Future and producer Rico Wade— member of Organized Noize, a legendary Atlanta hip-hop production group— are cousins. Rico Wade has produced many southern classic albums, a majority of OutKast’s albums, TLC’s 1995 single Waterfalls and many more. Future credits his first cousin Rico Wade as his musical influence. Rico took Future off the streets and

In 1995 during the Source Awards, OutKast, which consisted of duo Andre 3000 and Big Boi were booed after Winning Best New Rap Group at the 1995 Source Awards. The West Coast and East Coast were beefing at the time, people were surprised when OutKast won Best New Artist because they were from the south

At a point in the early stages of her career, Queen Latifah managed the careers of OutKast, LL Cool J, Naughty By Nature, FU-Schnickens, Monica, SWV, Faith, and many more under her company Flavor Unit Management. Queen Latifah began as a member of New Jersey’s Flavor Unit, a crew of emcees and DJs which was led by Mark

Steve Jobs and Apple launched iTunes on January 9, 2001, A couple years after that, OutKast released their Grammy winning No. 1 single Hey Ya! off their double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below on September 9, 2003. Hey Ya! became the first song in iTunes’ history to reach one million downloads, making it the first song

In 1993, OutKast released “Player’s Ball,” the hit single that launched their career. The single, produced by Organized Noize was originally for a Christmas album and it was originally released two weeks prior on the compilation A LaFace Family Christmas. The single ended up being on OutKast’s 1994 debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. The music video for