Is the OutKast reunion really happening?
Following the release of his recent collaborative Big Grams album with Phantogram, rapper-actor Big Boi sat down with Maxim Magazine for a brief interview. In the conversation, he opened up on having 40 songs in the stash, including working with both Jeezy and Killer Mike. While an OutKast reunion is something fans are in need for after the reunion tour teaser last year, Big Boi touched on whether the two are working on future material at the moment or not in the excerpts below.
Tell me about he craziest drinking experience of your life.
There’s been a lot, but it has to be the night I ended up with a baby afterwards. This was in Atlanta, 1999 or 2000. I started out at the strip club called the Gentleman’s Club, one of the best strip clubs in Atlanta. We used to go there all the time. This was back in the days when I had an iron liver. We used to drink Cuervo Gold tequila. We’d do like 20 shots. It was crazy. This was before I knew anything about alcohol poisoning. But I used to drink a lot of water too, so I kind of filtered it. It was before the days of Uber, so I had my homeboys drive me around. We’d go to the club and order about 50 shots or so. I wouldn’t feel nothing until after about the first ten shots. Something about Cuervo Gold, it just makes you randy. So after about 20 shots, I get home and wake my wife up and from there.
Wait, after 20 tequila shots you were still able to have sex?
It was some of the most intense lovemaking ever in history. I’m talking about, your body is numb. The key to it is that you have to drink bottles of water. You get home after drinking 20 shots and your wife is dead asleep, I don’t care if she got a bonnet, a do rag, hair rollers, she’ll look like the black Marilyn Monroe to me. I just kinda snatched the covers off her and we had a good old time. That was my third child, my son. It was great, man. It was almost like a ritual. Just doing all those shots and going home and partying. My wife don’t really drink that much. She might drink a vodka and cranberry or some wine. But we were just having fun, enjoying life to the fullest.
And you’re working on your third solo album too?
I got about 40 songs. I just finished one with Young Jeezy and Killer Mike that’s crazy. I already got that lined up to put out after the Big Grams album. Right now, everything in the game is kind of at a standstill. And you know, I’m the musical defibrillator—I come to shake shit up.
You and Andre 3000 did an Outkast reunion tour last year. Are you planning on touring again, or doing a new Outkast record?
You gotta stay tuned, you never know. Right now me and my partner been kinda just kicking it and hanging out. Going to strip clubs, just hanging out like we did in high school.
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