News: Outkast New Film Is Set For August
After numerous delays, the OutKast film "Idlewild" is now slated to arrive Aug. 25 in U.S. theaters, three days after the release of its LaFace soundtrack. The first single from the album, "Mighty O," leaked online earlier this week. The cut features OutKast's take on Cab Calloway's famous scatting from "Minnie the Moocher."
Andre 3000's verse finds him resisting easy categorization: "The damsels in distress but they a mess / They only like my armor and that I'm a performer/ They read one magazine and want to think they're getting warmer / They're only getting colder."
Big Boi, meanwhile, reasserts his dominance over other rappers with lines like "Intended for anyone filling out this application / An estimate is needed for your underestimation / I'm firing on the spot, go back and check your calculations." Later, he threatens, "I'll hurt you like the president's approval rating by serving you're a** with words, fool."
Recording artists Patti LaBelle, Macy Gray and Fishbone's Angelo Moore also appear in "Idlewild," along with actors Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Ben Vereen and Cicely Tyson, among others.
S, Idlewild' will premiere on US screens on August 28, three days after the album/soundtrack of the same name is released. It will be the group's first release since 2003's massively successful Speakerboxxx/The Love Below double CD.
The first single - ‘Mighty O' - has already been leaked on the Internet. ‘Idlewild' was written and directed by Bryan Barber (who also directed the videos for OutKast's ‘The Whole World', ‘Hey Ya!' and ‘The Way You Move') and is set in a 1930s speakeasy. "It's hip-hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years," Big Boi said. "Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD . It was like, where do we go from here?"
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