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  Andre 3000's Mother Dead in Tragically Timed Loss

  May 29, 2013 – OutKast rapper André 3000 has lost his mother. Sharon Benjamin-Hodo has died, a rep for the musician and actor confirmed to Billboard.According to Billboard, Benjamin-Hodo launched and ran the Starlight Camp for children from low-income homes. She oversaw the program through the New Morning Light Missionary Baptist Church in Conley, Georgia, where her husband, Robert Hodo, is pastor. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Frank Ocean, Andre 3000, and Big Boi Channel P-Funk

  January 18, 2013 – If you're a rap fan who has ever had a hardrive crash, a laptop stolen, or just wasn't thinking straight and deleted a bunch of mid-to-late-2000s mixtapes because you thought they'd be available to download forever, then the Tumblr Diskography is a godsend. Whoever runs the Tumblr has been uploading entire mixtape discographies of rappers from Gucci Mane to the Cool Kids, with all the wonky tagging removed. …
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  Andre 3000 Clears Up Rumors About 'OutKast Collaboration' (Exclusive)

  January 15, 2013 – As André 3000 knows, "reunions" aren't always what they seem. On January 12, a new remix of Frank Ocean's A3K-guesting "Pink Matter" surfaced, this time featuring a jammed-in verse from OutKast's Big Boi. …
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  Frank Ocean's 'Pink Matter' Remix Wedges in Big Boi Verse for Disjointed OutKast Reunion

  January 12, 2013 – If Frank Ocean's recent run-in with the law meant he's good at being bad and bad at being good, he redeems himself as a Good Samaritan for reuniting OutKast, at last, on a remix of channel ORANGE track "Pink Matter." As previously reported, both Big Boi and Andre 3000 did time in the studio, separately, during the making of Ocean's Grammy-nominated Best Album of 2012, but due to some behind-the-scenes drama that spilled onto Twitter, An …
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  Frank Ocean Will Get His 'Pink Matter' OutKast Reunion

  January 2, 2013 – It's a big week for a Big Boi. Not only has the Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors mastermind dropped the video for his ratchet-ass Atlanta-repping single "In the A," he's announced that he'll be recording vocals for a new version of Frank Ocean's "Pink Matter." The original recording of the song — found on SPIN's Album of the Year, channel ORANGE — features General Patton's former OutKast compatriot André 3000. …
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  Big Boi on Modest Mouse's Apple Bongs and His Killer Bowling Name

  November 26, 2012 – Big Boi's first request as he enters a lounge at the Island Def Jam offices in midtown Manhattan is for "ice water and a ceiling fan." Cups of ice and a rotating floor fan soon appear as the Atlanta rapper takes off his heavy dookie chain and medallion and places it on a table. "One hundred carats worth of diamonds, white and pink stripes," he describes. …
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  10 Records That Paved the Way for Kendrick Lamar's 'good kid, m.A.A.d city'

  November 14, 2012 – <p>The mythos of the creative struggle adds another layer to a pop-music classic: Brian Wilson in the sandbox; the Stones arguing over everything holed up in a chateau; Bowie coked-out in Berlin; Rick Rubin making rap history from his NYU dorm; Dilla, dying in a hospital bed. The story behind Kendrick Lamar's <i>good kid, m.A.A.D. …
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  4 More Things SPIN Learned About Big Boi's 'Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors'

  November 14, 2012 – ATLien Big Boi touched down in the Converse Rubber Tracks studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Tuesday night to showcase selections from his new album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, due out December 11. Before Sir Lucious Left Foot a.k.a. …
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  Big Boi Teams With Kelly Rowland on Slinky 'Mama Told Me'

  October 2, 2012 – Big Boi's Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors is due out on November 13, and already some of what we thought we knew about the album is proving viciously untrue. …
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  Big Boi Claims Andre 3000 Thwarted His Frank Ocean Collabo

  July 10, 2012 – While the entire music-loving world had its collective finger hovering above the mouse button to download a digital copy of Frank Ocean's channel ORANGE last night just before he took the stage on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, there was at least one person feeling a little resentful of the rising singer's moment. …
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