and Wu-Tang Clan, with The Fugees and Jay-Z later also enjoying high-profile commercial hits. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Ice Cube and 2Pac wrested the national spotlight away from New York City, only to have the Big Apple claw its way back via major crossover success for artists like The Notorious B.I.G. Why 1998 Was the Greatest Year of My Hip-Hop Lifetimeīy 1998, the South was beginning to leapfrog the West Coast as hip-hop’s second most important hub. And Aquemini, the album that seemed to be confirmation of everything, was OutKast’s masterpiece. Hip-hop’s audience had exploded between 19 - years after Andre (not yet 3000), infamously declared “The South got something to say” as the duo was booed at the 1995 Source Awards - and hip-hop’s “third coast” had bum-rushed the game and was reshaping the rap landscape. The follow-up, the even more successful ATLiens, dropped in 1996, and pushed beyond the youthful wannabe-pimp image forged on their debut, as ‘Kast got spacier and more cerebral, over a backdrop as lush as it was soulful.īut there was a reason why Aquemini resonated as deeply and widely as it did. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, released in ‘94, was a critically acclaimed, Platinum-selling debut that established the duo as formidable rhymers with a uniquely southern approach - the sound of legendary production trio Organized Noize’s velvety productions and the perspective of the two fresh-out-of-high-school MCs forged a template for Atlanta’s hip-hop identity. OutKas?t had been hitting home runs for four years when they dropped their critically-acclaimed third album Aquemini in late September of 1998.
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