Speakerboxx/The Love Below

OutKast

2003

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is such a curious concept: splitting up a team that works so well together and having them record two seperate albums. The Love Below has the added narrative concept where Andre 3000 meets a woman, falls in love, eventually breaks up with her because of his realization that she isn’t the one, marries another woman, and loses her too because of his weakness. 

“It was a concept album, completing the whole thought. Being in a group, it’s all about compromising,” he said of the pair’s decision to listen to no one but themselves. “We play a lot off of each other. But that record right there was, ‘OK, this is Big’s train of thought, and this is Dre’s train of thought.’ Two sides to the same coin, but tell it in different ways.” – Big Boi