|  Avg.User Rating:  47 Ratings Co-producer, Actor, Musical Direction/Supervision Biography:Better known by his MC pseudonym, Andre 3000 (a moniker by which he performs musically, as one half of the Dirty South rap act OutKast), André Benjamin first practiced rapping in his teenage years, when the genre was still relatively fresh and young. The then-Atlanta-area teen met Antwan Patton (aka Big Boi), a fellow student at a local high school in the city's East Point; the two impressed each other enormously, via joint participation in rap battles, and officially formed OutKast in 1992. In time, they solicited the attention of Organized Noise Productions -- the very same outfit that made TLC superstars. The duo issued the "Players' Ball" single immediately after graduation in 1994; it shot up to blockbuster sales on the charts. Several records followed, including 1994's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, 1996's ATLiens, 2003's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, and 2006's Idlewild; in the process, OutKast... Full Biography
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