No this child is not autistic as a consequence of a vaccination.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is a double album released by the duo Outkast in 2003. It features solo albums from the two members. Speakerboxxx is Big Boi’s solo effort on the album (although “Ghetto Musick” and “Knowing” both have André 3000 on them). Most of the production is handled by Big Boi himself, with help from André 3000 and a smattering of other producers.

The double disc is the highest selling rap record of all time, going diamond and selling more than 11 million copes in the US. It was number 1 in the US Billboard 200, and the lead single from Big Boi’s side, “The Way You Move,” hit number 1 in the US.

Big Boi called in a huge amount of talent for his disc, with Jazze Pha, Jay Z, Cee-Lo Green, Killer Mike and Ludacris all featuring heavily. It’s a more traditional hip-hop record than previous Outkast efforts, and paves the way for his flourishing solo career, which included a lot of experimentation rooted in a foundation of hip hop.

A studio manager during the sessions, John Frye, gave a bit of insight into the process:

Yeah, they did start to work more and more separately as the years went on, but they always came together and critiqued each other’s music and made suggestions. It was never a rub. If one was in with me, the other would just come in the next time.

In 1989, 2 Live Crew released their third album As Nasty As They Wanna Be. It is a double-album consisting mostly of graphically pornographic songs that helped push the boundaries of free speech in rap. A somewhat milder version of some of its songs were released separately under the title As Clean As They Wanna Be.

Its lead single “Me So Horny” found heavy rotation on Miami radio that soon spread across the nation, pushing the song into the US top 30 in late 1989, giving its graphically pornographic album a mainstream audience. This attracted the attention of not only the PMRC but Florida attorney/activist Jack Thompson, who insisted the mayor investigate into whether the album’s songs could legally be considered obscene and therefore illegal to sell or perform live.

When a county judge ruled the album was obscene, Thompson fired off letters and lyrics to governors and sheriff’s departments across the state. Judges all over Florida as well as some counties in six other states issued similar rulings. In June of 1990, a Fort Lauderdale record store owner was arrested for selling the album to an undercover police officer, and members of the group were arrested in Miami for performing songs from it. Eventually a jury acquitted the group.

These incidents would inspire some songs on the group’s next album Banned In The USA (originally released as Luke featuring 2 Live Crew) like “Fuck Martinez” (referring to then-Florida governor Bob Martinez) and its top 20 title track which sampled Bruce Springsteen’s mega-hit “Born In The USA” with his explicit permission and ‘enthusiastic’ support.

Meanwhile, As Clean As They Wanna Be had its own legal situation. The album contains three songs not available on As Nasty As They Wanna Be, one of which heavily uses an uncleared sample of Roy Orbison’s “(Oh) Pretty Woman”. At first a district court deemed their song a parody, which qualified it for fair use, but the Supreme Court later reversed the decision and the parties reached a settlement out of court.

As Nasty As They Wanna Be holds the honor of being the first album by a southern rap group to sell more than 1 million copies and achieve platinum status.