Atlanta-based rapper
“Check my catalog,” Big Boi said in an alley outside of
Big Boi, who hosted a party for Crown Royal whiskey inside the car dealership, co-produced the "Float On" band's album at his Atlanta studio. Asked if it was his first time producing an album for a rock band, Big Boi, one half of Grammy-winning duo Outkast, looked himself over, sunglasses and all, and responded, "I am a rock band."
How did this unlikely — or likely, according to Big Boi — pairing come to be?
"They called, man," he said. "They wanted to work with me. I guess they saw the work I was doing as a producer. They wanted to come get some of that funk — that Stankonia."
("Stankonia" is the name of Outkast's fourth album, and Big Boi's studio.)
"When they first walked in the studio, we didn't know how it was going to be. We'd only talked on the phone. As soon as we met, we started kicking it like sixth graders," he said. "We jammed, talked, kicked it and cracked jokes. The music sounds phenomenal."
Big Boi told
Why add his rhymes to the rock album?
"They ain't come to Stankonia for nothing," he said.
In addition to Modest Mouse's album, Big Boi, who released his critically-acclaimed solo album "Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty" last year, is working on his follow-up album: "Daddy Fat Saxxx: Soul Funk Crusader."
"Three 'X's,'" Big Boi explained, "because it's nasty."