{"id":10658,"date":"2026-05-01T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-red-velvet-by-outkast\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:30:00","slug":"deep-cut-friday-red-velvet-by-outkast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/deep-cut-friday-red-velvet-by-outkast\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Cut Friday: \u2018Red Velvet\u2019 by Outkast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spinmagazine.com\/files\/2026\/03\/GettyImages-1683264277.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"816\" alt=\"Big Boi and Andre 3000 of Outkast in November 2002, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Credit: Gregory Bojorquez\/Getty Images)\"><figcaption>Big Boi and Andre 3000 of Outkast in November 2002, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Credit: Gregory Bojorquez\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Outkast\u2019s <em>Stankonia<\/em> is a very popular record, certified platinum five times since its 2000 release. But it\u2019s also a very long, 73-minute album stuffed full of different styles and genre experiments, and all the hits are in the first half. So I don\u2019t think some of the later songs on <em>Stankonia<\/em> get enough attention, particularly the 18th track, \u201cRed Velvet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/05\/kacey-musgraves-middle-of-nowhere-2\/\">No Man, (Mostly) No Problem: Kacey Musgraves Roams Free<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/05\/american-football-lp4-review\/\">Older, Sadder, Better: American Football Leans In On \u2018LP4\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinmagazine.com\/2026\/05\/duran-duran-is-free-to-love\/\">Duran Duran is \u2018Free to Love\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"jxfgolaa7BE\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Like most of <em>Stankonia<\/em>, \u201cRed Velvet\u201d was produced by Earthtone III, the production team that both members of Outkast formed with David \u201cMr. DJ\u201d Sheats. It was, alongside \u201cMs. Jackson,\u201d one of the first songs that Andr\u00e9 3000 played guitar on, and he delivers the second verse of \u201cRed Velvet\u201d in a cartoonishly pitched-up and distorted voice. But it\u2019s a dark track about the dangers of flaunting jewelry and nice cars in front of the wrong people. The drums shift into cut time for the chorus as the threats become more pointed and urgent: \u201cThey know where you live, and they see what you drive \/ And they say they gonna put one in your helmet.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"b30J9AfwwmA\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Big Boi has long been an outspoken fan of Kate Bush, and he gave a speech inducting the British art rock icon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. And the one time that Outkast has sampled Bush is on \u201cRed Velvet,\u201d which opens with the sound of Alan Skidmore\u2019s titular sax from her 1978 track \u201cThe Saxophone Song.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-three-more-essential-outkast-deep-cuts\"><strong>Three more essential Outkast deep cuts:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-myintrotoletuknow\"><strong>\u201cMyintrotoletuknow\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>DJ Premier sampled Andr\u00e9\u2019s verse from \u201cMyintrotoletuknow\u201d for Jay-Z\u2019s 1997 track \u201cRap Game \/ Crack Game.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-spottieottiedopaliscious\"><strong>\u201cSpottieOttieDopaliscious\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cSpottieOttieDopaliscious\u201d from 1998\u2019s <em>Aquemini<\/em> is the most unlikely crowd-pleaser in the Outkast catalog, seven minutes of spoken word and a vamping horn section that\u2019s consistently one of the group\u2019s top streaming tracks.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-life-in-the-day-of-benjamin-andre-incomplete\"><strong>\u201cA Life in the Day of Benjamin Andr\u00e9 (Incomplete)\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Andr\u00e9 3000 barely raps on 2003\u2019s <em>Speakerboxxx\/The Love Below<\/em>, but he closes out the double album with the kind of long and rambling yet compelling stream-of-consciousness verse that\u2019s become a signature of his collaborative work since Outkast stopped making albums.<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/spinmagazine.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Boi and Andre 3000 of Outkast in November 2002, in Atlanta, Georgia. 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