Stankonia

Stankonia is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released October 31, 2000 on La Face Records. The album reached number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart , selling over 530,000 copies the first week of its release. Stankonia received universal acclaim from music critics, based on an aggregate score of 95/100 from Metacritic. The album received rave reviews from publications such as USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. It was also ... more

Stankonia is the fourth studio album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released October 31, 2000 on La Face Records. The album reached number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart , selling over 530,000 copies the first week of its release. Stankonia received universal acclaim from music critics, based on an aggregate score of 95/100 from Metacritic. The album received rave reviews from publications such as USA Today and the Los Angeles Times. It was also voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll. In 2003, the album was ranked number 359 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2006, Time magazine named Stankonia as one of the 100 best albums of all time. In 2009, Pitchfork Media ranked it number 13 on its list of the top 200 albums of the 2000s. The limited edition artwork features a computer-generated image of a subset of the Mandelbrot set, a fractal. Stank, a commonly used word on the album, is derived from a... less