Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Studio album by Outkast
Released	September 23, 2003
Recorded	2002–2003
Genre	Southern hip hop funk pop jazz-funk avant-soul progressive rap
Length	134:49
Label	Arista
Producer	André 3000 (also exec.) Big Boi (also exec.) L.A. Reid (exec.) Carl Mo Mr. DJ Cutmaster Swiff Dojo5
Outkast chronology
Big Boi and Dre Present... Outkast (2001) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003) Idlewild (2006)
Singles from Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
"GhettoMusick" Released: July 15, 2003[1] "Hey Ya!" Released: August 25, 2003[2] "The Way You Move" Released: August 25, 2003[2] "Roses" Released: March 1, 2004[3] "Prototype" Released: September 28, 2004[4]

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the fifth studio album by the American hip hop duo Outkast, released on September 23, 2003 by Arista Records. Issued as a double album, its length of over two hours is spread across two solo albums from both of the group's members. Big Boi's Speakerboxxx is a Southern hip hop album with progressive qualities and influence from the Parliament-Funkadelic sound; André 3000's The Love Below largely departs from hip hop in favor of pop, funk, electro, psychedelia, and jazz styles while drawing inspiration from artists such as Prince and D'Angelo.^[5]

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was supported with the hit singles "Hey Ya!" and "The Way You Move", which both reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and the Top-10 hit "Roses". The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with sales of 510,000 copies in its first week. It eventually amassed a total of seven non-consecutive weeks at the top of the chart and 24 weeks in the Top 10. It has been certified Diamond and 13x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) (each disc in the double album counted as a separate unit for certification). As of May 2024, it has sold 6.5 million units in the United States.^[6]

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below received widespread acclaim from music critics, who praised the consistency of Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and the eclectic musical style of André 3000's The Love Below. It topped The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll, garnered the most total votes for any number-one album in the history of the poll, and won Album of the Year and Best Rap Album at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards, while "Hey Ya!" won Best Urban/Alternative Performance. The album has been acclaimed as one of the greatest albums of the 2000s and was ranked 290th in Rolling Stone's 2020 edition of its "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.