Vice have launched their first annual Noisey Christmas Special with Big Boi

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rapper Big Boi is trying new sounds and styles for his highly anticipated second album out on Tuesday, carving a successful solo spotlight beyond OutKast's devoted following. Big Boi, whose real name is Antwan Andre Patton, is best-known as one-half of hip-hop duo OutKast with Andre 3000. The group, which went on in...

Big Boi seems to exist entirely in the indie-festival universe these days, so it’s nice, every once in a while, to remember that he’s totally famous, that he has a bunch of hits to his name, and that a daytime talk show like The View is still totally willing to book him when he’s got [...]

After Speakerboxxx, after Big Boi Presents Got Purp?, after Sir Lucious Left Foot, it’s now possible to say that Big Boi, the solo artist, has his very own aesthetic — one pretty far removed from the ruminative Dungeon Family gutbucket soul-funk that animated the first three OutKast albums. Big Boi’s sound builds on...

Big Boi counts Mumford & Sons among his favorites