The world knows him as Big Boi, one-half of multi-platinum, five-time Grammy Award-winning supergroup OutKast, whose albums and singles have sold over 25-times platinum in the U.S. alone.
Now make way for Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty, Big Boi's first stand-alone solo album, nearly four years in the making and finally set to arrive July 6th on Def Jam Recordings. 10 days later, Big Boi joins the lineup at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago's Union Park, over the July 16-18th weekend.
Big Boi is already back in the picture with his Def Jam debut, Shutterbug featuring Cutty, produced by Scott Storch, the lead single from Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty.
The rapper’s signing to the Island Def Jam Music Group marks a reunion with the label's Chairman, Antonio 'L.A.' Reid, as officially announced throughout the media last week.
"L.A. knows what time it is since I was a teeny bopper, so when I first started working on the record I talked to L.A.," Big Boi told Billboard, referring to Reid's near 20-year association with OutKast.
The duo signed their first record deal with Reid, and his Atlanta-based LaFace Records, the label he founded with Babyface. He has been in OutKast's corner since the creation of their first album, 1994's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, which was recorded when Big Boi was still a teenager.
Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty is essentially Big Boi's first stand-alone solo album project since Speakerboxxx. As reported by New York magazine, "He started working on his solo album on Martin Luther King Day ... three years ago."
Now the wait is almost over.
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