Continuing my trend of invoking Outkast’s musical stylings at least once per weekend, I now present to you Big Boi’s isolated vocals from “Bombs Over Baghdad.” (You can check out other isolated vocal tracks unrelated to Outkast over here, but I have to wonder why.)
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Hate to be that guy, but Big Boi doesn’t even come in for 1:15, and while his verse has some great moments (namely the way his cadence plays off the incredible beat–obviously absent here), Andre’s is way more impressive on this song…maybe his best, in terms of rhythmic play, unconventional rhyme, odd imagery and pure Three Stacks weirdness.