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Champaign-Urbana, IL - Musician, producer, composer, audio designer, and DJ Larry E. Gates II  has played hundreds of stages across the nation and has shared those stages with the likes of Chuck Berry, G. Love & Special Sauce, 30 Seconds To Mars, Local H, Superdrag, Trombone Shorty, Brother Ali, The Nappy Roots, Blueprint, DJ Rare Groove, Illogic, and many others.

 

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Entries in Outkast (5)

Feel Good Fridays: Outkast Emoji

So far, I can only find this clip but let's hope that someone somewhere is putting this whole song together. I give you, the "Ms. Jackson" emoji video.

Turn on yr sound. Emoji music video by @lesleysteele2!

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Feel Good Fridays: Vacation

Sorry that I've been away for a week. Just had an incredible and much needed getaway with the fam. We hit Forecastle Festival in Louisville, KY and saw the likes of Beck, Jack White, Outkast, Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Dwight Yoakam, Jenny Lewis, The Replacements and Spoon. So good. Then we headed to Nashville and got to tour Blackbird Studios (amazing). Then I spoke to the students at Blackbird Academy (thanks to my friend Mark Rubel for both of those). We hit up the Third Man Record Store as well as a ton of other really cool spots. Then we headed northwest to St. Louis. Museums, shopping, the zoo. Good times. I'm back home long enought to get a haircut, do some laundry and go to a wedding - then off to L.A. for another recording session at Warner Brothers. Pfew. 

Real Talk Tuesdays: Jamnuts

I love it when artsits are able to breath new life into an old classic. When Outkast dropped it back in 2003, "Hey Ya" was monumental. Dig this smoothed out rendition by Jamnuts. So good.

Throwback Thursdays: Outkast

Outkast is reuniting this summer and hitting 40 festival dates. I hope to be at one of 'em. And don't look now, but this cut is 14 years old. Turn it up.

Madhouse Mondays: A Tribe Called Kast.

Yup. A Tribe Called Quest mashed up with Outkast. You're welcome. Big ups to Nappy DJ Needles.