ATLiens

There's nothing quite like when you get old enough to realize, wait a minute, that was actually sad.

Case in point, OutKast, "ATLiens," from start to finish, yo, these are two unhappy guys.

[laughs] OutKast in general, right? Like-

[laughs]

the music choices themselves.

And Atliens, A-T-L-I-E-N-S, the first track that they play from that album is about them feeling like aliens.

They're from Atlanta at the time.

This was like the East Coast, West Coast rap battles.

Uh, and now we get to, uh, th- the possibly the most disturbing part of the show, of the episode for me, but it starts off great.

They're driving around, and they're playing ATLiens in the car.

[laughs]

And uh, a peek behind the curtain for anyone who's listening to this, uh, I was planning on watching the episode, and I think about five minutes before I was gonna watch the episode, I got a text [laughs] from Juliet saying, "Tell me when you're watching the episode."

Yeah.

And that was basically straight ahead Southern rap.

And then we got ATLiens and Aquemini, and ATLiens is like sci-fi s- uh, sci-fi based kind of, uh, spooky sounds and stuff.

ATLiens is great.

I believe it's CeeLo.

But Atliens came out 30 years ago this week.

And any OutKast fans, my God, how old is that? How old are we? It still seems...

ahead of its time.

Go listen to it.

Southern Playalistic sounds ahead of its time.

I start fading after that a little bit, but I do, I think Southern Playalistic and Atliens are foundational to hip-hop.

Yes.

Let's get into a couple more questions from you all Robert Robert are Roberto Arsenal.

So Roberto good to see you brother been a while He said I love this episode called outcast when they had two outcasts always in the episode called Atliens Of course 30-year anniversary release this week and gasoline dreams.

Yeah Atliens.

Yeah um i think it's great you know of course aliens atlanta aliens that kind of thing so i love that kind of situation and i love the way they made it work here in this episode um uh rona says damn this episode is one of a kind dc fans got a sweet present on a sunday night i agree uh ellie negro says oof just reading twitter and the chuds are going full-on woke rants about the of course of course they are how dare you bring up race How dare you bring up race? Oh, so childish.

So childish.

OutKast, ladies and gentlemen.

ATLiens.

I mean, damn.

Like, [laughs] everything about this album-

That is, yes.

And did you know, [upbeat music] on this day in 1996, OutKast dropped ATLiens.

Ooh, this album right here.

Classic.

The joints

...

Wheels of Steel, ATLiens, uh, Elevators.

Uh, what-

Mm-hmm.

And, um, and then, you know, when the second album came, when ATLiens came, man, I was like, that was like, God is present here.

Yeah, that was crazy.

You know what I'm saying? [laughs]