Why Key and Peele's OutKast sketch is that boo boo
Andre gave creative license to black bruh magic in an era when mainstream rap was awash in tragic nihilism and crass commercialism. Y'all still some thugs, though
? Wednesday night's Key & Peele sketch on OutKast was far from "perfect," as Consequence of Sound, and half the damn Internet, proclaimed. Nowhere near it, matter fact. And yeah, I'm mad. embed-1
? I know, I know. It's just COMEDY. And sacred cows be damned, a little OutKast clownin' never hurt nobody. Take Vevo's 2012 parody of the imagined cover shoot for Stankonia, for instance. Now that shit was funny. embed-2
? For the record, I did dig Jordan Peele's portrayal of Big in the comedy duo's attempt to explain why OutKast split. But Keegan-Michael Key made ya boy Dre look like a straight-up Peter Pan pixie. He skipped out the coffee shop carrying a VASE of latte, shawty. Haaaa! I'm sayin, tho. Why can't they let 3 Stacks be great? Or weird? Or retired? Or whatever TF he wanna be?
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? Seriously, folk.
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? Thing is Andre gave creative license to black bruh magic in an era when mainstream rap was awash in tragic nihilism and crass commercialism. Buddy whipped that funk flag out on ’em and he and Big opened up a whole new headspace in hip-hop. Of course, it never would've worked without Big Boi balancing that yin/yang energy, lacing track after track with that chonkyfire and pushing Dre to keep his head in the endgame. And yeah, it is funny to think about just how extreme their energies were in that regard. But in the end, it all blended perfectly.
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? Y'all still some thugs, though.
? Meanwhile, Big and Dre have been hanging hard and frequently spotted around town as of late. If you follow Big on Facebook, you've probably seen him posting recent pics with the duo chilling in spots like the strip club Magic City or the Waffle House. And if you follow 94.5 The Streetz on-air personality Lil Bankhead's Instragram, you may have seen shots of him and Dre hanging in neighborhood spots, like Chit Chat, all over the A. Maybe the flightier half of the original ATLiens is more down-to-earth than you think.
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? So yeah, I'ma let y'all finish but — this comical queering of Andre 3000 as if anything other than the marginal portrayal of black machismo is unacceptable or inauthentic or laughably wack or whatever, yeah, that's that boo boo.
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? And in case you find yourself wondering, What Would Big and Dre Say, gon' and marinate on this for a minute:
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