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Aquemini is OutKast's third studio album, released on September 29, 1998. The album title represents Big Boi and André 3000's personalities by combining their Zodiac signs: Aquarius and Gemini.

Expanding on the outer space-inspired sounds of the duo’s previous record (ATLiens), Aquemini incorporates influences of 1970s funk, southern soul, gospel, country, psychedelic rock, and more. It explores various themes lyrically — including individuality, human nature, addiction, self-inflicted struggles, technology, and relationships — while blending together science fiction concepts and urban narratives.

This website was illustrated, designed, and coded by Marissa Hart for the BFA Communication Design Capstone in Illustration in Spring 2025, at WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Fonts used: Space Grotesk, Gil Modern & Tuppence.

Special thanks to my professor Shreyas R. Krishnan, TA Maddie Baker, and the illustration cohort for their support and advice throughout the semester!

TRACKLIST ALBUM CREDITS
  • [Verse 1: Big Boi]

    Somebody hit me the other day for a rendezvous

    Was it the b*tch that f*cked the Goodie and the Dungeon Crew?

    Let's say her name was Suzy Skrew 'cause she screwed a lot

    Makin' a n*gga hit that chonk at legitimate spots

    Not no parks, backseats, or things of that nature

    Had to hate ya, playa

    I'm d*ckin' the ho down — never said I paid her

    Straight laid her, slayed the b*tch like Darth Vader, made her

    From College Park and Fayette all the way down to Decatur

    Like Jada, her wig was sharp and sporty — that was shawty

    Safe as a snake on eggs in a Bimmer 840

    It's foggy, I went to the crib to call her but she lost me

    My baby mama beeped me, seven o'clock, it's gonna cost me

    But I still wanna cut her, though — maybe she had to work?

    I caught her in the mall, wearin' a real tight skirt

    She was fine as f*ck — I wanted to sex the ho up

    She said, "Let's hit the parking lot so I can sick your duck"

    I said, "Cool, I really wanted to cut you but this'll do

    I gotta pick up my daughter, plus my baby mama beeped me, too"

    She said she understood and everythin' was kosher

    I gave her a Lil' Wil CD and a f*ckin' poster

    It's like that, now

    [Chorus: Sleepy Brown & Big Boi]

    It's like that, now

    You better go on and get the hump up out your back now

    It's about fo' or five cats off in my 'Lac now

    We just shoot game in the form of story raps now (Yeah)

    It's like that now, it's like that now

    [Verse 2: André 3000]

    Now Suzy Skrew had a partner named Sasha... Thumper

    I remember her number like the summer

    When her and Suzy, yeah, they threw a slumber

    Party, but you can not call it that 'cause it was slummer

    Well, it was more like spend the night

    Three in the mornin', yawnin', dancin' under street lights

    We chillin' like a villain, and a n*gga feelin' right

    In the middle of the ghetto on the curb, but in spite all of the bullsh*t

    We on our back, starin' at the stars above (Aww, man)

    Talkin' bout what we gonna be when we grow up (Mm)

    I said, "What you wanna be?" She said, "Alive"

    It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes

    I coulda died, time went on, I got grown

    Rhyme got strong, mind got blown

    I came back home to find lil' Sasha was gone

    Her mama said she with a n*gga that be treatin' her wrong (Man)

    I kept on singin' my song and hopin' at a show

    That I would one day see her standin' in the front row

    But two weeks later, she got found in the back of a school

    With a needle in her arm, baby two months due

    Sasha Thumper

    [Chorus X2]