Southern rap duo, Outkast has made a lasting mark on the HipHop scene for both their innovative and futuristic music and their eclectic, unapologetic style.  In their sophomore release Andre 3000 and Big Boi push the bounds of Afrofuturistic sound production.  The album title, ATLiens, pays homage to their cultural roots in the great city of Atlanta while also denoting thier seeming misplacement in the rap mainstream.  At the time of the album’s release, 1996, HipHop was all about glorified drug culture and the glamorization of the street hustler.  But Andre and Big Boi chose to focus on existential introspection, and extraterrestrial life.  They intersected these futuristic notions with a southern, relaxed, ‘player-like’ persona.  Outkast is a cornerstone in the futuristic realm of HipHop and rap music.

In the video for their album titled song, ATLiens, Big Boi and Andre 3000 are searching through hieroglyphs and climb through a narrow passageway that can be said to look very much like the entrance to a Utopian enclave.  The hieroglyphs are clear allusions to an Egyptian past that can be viewed as the recursiveness of the blutopic, as it points to an ancient past and futuristic present.

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