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MINT, UNPLAYED COPY OF ATLIENS BY OUTKAST - VMP EDITION.
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Exclusive Features ColorNeon Green & Blue GalaxyExtrasListening Notes By Lawrence BurneyFoil StampedYesMastering EngineerBarry GrintMastering StudioAlchemy Mastering At AIRPressing LocationGZ VinylRemastering DetailsHalf-Speed Mastered By Barry Grint, Alchemy Mastering Other Features ExclusiveVMP ExclusiveJacket StyleDirect-To-BoardJacket TypeWidespineLabelSonyRelease TypeReissue

OutKast’s ATLiens In August, members of VMP Hip-Hop will receive a 25th-anniversary edition of OutKast’s ATLiens on Neon Green & Blue Galaxy vinyl. The album, OutKast’s second, features fan favorites like “Two Dope Boys” and “Elevators,” is VMP’s third release featuring the Atlanta duo, marking two firsts in VMP history; ATLiens marks the first time an artist has had two albums in the same subscription track — we featured OutKast’s debut, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik in 2019 in our Hip-Hop subscription — and the first time we’ve featured three albums by the same artist in any of our subscriptions (we also featured OutKast’s 2000 album, Stankonia, in VMP Essentials in 2020). According to VMP Classics & Country Director Andrew Winistorfer, this was not a decision the Music team took lightly.
“We’ve had an unofficial policy — that many of our members are aware of — that we won’t do the same artist twice in any single subscription track since we launched Classics in 2017,” Winistorfer said. “But, specifically in the case of OutKast, they have a peerless catalog, and their label and the group has been very proud of the reissues we’ve done with them, and they approached us for this ATLiens reissue since it turns 25 this year. And when there’s an album this classic, this incredible, sticking to this unofficial policy seemed crazy to us. We don’t have any plans to repeat artists in Essentials, but in our other Tracks, we’re definitely open to doing the same artist more than once.”
VMP’s edition of ATLiens will come with new Listening Notes from Lawrence Burney, who wrote this in the booklet about the album following up André and Big’s historic win at the Source Awards:
“Their sophomore album, ATLiens, better foreshadowed the course that Dré and Big would go on to take. It felt more true-to-character for both artists — more intimate than their Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik approach of planting their Atlanta flags into the hip-hop soil. On ATLiens’ first song, “Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac),” André describes someone trying to challenge him to a rap battle, spitting cliché bars and trying their hardest to throw insults his way to no avail. Maybe it was his musical retort to what happened at The Garden a year earlier. But to that provocation, his answer not only establishes that freestyle battling wasn’t his approach to the form, but also underscores his solitary nature, which has become his most admirable quality in recent years. He raps, ‘Let me explain “only child” style so you don’t dis’ / I grew up to myself not ’round no park bench / Just a nigga bustin’ flows in apartments.’”



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