25 things you don’t know about Big Boi
20 Aug
1. Kate Bush and Bob Marley are tied for my favorite artist.
2. I love to play myself on Def Jam’s Icon video game.
3. Jane Fonda is a good friend.
4. I love the cheesy bread at Red Lobster.
5. I have three kids: my sons, Cross, 9, and Bamboo, 10, and my daughter, Jordan, 15.
6. I have a dog kennel, Pitfall Kennels.
7. I have a room in my house called the Boom Boom Room. It’s where all the fun happens.
8. My family loves dancing to “Pants on the Ground.”
9. Martha Stewart taught me to cook fried lobster tail.
10. I have a lot of security cameras, so don’t try nothin’!
11. I named my dog Halle Berry; she’s got a cute face.
12. When my family bowls, we call ourselves the Water Buffaloes like on The Flintstones.
13. My pet shark is named after blues singer Billy Ocean.
14. One of my favorite movies is Iron Man.
15. I like taking my kids to their football games.
16. I have multiple rap personalities.
17. I don’t eat beef or pork.
18. I have more than 400 pairs of sneakers.
19. OutKast got signed when we were age 16.
20. I love to play Eric Clapton’s “Cocaine” on the Atlanta freeway on a Sunday afternoon.
21. I always start working on albums on Martin Luther King Day. It’s a good luck charm.
22. My favorite color is purple. It’s what real playas wear.
23. I’ve done ballet — but not with the slippers.
24. Andre 3000 and I were rival MCs in school. <— False.
25. Queen Latifah gave art to my charity, Big Kidz Foundation.
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“2. I love to play myself on Def Jam’s Icon video game.”
Hehe :p
Good to know info….Me being a true fan,I already knew some of these facts!!!!
man!! i must recognize that outkast is one of the best Hip hop groups ever, I wante dyou to notice that you guys have a lot of fans in Mexico city!! please give a chance for latin people to hear you live!!! and BTW you are the true KING of the south!! nobody gets it like you do “you gotta hit the source, you need ya other half-a-mike because that southernplayalisticadillacmusik was a classic, well, yoou have at least won other 5!!! BIG LOVE
I remember some rap battles in the red wing bathroom at DeRenne Middle School.
I knew most of these also! We love you here in St Louis & are eager for a show here!
number 16. awesome
maybe u should try all of ur different way to rap for ur next album lol. it is serious.
I am impressed !!!!!!!!!!!
BIG BOI FOREVER !!!!!!!!!!! ur AWEOME!!!!!!!!
LOVE UR SONGS
On a related note, during the encore at the Scissor Sisters show in Atlanta on Saturday, Ana Matronic included the line “everytime you crawl out of that [lean-to something?] looking like the unholy union of Kate Bush after a weekend Outkast, I say baby, you got it going on, you is gorgeous” in her Filthy/Gorgeous monologue. Good times.
i am no longer living in my beautiful atlanta, but reading your blog makes me remember what home is like. BUT i am MADD jealous that you get to drive an atl freeway on a sunday. i miss 285, even the traffic jams.
thank you so very much for making the music that keeps me going, sir.
all the loveliest,
k