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YouTube video by Trevor Jackson TV OutKast SHUTS DOWN the Hall of Fame Stage 🔥🏆 (Full Performance 2025)

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YouTube video by Docs By Dre Outkast Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Speech & Performance

4) On November 8, 2025, OutKast was inducted in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame along with legendary hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa.
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YouTube video by OutkastVEVO OutKast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) (Zack de la Rocha Remix - Official Audio)

3) The track was inspired by the band Rage Against the Machine. In 2020 RATM frontman Zach de la Rocha produced a remix of the song as part of the 20th Anniversary album reissue.
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2) Andre 3000 called the song's style "slumadelic". It is incorporates hip-hop, rock and gospel influences and the video incorporates surrealism to re-define hip-hop culture. That post-modern, magic realism, view is carried through shows like "Atlanta" and movies like "Sorry To Bother You".

1) No. 39 on Rolling Stone's Greatest Songs of All Time. Some radio stations banned the song because it was released while US Troops were occupying Iraq. Both Andre 3000 and Big Boi stated that they were against the invasion.

YouTube video by OutkastVEVO Outkast - B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad) (Official HD Video)

Fun Facts about "Bombs Over Baghdad", Stankonia, 2000. Performed by OutKast. Written by Antwan André Patton, André Benjamin and David Sheats.
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7) Yes? No? Who knows? It's politics. Shit happens.

6) So if mytherapistlife is correct, can we assume that Mamdani is an "original man", here to inform and bring wisdom, rhetorically challenge all opponents, planning to be around forever?

5) Verse three is pure braggadocio hip-hop. Using words to challenge and overwhelm opponents. He declares, "your name is what a loser men, you on the losing team" and reiterates the definition of KRS: "knowledge reigns supreme".

4) In verse two he identifies with colonized cultures. Despite all attempts to slur these cultures (barbarian, heathen, pagan), he remains the "original man, that's what [they're] facing". Also despite colonization, these cultures still exist: "we will "be here forever I told you".

3) Verse one evokes KRS's "renegade, poet, teacher and scholar" persona, the one that acknowledges he is the part of hip-hop "that edutains and informs you" and provides wisdom to those who are listening.

I’m about to catch the Holy Ghost 😂😂😂 Total #GenX reference iykyk ✊🏾 TikTok video by Ms. Aishia

2) TikToker mytherapistlife theorizes that this could be a reference to this KRS-One track.
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1) On November 4, 2025, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech including the words "So, Donald Trump, since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up!”

YouTube video by KRS-One - Topic Turn The Volume Up

Fun Facts about "Turn Tha Volume Up", Between the Protests, 2020. Written and performed by KRS-One.
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3) The song evokes the Minneapolis Sound, funk subgenre pioneered by Prince and André Cymone. YouTube commenter Jauntyloop says of the song "Rick James and Prince didn’t die, they just reincarnated vicariously." Reddit poster EddieRibs claims that Morris Day has stamped his approval on the single.

2) Knight says “[The single] got everything I love: vintage drum machines, sassy synth lines, that classic rock and roll rhythm, and loud guitar solos. It’s us saying, ‘Yeah, we really live this sh*t.’”

1) Producer Leon Knight, and performer DE'WAYNE teamed up to produce what writer Paige Owens calls "a groove-driven, swagger-loaded track".

YouTube video by On The Radar Radio Leon Knight x DE'WAYNE "Yes I Do" | On The Radar Live Performance

Fun Facts about "Yes I Do", Written and Performed by Leon Knight and DE'WAYNE.
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5) Back in my university days, it was Mike Wex's favourite song.

4) Andy Bell gave rugby club the "Hull Kingston Rovers" permission to record a charity single of the song in aid of two local children's charities and the Terrence Higgins Trust.

3) The music video was directed by Peter Christopherson. It features Clarke singing the song with Bell intercut with dramatic and comedic vignettes illustrating literal interpretations of the verse lyrics. It is one of the few videos Vince admits to actually enjoy making.

2) The song was the No. 1 choice for Top Pride Anthems in poll of Virgin Radio UK listeners. Runner-up was Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful."

1) Andy Bell was one of the first openly gay pop stars, and according to Spin magazine, he would sometimes introduce this song on stage by saying: "When I was a little girl, I asked my mummy, 'Can I be gay when I grow up?' She replied, 'Yes if you show a little respect."

YouTube video by Erasure Erasure - A Little Respect (Official HD Music Video)

Fun Facts about "A Little Respect", The Innocents. Performed by Erasure. Written by Andy Bell and Vince Clarke.
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4) Kellindo Parker plays the guitar on this song. He is cool as hell. Just had to say it.

3) The song features references James Brown's "Sex Machine". The lyric “gettin’ funky on the scene” echoes Brown's “get on the scene like a lovin’ machine.” When performing the song Monae mimics his dance style, music stings and his cloak routine.

2) Monáe said "Tightrope deals with balance. Early on in my career, and even now, it's a daily struggle to stay balanced and not get too high or too low. You can't get too high on praises and you can't get too low on any one situation."

1) First single from Monáe's debut studio album "The ArchAndroid". The album is a continuation of her Metropolis concept, an Afrofuturistic, sci-fi, messianic, story featuring her alter ego, Cindi Mayweather, inspired by Fritz Lang's "Metropolis".

YouTube video by BBC Music Janelle Monáe - Tightrope (Later Archive)

Fun Facts about "Tightrope", The ArchAndroid, 2010. Performed by Janelle Monáe. Written by Janelle Monáe Robinson, Nathaniel Irvin III, Charles Joseph II and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton.
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3) The song was prominently featured in the movie "Chef" (2014), directed by John Favreau.
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