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OutKast's Big Boi pursuing solo success
(CNN) - Sixteen years ago, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton and his partner-in-rhyme, Andre "3000" Benjamin, single-handedly put Southern hip-hop on the map as the rap group OutKast with the debut of their album, "Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik."
In 2003, they released their biggest commercial and critical hit to date, "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below." Fast forward to 20 million albums later, and music pundits continue to put OutKast atop their lists of the genre's most influential groups of all time.
Despite the pair's undeniable mark on the history of hip-hop, Big Boi finds himself in a unique position: one-half of a legendary duo who has had success elude him so far as a solo artist.
But Big Boi is hoping to change that.
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