Fans have been waiting and waiting… and waiting some more for dirty south duo Outkast to drop another album. Well, according to their manager, the wait is almost over.
Blue Williams told MTV.com that Idlewild the follow up to Speaker Box/The Love Below that he didn’t pressure the group to turn in the album.
“You gotta let creative be creative, that’s what it is,” he said of the film and soundtrack. “It ain’t always when I want it. What it comes down to is, even when I’m ready to hit people with the wham-wham, the guys gotta be ready. I might be sitting there with the ill marketing — ‘We gonna do this, this and this’ — [but] if they ain’t ready, they ain’t ready.”
Recording for the album will wrap in about a week, however, Big Boi and Dre must still pick a lead single. For fans looking to hear the pair on the same track, they may have to wait for single number two. The Train is said to be the jump off for the album, but only Big Boi appears on the track.
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“It looks like we’re gonna start off with a new single that Big has, just to get the ball rolling,”Williams says of The Train. “[The album] is still coming together. I’m letting them live. I don’t know what’s what yet.”
While deadlines might rattle most in the industry, Williams isn’t worried about stacking up to the competition. He’s also not worried about a big industry push, but with a group like Outkast, he shouldn’t be.
“There’s not a lot of dopeness out there, ain’t nobody coming and blazing it through,” he said. “And we don’t need 18 weeks of set-up. For us it’s just, ‘Let’s get it out there, let’s get the movie out.’ The proof is in the pudding. All I gotta do is let people know the date [the album is coming out]. Our fans will find it. We got core fans and once we tell them the date, they gonna get it.”
There are also reports of a tribute project to the late Rosa Parks, whom the group named a single after. The title led to a legal suit against the group which went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court before settlement talks began in late 2004. The case was settled for an undisclosed amount in 2005 (wbai.org)
