Outkast rapper Big Boi is mourning his uncle, Remoin Patton Sr., who was fatally shot during a June 16 road-rage incident in Atlanta. Two suspects have been arrested and charged with murder. Big Boi ...

The highs of Outkast's Coachella performance were live-music apexes that few can reach, but there were missteps, edges that hopefully will be sanded over time, as the pair's summer-festival ...

Incredibly, it's been 18 years since we got a new Outkast album, but their influence remains as central to hip hop as ever. Here, then, is every Outkast LP so far, ranked from worst to best.

Stankonia is OutKast’s masterpiece — brainy, socially aware, flexible funk akin to Sly and the Family Stone’s 1971 opus, There’s a Riot Going On.

That year, Outkast released its sprawling double album “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below,” which would go on to sell more than 10 million copies and spawn two Hot 100 No. 1 singles. Incredibly, it ...

OutKast artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music ...

Why OutKast’s ‘Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik’ album is crucial Black history Sensational debut took Southern music scene by storm in 1994, while serving as an archive of Atlanta’s past ...

When OutKast won a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2004, nearly the whole world seemed to think that the dynamic Atlanta duo was the most deserving. Before Carlos Santana and Faith Hill read the ...

Outkast's new album is more than a record. It's a trip, a journey, a transformation, an experience. Are you ready? Finally the sun came up. Outside the morning has a dewy cling that only the South ...

OutKast sold 10m copies of their last album, 2003's sprawling double feature Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. The latter half was Andre's funk/R&B concept album about love and shagging; the former ...

OutKast’s overtorqued physical impact, the sense that their records are more there than anyone else’s, comes in large part from Big Boi. The essence of Southern rap, the bounce, is all there ...

Outkast at Coachella: Rap Duo Returns With Important, Imperfect Performance The performance had missteps, but the show did include some of the best hip-hop songs ever recorded, played live from a ...