Tag: OutKast

Takeaways and observations from Ravens 34-20 win over Bengals in Week 11

We’re looking at takeaways and observations from the Baltimore Ravens 34-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Thursday night

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson accounted for 318+ yards and two touchdowns as the Ravens offense exploded on the ground and through the air for over 400+ total yards, and Todd Monken’s best game as offensive coordinator.

Baltimore improved to 8-3 on the season and will have ten days of rest before traveling to Los Angeles to play Justin Herbert and the Chargers after a 34-20 win over the Bengals at M&T Bank Stadium.

Star tight end Mark Andrews suffered a lower leg injury and is expected to miss the rest of the season.

With the team off for the next ten days, here’s an instant analysis of the Ravens’ huge home win.

Top photos from Ravens 34-20 win over the Bengals in Week 11

We’re looking at the top photos from the Baltmore Ravens 34-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Amazon’s Thursday Night Football in Week 11

The Baltimore Ravens improved to 8-3 on the season and will have ten days of rest before traveling to Los Angeles to play Justin Herbert and the Chargers after a 34-20 win over the Bengals at M&T Bank Stadium.

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson accounted for 318+ yards and two touchdowns as the Ravens offense exploded on the ground and through the air for over 400+ total yards, and Todd Monken’s best game as offensive coordinator.

Baltimore was able to reverse the time of possession, maintaining the football for nine more minutes while going 3-4 in the red zone.

With the team off for the next ten days, here’s an instant analysis of the Ravens’ huge home win.
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Instant analysis of Ravens 34-20 win over the Bengals in Week 11

We’re looking at the instant analysis of the Baltimore Ravens 34-20 win over the Cincinnati Bengals in Week 11

The Baltimore Ravens improved to 8-3 on the season and will have ten days of rest before traveling to Los Angeles to play Justin Herbert and the Chargers after a 34-20 win over the Bengals at M&T Bank Stadium.

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson accounted for 318+ yards and two touchdowns as the Ravens offense exploded on the ground and through the air for over 400+ total yards, and Todd Monken’s best game as offensive coordinator.

Baltimore was able to reverse the time of possession, maintaining the football for nine more minutes while going 3-4 in the red zone.

With the team off for the next ten days, here’s an instant analysis of the Ravens’ huge home win.

Takeaways and highlights from first half as Ravens hold a 21-10 lead over Bengals

We’re looking at key takeaways and highlights from Amazon Prime Thursday night matchup between the Baltimore Ravens and Cincinnati Bengals

Lamar Jackson was 12-of-19 for 186 yards and two touchdowns in the first half, but the Ravens rushed for only 30 yards, while the Bengals had 55, as Baltimore led 21-10.

Pro Bowl tight end Mark Andrews logged two catches for 23 yards before exiting with what looked like a high ankle sprain.

For Cincinnati, star quarterback Joe Burrow exited the game with a wrist and hand injury, and the Bengals will be forced to roll with former Washington Huskies quarterback Jake Browning in the second half.

With the Big Boi performance ending and the second half set to begin, here are takeaways and highlights from the first half.

André 3000’s debut solo album has no raps or lyrics — just digital flutes, instrumental jazz and vibes

This is the first time he has released an album in 17 years.

OutKast star André 3000 announced that he will release his debut solo album, New Blue Sun, on November 17.

The musician composed one-half of perhaps the most successful rap duo of all time with OutKast and, here at For The Win, he was recently named one of the best rappers to ever live.

But once the duo decided to split in 2007, he didn’t go on to have a prolific solo career like Big Boi, his longtime OutKast partner. Instead, he offered occasional guest features, even winning a Grammy award for his appearance on “Come Home” with Anderson. Paak in 2020.

Now 17 years after releasing his final album with OutKast, André 3000 announced that he will finally release his first solo LP. It is not, however, what many fans were potentially expecting (via NPR):

“One thing it is not, however, is a rap record: No bars, no beats, no sub-bass. André doesn’t sing on this joint, either. What he does do is play flute, and plenty of it — contrabass flute, Mayan flutes, bamboo flutes — along with other digital wind instruments.”

It’s not particularly shocking to learn that André 3000 is ditching the microphone for the woodwind instrument considering how often fans have spotted him playing the flute in public.

He even contributed four songs on the flute to the soundtrack for the Oscar-winning film Everything Everywhere All At Once.

His upcoming album, however, is far more ambitious. New Blue Sun is an 87-minute-long, experimental project co-produced by percussionist Carlos Niño.

Song titles on the eight-track record include “I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” and “Dreams Once Buried Beneath The Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens” so that may give you a sense of the vibe.

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The Atlanta Braves’ OutKast Night had some outrageously cool moments you need to see

The Atlanta Braves’ OutKast night looked like the coolest thing ever.

The Atlanta Braves had one of the coolest themed nights you could possibly imagine on Thursday as the franchise celebrated the city’s legendary rap duo OutKast.

The team’s OutKast Night celebrated the music group with an outrageously cool bobblehead set featuring Andre 3000 and Big Boi appropriately riding in a cadillac while sporting Braves gear.

The themed night drew out a massive crowd of ATLiens who wanted to show respect for the iconic duo’s legacy while cheering on the Braves against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Atlanta won that game, 8-5, further cementing this as a really awesome night for the city. You can’t lose on OutKast Night! You just can’t!

Here are some of our favorite moments from this fantastic Atlanta event.

The Braves’ Outkast bobblehead giveaway is so fresh and so clean

This bobblehead is cooler than Freddie Jackson sipping a milkshake in a snowstorm.

Sometimes, sports teams need gimmicks and giveaways to pack the stands.

Like the time Florida State gave away free bacon to students before a men’s basketball contest, or the time the Buffalo Bills handed out tickets to anyone who would help shovel snow ahead of a game. Oftentimes, teams turn to bobbleheads as a way to attract fans too. LeBron James never played at the University of Akron, but the Zips put him on a bobblehead anyway.

This brings us to the Atlanta Braves, who revealed a bobblehead on Tuesday that is cooler than a polar bear’s toenails and features two dope boyz in a Cadillac.

That’s right. Outkast – the iconic and influential hip-hop duo from Atlanta – are getting their own bobblehead. It features Big Boi and Andre 3000 – decked out in Braves gear, of course – taking a funky ride in what seems to be a red Cadillac.

The gray jersey Three Stacks is wearing looks pretty similar to the one he wore in the group’s first music video, “Player’s Ball,” released in 1994. And Big Boi’s white retro jersey looks like the one he wore in the video for “Rosa Parks.” The only thing missing is a street sign for the corner of Headland and Delowe.

It’s a timely promotion from the Braves, considering this year marks the 20th anniversary of Outkast’s awesome double-album “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.” It was the first true hip-hop record to win Album of the Year at the Grammys (yes, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” won in 1999, but a lot of folks consider that to be an R&B record).

Outkast is celebrating another anniversary this year too, as it’s been 25 years since the release of their third studio album, “Aquemini,” where the duo reminded us that, whether you’re an old school player or a new school fool, Outkast’ll have you jumping like kangaroos.

Go get this bobblehead, place it on your speaker, fire up “Stankonia” and watch it wobble.

Oh, and the Braves are playing the Phillies that night.

When will Outkast apologize a trillion times to Ms. Jackson? One Redditor attempts the math

How long will it take? Forever, forever, ever, forever, ever?

Math is a beautiful, infuriating thing—especially for a sports and pop culture blog—but there are just some times when we have to give in, break out the TI-89 calculator we’ve kept since high school and crunch some numbers.

One post on Reddit’s r/Music board late Thursday night immediately sent us scrambling to do just that. You see, while the rest of the world was busy watching Duke keep Coach K’s last dance alive a bit longer, Redditor u/randomvegasposts was pondering one of life’s great mysteries:

How long will it take OutKast to actually apologize to Ms. Jackson a trillion times?

Got the song stuck in your head yet? Good. Now let’s dig into the question.

Released in October 2000, André 3000’s partial ode to Erykah Badu (and her mother) apologizes to Ms. Jackson 20 times in the lyrics. As u/randomvegasposts noted, the song would have to be played 50 billion times in order to reach one trillion apologies.

According to the post, u/randomvegasposts counts 621 million plays on Spotify, which accounts for 31 percent of all streams on the current market. That leads to an estimated 1.863 billion plays. Adding in YouTube streams and record sales from “Stankonia”, u/randomvegasposts brings the estimated total up to 45.9 billion apologies.

But it gets more complicated because the internet in the early aughts was anything but simple.

With file sharing apps like Napster, LimeWire, Kazaa, Morpheus and tons of others at their peak, it’s impossible to tell how many times Ms. Jackson was pirated and played. Having grown up during that era, I can confidently say we can only underestimate this number.

So let’s consider this a different way. If we know it takes 50 billion plays to reach a trillion apologies, and the song itself—at normal speed—is four minutes and 30 seconds long, we would need to play Ms. Jackson on a continuous loop for 427,798.323 YEARS in order to fulfill André 3000’s promise.

Of course, Redditors have a few other ways of complicating this question. Let’s say you’re singing along with the song, do those apologies count as well? Or is it only André 3000’s vocalized apologies that matter here?

If André 3000 is singing in past tense, does that mean he has already hit a trillion apologies?

Does recording an apology and playing it back over and over count as multiple apologies? Or is André 3000 still stuck at the original 20 apologies in the lyrics when he recorded his part? And if OutKast had to record multiple takes in the studio, do those apologies count or are they unofficial?

The mind boggles. More specifically, the minds of all the sportswriters in our Slack Teams channel boggles. We were not built to deal with numbers these large.

The only obvious answer here is that it’ll take forever. Forever, ever.

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Big Boi equates performing at Braves’ World Series parade to winning Grammy with Outkast

After the Atlanta Braves won the World Series this past season, they called on legendary rapper Big Boi to perform at their celebration.

After the Atlanta Braves won the World Series this past season, they called on legendary rapper Big Boi to perform at their celebration.

Big Boi, who rose to fame as one half of the music duo Outkast, has had an illustrious career. Alongside Andre 3000, he released six studio albums and he has had an impressive and prolific solo career as well.

During a recent appearance on the fashion podcast Throwing Fits, Big Boi was asked to reflect on how his performance after the World Series stacked up in comparison to other career accomplishments.

“This is up there with winning Album of the Year, the Grammy, and performing at the Super Bowl. It’s the same thing. It’s for the city. The last time we won the World Series is when we first started [Outkast] … Now, on the heels of coming out with this Big Boi, Sleepy Brown album, it’s a great way to kick it off.”

Big Boi added that the experience of celebrating alongside so many people from his town made his performance an especially surreal experience:

“It was great. It was great, man. The whole city was out. It was a million people out in the streets. The whole city was lined with Atlanta’s finest. There was positive energy on a thousand.”

Below, you can watch some video of Big Boi’s performance after the World Series parade:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CV7UN5vLlCF/

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