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At a time when experimentation is taboo in most overground rap, that's all Outkast seem intent on executing. Firstly, this double CD has no cohesive link, other than the fact that it sounds like a pair of solo albums stitched together to demo exactly how Andre's yin works to augment Big Boi's yang. Andre 3000's Love Below disc rates as the more eclectic of the two, given that he's turned in his emcee credentials to become a full-on funk-soul-jazz vocalist who mostly sings about items of love ("Happy Valentine's Day"), carnal lust ("Spread"), and female adoration ("Prototype"). Minus the big band schmaltz of "Love Hater" and cheesy cover jobs ("My Favorite Things"), Andre's disc is sick (meaning great). As is to be expected, the Big Boi disc is less arty, more gangsta and worldly, and features the less-progressive guest raps of ATL crunk purveyors Lil' Jon and The Eastside Boyz ("Last Call") and Jay-Z who rhymes the hook on "Flip Flop Rock". Unlike Big Boi, Andre keeps his collabos to a minimum, once crooning alongside Norah Jones on the cool yet sappy "Take Off Your Cool", and once with Kelis. Boi fulfills his Dungeon Family duty with flying colors by flipping some dirty southern up-tempo raps over electro beats on "GhettoMusick". By the time Cee-Lo sermonizes on "Reset", Speakerboxx and Love Below rate mostly as majestic and inspiring, with the remaining 23 per cent being just plain incredible --Dalton Higgins

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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 24, 2008 Type: User Review Stop reading and BUY THIS ALBUM!

I am a die-hard Outkast fan since I first heard SouthernPlayalistic...and when I heard that they were dropping a double, I had to get it. It's an amazing combination of two distinctively different artists which happen to complement each other....
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 16, 2008 Type: User Review (3.5 stars) Sellout? Maybe. But I like it, whatever it is

I think it's safe to say this is one of the most ambitious projects in hip-hop history. It's a double-album, which has done before, but it's essentially two solo albums: Speakerboxx would be Big Boi's, and The Love Below would be Andre's. I'm sure...
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From: Amazon Posted: May 31, 2008 Type: User Review A masterpiece

I'm a big OutKast fan and they have consistently delivered outstanding album after outstanding album. But they outdid themselves with Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, a collection of truly excellent songs. Without a doubt their best album.
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From: Amazon Posted: Mar 30, 2008 Type: User Review Half a double

I very much enjoyed the Andre Benjamin half of this double album. He has a terrific voice, the tunes are melodious, and the lyrics are listenable. The second album was not my cup of tea. The two styles were so different I wondered why they were...
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From: Amazon Posted: Feb 18, 2008 Type: User Review Interesting!

I bought this for a friend so I really never listened to it myself. But from what I did hear, The Love Below is the better half of the two CD's. I love the fact that Andre can break out of the rap box and make it sound oh so good.
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From: Amazon Posted: Feb 08, 2008 Type: User Review Home run

Well after having reached my 50 fourth bithdate i thought i had no taste for such sound, see here, i was wrong!

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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 31, 2008 Type: User Review Amazing from Andre 3000

I enjoyed this album. Big Boi delivered the rap side of the group, with conscious/philosophical songs like: "Church" and "War" along with others. Yet to me it was blown away when I first hit play one Andre 3000 "The Love Below." He opens the LP...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jan 15, 2008 Type: User Review evolutionary

i like the different feel of each side. it was a new step for outkast. their music keeps changing
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From: Amazon Posted: Oct 26, 2007 Type: User Review Pathetic

After hearing some experimental but stunning production and rhymes on OutKast's previous four LPs, this double album comes as a major disappointment. Andre goes from MC to singer (and not a good one) here while Big Boi maintains his solid but by...
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From: Amazon Posted: Sep 11, 2007 Type: User Review Two albums in one, two good halfs in four

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is less a double album than a pair of solo records from Big Boi and Andre 3000. They so rarely collaborate here that either one participates on each other's material less than the guest appearances by other artists (Big...
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