2000-10-31
Stankonia
OutKast
By Maeve C.
In March 1998 OutKast bought a studio near Northside Drive in Atlanta that had belonged to Bobby Brown and renamed it Stankonia Studios. Owning the room removed the pressure of a rented clock; sessions began in spring 1999 and ran for about a year, with production by Earthtone III and Organized Noize.
The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and later won Best Rap Album at the 44th Grammy Awards. “B.O.B.” was released first, “Ms. Jackson” gave the duo their first Billboard Hot 100 number one, and “So Fresh, So Clean” followed, with interludes stitched between songs such as “Gasoline Dreams” and “Humble Mumble”.
Sources
Rights-holder metadata (℗ 2000 Arista Records LLC): release date October 31, 2000; the German storefront shows the same date.Independent corroboration: released on October 31, 2000, by LaFace and Arista; studio bought March 1998 from Bobby Brown; sessions from spring 1999 for about a year; Earthtone III and Organized Noize; singles; No. 2 debut; Grammy Best Rap Album.
MusicBrainz US LaFace CD dated 2000-10-31 (US and South African releases 31 October; GB, AU, JP later). One German CD (release 296f8a54-eff7-3c6a-9857-164c05479c09) is dated 2000-10-23 with no source beyond a US Amazon ASIN; treated as uncorroborated because the rights-holder date (same in the German storefront), Wikipedia and every other dated issue give 31 October.