The album helped the group earn more recognition among East Coast hip hop fans in the East and West coasts. ATLiens further solidified OutKast as the flagship representatives of the 1st generation Dungeon Family and the Southern hip hop movement. The single 'Elevators (Me & You)' reached number 12 and spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Billboard 200 chart and sold nearly 350,000 copies in its first two weeks of release. The album would climb to number three on Billboard's top R&B/Hip Hop chart. Critics praised the group's maturing musical style on the record, which debuted at number two on the U.S. Their tracks have an outer-space feeling to them- a feeling that, ironically, has warmed the community right up to them.
On ATLiens, André 3000 and Big Boi abandoned the 'hard-partying playa characters' of their debut album in favor of more spacey, futuristic personas, and produced many of the songs on their own for the first time. The album exhibited a notably more laid-back, spacey production sound, taking influence from dub and reggae. The double platinum album, ATLiens, was released on August 27, 1996. 1995–1999: Breakthrough with ATLiens and Aquemini That was the first time when people began to take Southern rap seriously.' In the same year, the group contributed 'Benz or a Beamer' to the popular New Jersey Drive soundtrack. But it's like this: the South got something to say, that's all I got to say.' As eloquently stated by rapper T.I., 'Outkast, period. Within the mess that was the East Coast - West Coast feud, André came up on stage followed by boos from the crowd and said, 'But it's like this though, I'm tired of them closed minded folks, it's like we gotta demo tape but don't nobody want to hear it. OutKast won Best New Rap Group at the Source Awards in 1995. Follow-up singles included the title track and 'Git Up Git Out', a politically charged collaboration with Goodie Mob that was later sampled by Macy Gray for her 1999 hit 'Do Something.' On this early material, both André and Big Boi contrast lyrical content reflecting the lifestyles of pimps and gangsters with politically conscious material commenting on the status of African Americans in the South. Every track on Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik was produced by Organized Noize and featured other members of the Dungeon Family. This initial effort is credited with laying the foundation for southern hip hop and is considered a classic by many. Their debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, was issued on April 26, 1994.
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