Outkast No More

December, 2001

riffs and raps from Dre and Big BoiMusic debates are often characterized by insular, hipper-than-thou rhetoric, but out-kast is a group most people agree on. They get love from strip clubs to martini bars, from Popeye's to Star-bucks, from electro-beat geeks to rap fiends--which makes them innovators. The day we caught up with them, they were doing a sound check for Area One at Atlanta's Lakewood Amphitheater, where they were backed by a nine-piece band."A lot of people don't realize the ef...