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The songвЂ™s title refers to OutKastвЂ™s elevation to a higher level, while its lyrics are about everyone coming up together equally. The вЂњ Elevators (Me & You)вЂќ single artwork kept things sci-fi with a fluorescent green alien who cranes its head underneath OutKastвЂ™s name. WHEN THEY LEDВ A POST-APOCALYPTIC ESCAPE TO THE PYRAMIDS In the video for the albumвЂ™s вЂњ Elevators Me & YouвЂќ, the clipвЂ™s lead can be seen reading the comic book as the video brings a section of it to life. Set in Atlantis, a city in outer space, the comic sees OutKast defend вЂpositive musicвЂ™ against an evil musical force called Nosamulli. Warfield, and illustrated by Vince Robinson. There was also a 24-page comic pullout, designed by OutKast and D.L. The artwork was designed by Frank Gomez, a DC Comics artist whoвЂ™d later work for Marvel Animation, and centres Big Boi and AndrГ© 3000 as space cadet superheroes, who stand nonchalantly as monsters attempt to claw at them from every angle. When OutKast first presented the name ATLiensВ to LaFace Records, the company thought the title sounded more like a comic book than an album вЂ“ and so the inspiration for the albumвЂ™s extraterrestrial, mystic blue cover and inside booklet was born. You just gotta find yourself, and be true to yourself.вЂќ WHEN ANDRГ‰ AND BIG BOI BECAME COSMICВ COMIC BOOK STARSД«eyond ATLiensвЂ™ sound and lyrics, the planetary imagination comes to life in its album artwork and accompanying comic book. We just trying to let everybody know there's a place for everybody in this world. As he told The SourceвЂ™s Miles Marshall Lewis that same year: вЂњBeing an alien is just being yourself when people don't understand you. вЂњThe вЂaliensвЂ™ for our status in the hip hop game.вЂќ The idea of feeling alien extended beyond hip hop, though. вЂњThe вЂATLвЂ™ for Atlanta,вЂќ 3000 told the Los Angeles TimesВ in 1996.

This feeling of geographical fragmentation is reflected in ATLiensвЂ™ cosmic portmanteau title. (Extraterrestrial)вЂќ, which echoes out: вЂњOut of this worldвЂ¦ Are you alien?вЂќВ Meanwhile, вЂњ MillenniumвЂќ compares the вЂњ Planets and stars, Earth, Jupiter, MarsвЂќ to вЂњ Hoes, clothes, carsвЂќ.Д¬oming from Atlanta, in the south, OutKast were immediately outsiders to hip hopвЂ™s established East-West coast axis. вЂњ You May DieвЂќ, the albumвЂ™s short introductory track, features a Portuguese poem spoken over a sample that sounds like a UFO pinging through the sky the second track, вЂњ Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)вЂќ, kicks off the album proper with a simple message: вЂњGreetings, earthlings.вЂќВ Then thereвЂ™s the chorus of the albumвЂ™s 13th track, вЂњ E.T. In both its sound and its lyrical content, OutKastвЂ™s 1996 album ATLiensВ illustrated the duoвЂ™s cosmic compulsions. WHEN OUTKAST BECAMEВ EXTRATERRESTRIALS FROM ATLANTA OutKast used the planets, aliens, stars, and mythical cosmic narratives to comment on their status in the early 1990s hip hop world, the progression of black rights in AmericaвЂ™s south, societyвЂ™s preconceived ideas of black masculinity, and racial unity and solidarity.ДЇollowing High LifeвЂ™s recent UK release, we traced OutKastвЂ™s obsession with space and how their cosmic creations fostered a new voice for Afrofuturism in hip hop.

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These artists used the cosmos to express themselves free from the social and political gravity of Earth. ItвЂ™s an obsession that flows through OutKastвЂ™s entire career, placing them in the lineage of AfrofuturistВ musical predecessors like Sun Ra and Parliament-Funkadelic. The musicianвЂ™s own obsession with the stars dates back to his childhood, when he had a cosmic poster on his bedroom wall depicting Plutonia, a futuristic city. ItвЂ™s no wonder Denis turned to Benjamin to be the space odysseyвЂ™s leading black voice. вЂњSee?вЂќ says Tcherny in one of the filmвЂ™s most powerful moments, вЂњeven in outer space, the black ones are the first to die.вЂќ Different aspects of society are interrogated through complex and deeply layered characters: Robert PattinsonВ takes the lead, examining modern roles of abstinence and paternity, Mia GothВ is a symbol for addiction, and leading the filmвЂ™s interrogation of race is Tcherny, formerly known as Jeremy, played by AndrГ© BenjaminВ вЂ“ better known as AndrГ© 3000, one half of Atlanta hip hop duo OutKast. The film traces a spaceship of death row inmates whose sentence is to serve science in a social experiment involving black holes. In High Life, director Claire DenisВ uses an outer space setting to explore societal ostracisation, carnality, and humanityвЂ™s soulless return to survival-of-the-fittest.

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