September 29, 1998
La Face
2xLP
Stankonia is purportedly located at the centre of the earth, seven light years below sea level. It's a gas-fuelled utopia, a mecca where all funky things crusade in pilgrimage. Crooked police roam the streets, vapour fumes from sticky herb fumigate junctions, violence is rampant, rave is the wave. Elected officials are dusted, Freddie Jackson's sipping a milkshake in the winter. Chivalry isn't dead, but princes in shining armour need to apologize to their baby's mama's mama. The access point to the earth's crust is ATL, Georgia. It's where Killer Mike made his name, and where the ghost of George W. Bush still looms. It's a disco gospel, a back-alley abortion clinic, a beautiful slum. It's the most fully realized world in the Outkast-extended universe. It's one of the greatest albums of all time.