We’re never getting another Outkast album, and that’s OK

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. As a dude from the South who grew up on ‘90s-era hip-hop, Outkast has been and will always be one of my favorite rap groups. Sometimes, they’re number one on my list; sometimes, they’re number two, but always right there at the top. They’re the only rap group with two songs that shook me to my core so intensely that I can vividly remember exactly where I was the first time I heard them — “Elevators (Me & U)” and “Skew It On The Bar-B.” The horns on “SpottieOttieDopaliscious” are as beautiful today as they were the first time I heard them at Audrey’s now-closed record shop on the campus of Clark Atlanta University in September 1998.  I love Outkast and that love for Outkast is why I give any and every song and project released by both André 3000 and Big Boi spins. I will listen and if I don’t like them, I typically move on, careful not to be too critical. I wrote a whole review of André 3000’s “New Blue Sun” — his first solo album...