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You heard me? Thank you for your service (ph). And now they pray for calm 'cause America is nervous. The people up in arms 'cause they're killing us on purpose. Now see the answers burning but that's just superficial on the surface. My sermon is for the children and for the mamas and the daddies that ain't earning. Here you go.īIG BOI, SLEEPY BROWN, KILLER MIKE AND BIG RUBE: (Rapping) Elevated thinking, higher learning, and nah I ain't talking about the cookie that I'm burning. And the first thing we're going to play is 'We The Ones.' And I'm just going to play a little bit, and then I want to hear a bit more about what was on your mind. MARTIN: Let me just play a little bit, and then we'll talk a little bit more. And it was just like organic progression of just brotherhood and the friendship and just the love of music. And when we would come home from the road, we'd go in the studio and just put these ideas down.

And just being on the tour bus, we were like, hey, man, let's just do - why don't we do some new songs, you know, some brand-new songs, just me and you, a whole album? And we were like, why didn't we think of that before? So we started - just started working on it, you know, while we were on the road. And so we've been doing, you know, a gamut of just, you know, all of the hit records and songs that we've recorded. Like, what was the inspiration for it?īIG BOI: Sleepy Brown and I've been - you know, we've been together since the very first Outkast song was released 28 years ago today, 'Player's Ball.' And he's been on tour with me for, like, the past six, seven years. MARTIN: (Laughter) OK, see, that's a problem. I'm sure your efforts are appreciated.īIG BOI: Oh, man, everybody wants - they expect me to cook every week.

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So, yeah, a year and a half, I've turned into a professional chef. And then, you know, I started trying to, you know, experiment with making side dishes like black-eyed peas and yams. And then I moved on to the barbecue shrimp in there. And so my wife bought me an air fryer, and I started grilling lobsters in the air fryer and I perfected it to the perfection of the highest of perfectionists. So I don't eat beef or pork, haven't in over 30 years. I mean, just, you know, had to go inside and just find an inner peace.īIG BOI: Seafood.

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So what was this last year and a half like for you? Did it take you any place kind of different creatively?īIG BOI: Kind of sharpening our craft and spending time with the family and learning how to cook and having Bible study and exercise and things like that. MARTIN: So first of all, how has the last, like, year and a half or so been for you? Because a lot of the artists we've spoken to said that, you know, because of COVID, the isolation, quarantining, having to slow down, you know, cancel tours, things of that sort, a lot of them, it caused them to kind of think some different thoughts. And it's been 27 years since the release of their first album, so he is no newcomer to this, and he is with us now to tell us what he's been up to and what is on his mind. MARTIN: The creators of 'The Way You Move,' Big Boi and Sleepy Brown, have teamed up once again for a new album called 'The Big Sleepover.' Big Boi, of course, is also one half of the rap supergroup Outkast, along with Andre 3000. OUTKAST: (Singing) I love the way you move. And finally today, a duo that created one of the greatest party songs of all time, at least in my humble opinion, is back.

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