Big Boi

For more on Big Boi, go to lasvegassun.com/ae. Big Boi promises his solo album is going to drop soon. Really. The Atlanta rapper, real name Antwan Patton, talked to the Sun before taking to the stage at LAX on Saturday night and assured us the record would be out in December or early January. Earlier this year, he promised it would be out in June or July. Big Boi — half of the Grammy-winning duo Outkast — gave fans an online taste of the record last week by leaking the track ÒFor Your Sorrows,Ó featuring George Clinton and Too Short. ÒGood things come to ... Read Full Story

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Big Boi is bouncing on the sidewalk. He is pumped. The 34-year-old Atlanta rapper and half of the duo OutKast, has for the first time come to South by Southwest, the annual music conference and festival. In an interview on a downtown Austin street, he basks in the sun, enjoys a smoke and occasionally stops traffic as fans jump out of their cars for handshake or a cell phone photo. At SXSW, the nearly 2,000 music acts are everywhere. While the many indie bands walk among the throngs, rappers are a more uncommon sight. Big Boi (real name: Antwan Patton) makes no distinction among ... Read Full Story

OUTKAST rapper BIG BOI is to front a new Coca-Cola advertising campaign in a bid to expand the brand’s reach into the African-American demographic. The Way You Move hitmaker, real name Antwan André Patton , was announced as the new spokesmodel for the drinks firm’s Full Throttle Fury Energy Drink on Tuesday (30Sep08). And according to the energy drink’s senior brand manager Rafael Acevedo, it was Big Boi’s "drive to excel" which made him perfect for the brand relaunch of Coca-Cola’s Full Throttle Fury promotion, according to AllHipHop.com. Acevedo says, "He truly embodies the Full Throttle mindset of ‘Go Full Throttle or Go Home’. ... Read Full Story

Remember OutKast? You know, the Atlanta group that used to be the biggest name in experimental hip-hop, then went on to release solo albums under the band’s name ( Speakerboxx/The Love Below ) and star in a dud of a film called Idlewild ( which I actually thought was pretty good), and then all of a sudden disappeared from the face of the planet? If that doesn’t help, they also had a couple of songs that you might remember; one talked about roses smelling like poo and the other talked about shaking polaroids. Anyway, now the return of at least one-half of OutKast (the ... Read Full Story