Rooster"
• "Church"
• "She Lives In My Lap"

Year	Album	Chart positions
		Billboard 200	Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums	Top Canadian Albums	Top Internet Albums
2004	Speakerboxxx/The Love Below	1	1	4	1

Year	Song	Chart positions
		Billboard Hot 100	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	Hot Rap Singles	Rhythmic Top 40	Top 40 Mainstream	Top 40 Tracks	Canadian Singles Chart	Modern Rock Tracks	Adult Top 40	Latin Pop Airplay	Top 40 Adult Recurrents
2004	"Hey Ya!"	1	9	–	1	1	1	1	16	13	34	6
2004	"Ghettomusick"	-	93	-	-	-	-	–	–	–	–	–
2004	"Prototype"	–	63	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
2004	"Roses"	9	12	5	7	4	7	–	–	–	–	–
2004	"The Way You Move"	1	2	1	4	1	1	–	–	34	–	–

• List of best-selling albums in the United States

• Review listing at Metacritic
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Outkast

Preceded by Grand Champ by DMX	Billboard 200 number-one album October 11, 2003 - October 24, 2003	Succeeded by Chicken-N-Beer by Ludacris
Preceded by Measure of a Man by Clay Aiken	Billboard 200 number-one album November 15, 2003 - November 21, 2003	Succeeded by Shock'n Y'all by Toby Keith
Preceded by The Diary of Alicia Keys by Alicia Keys	Billboard 200 number-one album January 10, 2004 - January 23, 2004	Succeeded by Closer by Josh Groban
Preceded by Closer by Josh Groban	Billboard 200 number-one album January 31, 2004 - February 13, 2004	Succeeded by Kamikaze by Twista

v • d • e Grammy Award for Album of the Year:

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