Big Boi
About this Artist
Atlanta indisputably set the pace for modern hip-hop. However, Big Boi set the pace for Atlanta and, by proxy, the culture at large. If the genre of hip-hop ever gets its own “Rap Mount Rushmore,” a legacy as the region’s foremost wordsmith, funkiest gentleman, and resident ATLien certainly guarantees a place for the diamond-selling artist, rapper, songwriter, record producer, actor, and philanthropist, born Antwan André Patton. Big made history as the preeminent spitter of the Dungeon Family and one-half of OutKast. The legendary duo sold 25 million albums and garnered six Grammy Awards, becoming the first and only hip-hop artists in history to win the Grammy for Album of the Year upon release, for the 2003 RIAA Diamond-certified Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Big Boi made his proper introduction as a solo artist in 2010 with Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. A modern classic, it rose to No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 and landed on Pitchfork’s “100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far.”
Following a succession of high-profile album releases, Big Boi released his most recent album, Boomiverse, in 2017. The smash single “All Night” provided the soundtrack for a high-profile Apple Animoji commercial, blew up radio, and clocked 40 million streams within a year. The song also hit the Top 30 on the pop chart and Top 10 at Rhythmic. In addition to his music career, the hip-hop legend recently announced that he would be the executive producer for a new crime series titled Government Records. He also signed a deal with Bread and Butter Content Studio to produce Big Boi’s Gotta Eat, an upcoming series to find the freshest seafood and unique food culture coast to coast, with an energy that only Big Boi can bring.