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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 & George Clinton]

    Everybody's got opinions

    On the way you're living (oooh)

    But, see, they can't fill your shoes

    Life is made of half illusion (evolution)

    Forty percent confusion (oooh)

    Whatever's left I'm using to keep myself from losing, yeah

    You don't know what I've been through (oooh)

    Hell, I might go through you (Data boys are horny tonight)

    Uh-oh, oh-no-oahohh (Data boys are horny tonight)

    Hey, hey, hey, hey (SCSIs with a booty in her face)

    And mm-mmmmmm (Modem seeking, data searching, access sleeping)

    All in all, it's all in my head

    [Verse 1: Big Boi]

    You know it's that high guy, from East P.I

    Spittin the realness of reality, you mad at me

    Boy, how you gonna handle me?

    You want me to lolligag and talk that bullsh*t?

    I refuse to play so I'm gon' speak that Southern good sh*t

    That harder than yo' hood sh*t, lil' sh*t

    That make y'all n*ggas think about the trigger

    Before you pull it, on liquor stores and banks

    Them folks got more than enough bullets to put that ass

    Off in the slang, don't claim no gang, we the n*ggas

    That did that "Ain't No Thang But a Chicken Wang"

    But still though, how you gonna play a n*gga like dildo

    We OutKast til it's over, barbecue and never mildew

    For real bro, yeah

    tv

    "In tonight's news, 20th century technology:

    Einstein or Frankenstein?

    Has the computer age, scientists, and doctors gone too far?

    Einstein or Frankenstein?

    Dr. Scholl's, or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

    Are we digging into new ground

    Or digging our own graves? Story at 11"

    [Hook: Andre 3000 & George Clinton]

    Synthesizer (X4)

    [Verse 2: George Clinton]

    Conceived under the influence of toxic wasted doctors

    Computer bugging debugging devices and vice versa

    And various viruses

    Performing with laser light precision and verbal incision

    For a lingustic ballistic lobotomy

    Mind-f*ckin you, a psycho-sodomy of the medulla oblongata

    Exit your mind down your spine and out your behind

    F*ck you

    [Verse 3: André 3000 & George Clinton]

    Synthesizer, microwave me (Cybersites are horny tonight)

    Give me a drug so I can make seven babies

    Pump my breasts up, can you suck the fat up (Fuzzy logic therapeutic country)

    Please make my life appear like ain't no such thing as bad luck (You wanted that? A holiday)

    My nose ain't right, think I need a new one

    Just take your pick, a yellow, red, a black, or a blue one

    Virtual reality? virtual bullsh*t! (Cybersexy Wendy web walking in the nude)

    Synthesizer preachers can reach you up in the pulpit

    Who a b*tch? (Digital good time)

    Give me my gat so I can smoke this n*gga

    Tell his momma not to cry (Digital good time)

    Because they can clone him quicker

    Than it took his daddy to make him

    N*ggas bitin verbatim (Said she'd lapdance on your laptop, while your laptops in your lap)

    Thought provokin' records radio never played dem

    Instant, quick grits, new, improved (Digital good time)

    Hurry hurry, rush rush, world on the move (Digital good time)

    Marijuana illegal but cigarettes cool

    I might look kinda funny but I ain't no fool (Cyber sexy Cindy web walking in the nude)

    Now if you wanna synthesize I empathize (Digital good time)

    Now if you wanna synthesize I empathize (Digital good time)

    But if you synthesize I will understand (A tail ain't nothing but a long booty, ain’t nothin but a butt)

    You'll synthesize a man

    [Hook]