ATLiens

Outkast: Dre, Big Boi (vocals, programming). Additional personnel includes: EJ Tha Witch Doctor, Joi, Whild Peach, Trina, Andrea Martin, Goodie Mob, Cool Breeze, ShaJuanna Edghill (vocals); Tomi Martin, Carlos Glover (acoustic guitar); Craig Love, Martin Terry, Ed Stroud (guitar); Kerren Berz (violin); Skinny Miracles (piano); Chanz (keyboards, organ, piano); Kenny Wright (keyboards); Moog, Preston Crump, James Jay Nicholas, Marq Jefferson (bass); Dee Simmons (drums); Organized Noize Productions (programming); Mr. DJ (scratches); Debra Killings, Dawn, Tracy, Arlynn, Sleepy Brown, Tamara, Peaches (background vocals). Producers: Organized Noize Productions, Outkast. Engineers: Jarvis Blackshear, Derrick Williams, John Frye. OutKast has almost singlehandedly defined the sound of Atlanta rap. Tongue-flippin', rhyme-spittin' and Cadillac-ridin', all with a Southern accent, Big Boi and Dre have proved to be the South's ideal MCs. ATLIENS continues in the same vein as Outkast's 1994 debut, SOUTHERNPLAYALISTICADILLACMUZIK, with producers Organized Noize back to accompany the duo's laid-back flow. Big Boi and Dre proclaim to prove a point with every rhyme, never wasting a line. They like to think of themselves as outcasts from the hip-hop community--aliens, so to speak. Their tracks have an outer-space feeling to them--a feeling that, ironically, has warmed the community right up to them. They're so out, they're in.