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So here we have it, the album of 2000. When it was released, OutKast were a critically respected outfit, but this album shattered all expectations. Swinging wildly between moods, and encompassing a staggeringly vast range of music from Public Enemy-styled ranting (Gasoline Dreams), slick commerical R&B(Ms Jackson) to full-on insanity(B.O.B), the record represented a great leap forward of imagination that made everything else look staid. Whilst Snoop and Dre were spitting out the same rhymes about "Bitchez and Hoes" as they had been for a decade, OutKast were creating something far more interesting, fusing letters of regret, suicide narratives and anti-violence cries with tracks which were downright fun. What united this whole record was a sense of excitement, imagiantion and possibility, making it a huge amount of fun to listen to, and a worthy tribute to the likes of George Clinton,Prince and A Tribe Called Quest whilst also breaking a huge amount of ground itself, and for that it's a worthy album of 2000.