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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
  • [Intro: André 3000]

    (Yeah) Yeah, yeah, yeah (Woo), rrah

    [Chorus: André 3000]

    Old school players to new school fools

    'Kast keep it jumping like kangaroos

    We'll skew it on the bar-b, we ain't tryin to lose

    Say, "I'll be goddamned if they done changed the rules"

    Old school players to new school fools

    'Kast keep it jumping like kangaroos

    We'll skew it on the bar-b, we ain't tryin to lose

    Say, "I'll be goddamned if they done changed the rules"

    [Verse 1: André 3000]

    The common denominator, the n*gga numerator

    Never know who the hater, n*ggas cater to your ego

    I'm sorry like Atari, who's the cousin to Coleco

    Vision, caught a RICO, back on the street like Chico

    DeBarge, he large and got a 'Lac in the garage

    Few parts here and there, I declare hard

    My Lord, one at Clark, one at Spelman

    Both know each other and it's cool, you can tell when

    He step off in the party, women jump for joy

    But all the wild n*ggas scheming, they gon' jump the boy

    For spittin' all that bourgeoi', "My watch, my car"

    I'm a star, I'd rather be a comet by far (Rrah, rrah)

    [Chorus]

    [Verse 2: Raekwon]

    Deliver this through your audio, ghetto mafioso

    Grow hydro, then bag it up slow

    Price that, longevity suggest make moves slow

    Take time, grow eight, react nine, blow

    Hydro slide raw like f*ck Ronaldo

    Fly ride, though, sh*t lookin' wild dope

    Then glide, yo, flippin' the page, I go

    Watch five-o, jump on my meat, ride slow

    Watch those undercovers, cop those, rock those

    Glock blows, leave 'em baggy and collect, spot closed

    Keep a watch froze, lean on the yacht, wash clothes

    Let the chop blow, bag a half a block, plot grows, what?

    [Chorus]

    [Verse 3: Big Boi & André 3000]

    Boy, I bust raps like D-boys bust gats, sh*t

    We the type of people that don't bury the axe

    Or the hatchet, every time we see your link, we snatch it

    Ridin' 'round our hood talkin' that dumb sh*t, your cabbage

    Is cracked like plumber's ass and summer's grass

    I been in the game for a minute, seen some suckas like y'all passin'

    Thinkin' you're light skinned, aight then, lil' boy why you frightened?

    The Dungeon Family gon' be here, n*gga, so keep writing

    I gotta hit The Source, I need my other half a mic

    Because that Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik was a classic, right

    College Park, East Point and Decatur they got my back, so

    We gon' keep on jammin' and stabbin' off in the track, I

    Think it's time to bungee, but buddy we will be back

    And I'm fin' to put some D's on the 'Lac, know dat (Rrah)

    [Chorus]