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OutKast's Idlewild on track

May 15, 2006 at 01:43:00 PM

Oft-delayed film starring eclectic Atlanta duo will hit theaters August 25, with a soundtrack hitting stores three days earlier.

After numerous delays, the OutKast film Idlewild is now slated to arrive August 25 in theaters, three days after the release of its soundtrack.

Andre 3000, Big Boi in <em>Idlewild</em> Andre 3000, Big Boi in Idlewild

The first single from the LaFace album, "Mighty O," leaked online earlier this week. The cut features OutKast's take on Cab Calloway's famous scatting from "Minnie the Moocher."

Andre 3000's verse finds him resisting easy categorization: "The damsels in distress but they a mess / They only like my armor and that I'm a performer/ They read one magazine and want to think they're getting warmer / They're only getting colder."

Big Boi, meanwhile, reasserts his dominance over other rappers with lines like "Intended for anyone filling out this application / An estimate is needed for your underestimation / I'm firing on the spot, go back and check your calculations."

Written and directed by Bryan Barber, Idlewild is set in the 1930s around the music and business of running a speakeasy. While it will fit the film's context, Big Boi told Billboard.com last year not to expect period music.

"It's hip-hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years," he said. "Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD (OutKast's 2003 album Speakerboxx/The Love Below). It was like, where do we go from here?"

Recording artists Patti LaBelle, Macy Gray, and Fishbone's Angelo Moore also appear in Idlewild, along with actors Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Ben Vereen, and Cicely Tyson, among others.

Story Copyright © 2009 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.

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6 Comments

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je l'ai trouvE tres utile en effet,
Posted 05/23/2009 7:32pm
Est-ce qu tu viens ici souvent?
Posted 05/23/2009 5:17pm
Parle-moi un peu plus de vos sous-vetement.
Posted 05/23/2009 1:10pm
Ou as-tu ete toute ma vie?
Posted 05/22/2009 1:42pm
they have a great cms here
Posted 05/22/2009 1:28am
Mighty O is nice, I have high expectations for this.
Posted 05/16/2006 3:26pm
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