Nov
22

What in the World Is Andre 3000 Doing?

Words by Passion of the Weiss Staff. Image via Taco Trey Kerby. Andre 3000 is…. Surfing off the coast of Madagascar while wearing a sarong and Doc Martens. Taking a nap in a hyperbaric chamber while being protected by a pack of miniature Doberman Pinschers. Inventing colors. Climbing an Andean mountain to pick a rare… Continue reading »

Oct
27

The Everlasting “Nothing to Lose” SDTK: Outkast, Camp Lo, Naughty by Nature, et. al

Nothing to Lose is maybe the fourth best soundtrack to a Martin Lawrence vehicle made between House Party and Blue Streak. After all, even when they were mediocre, all rap soundtracks from the 90s look pretty good in hindsight. Hip hop was supposed to have sucked since ’96, but c’mon. For Nothing to Lose, Tommy… Continue reading »

Sep
04

Everyday We Looked Up at the Ceiling, Watching Ceiling Fans Go Around Trying to Catch that Feeling

“Elevators” stays several hundred feet and rising in my mind fifteen summers later, on a sun-scrambled Labor Day weekend. I think it may have been exactly today when I snatched the cassette single at an obviously shuttered Sam Goody in Orange County. My parents had dragged my sister and I on some haute-haunted two-day trek… Continue reading »

Jan
13

Sach O: Outkast – “B.O.B (Stenchman remix)”

A decade after the fact, pop music has finally caught up with Stankonia-era Outkast. From the dance music influence, to the druggy Funkadelic space personas, to the seriously questionable fashion sense, the impact of Dre and Big Boi’s final classic can be felt from LA to LDN and back to Bankhead. The first single and… Continue reading »