The Album OutKast Made While Drifting Apart
‼️This is a “Deluxe Edition” video!‼️ You can do nothing and watch the regular version, but if you’d like to unlock the Deluxe Edition, here’s what to do:
➡️ STEP 1 – Watch this video on your TV or Computer
➡️ STEP 2 – Tap the Settings gear on the YouTube video and change the Audio Track Language to “Klingon”
➡️ Step 3 – Scan the QR code on screen with your phone and follow the instructions to automatically sync a companion video.
If the QR code scan is giving you trouble, here’s the link to the companion video: https://sync.diggingthegreats.com/watch/camp-digs-week-3
Also, you can play with the DTG Beat Lab from the Deluxe Edition here: https://sync.diggingthegreats.com/labs/camp-digs-week-3.html
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It’s Week 3 of Camp Digs 2026, it’s 90s week, so we’re digging into Aquemini
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In 1998, the two halves of OutKast were pulling in opposite directions. André went vegan, sober, and was starting to get a little more out there. Big Boi stayed the Atlanta player who wouldn’t change for anyone. Most groups would break up here, but instead they made one of the best albums of the 90s.
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DIG DEEPER
📻 – Camp Digs Radio Hour — 2 hours on Outkast and the influences that lead to this album, hosted by me: https://diggingthegreats.com/posts/camp-digs-2026-3-162564836
🎧 – “Aquemini” listening livestream party this Friday, food & drink pairing : https://diggingthegreats.com/posts/outkast-party-162627838
🏕️ – Camp Digs 2026 Overview: https://diggingthegreats.com/posts/announcing-camp-162024215?vanity=DiggingTheGreats&postId=announcing-camp-162024215
⭐️ – My “ATLiens” breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tMOCJhxGFo&t=91s
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FOLLOW DIGGING THE GREATS
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THANK YOU TO THE MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TIER ON PATREON
Sam Deka
Shawn Barker
Josh Nelson
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#outkast #aquemini #hiphop #musichistory #bigboi #andre3000
@diggingthegreats
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
To watch the Deluxe Edition, switch the language to Klingon and scan the QR code or click here on your phone for the companion video: https://sync.diggingthegreats.com/watch/camp-digs-week-3
SPOILER: the Deluxe Edition lets you recreate the beat yourself during the video – you can play with the DTG Beat Lab separately here: https://sync.diggingthegreats.com/labs/camp-digs-week-3.html
@MrMcSwagger1
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
I'm already liking your channel 2:19 in i like the fact that I can unlock a secret
Extra video aka secret track!! I will keep watching, hopefully, this video does not disappoint.But I doubt it will!
@Balouchiee24
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Yoooooo!!!!! I was smiling ear to ear hearing the actual music play out my phone !! The beat lab!!!
@blaineholt1589
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
My personal favorite album of their, one of my favorite of all times. Synthesizer is my favorite track of theirs. But the whole thing is great
@Pixeldusted
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
In correct. The drift was Stankinia
@flip1sba
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Another significant about Aquameni is the design. It showcased the popular effects of Adobe Photoshop during the mid to late 1990s.
@pickledlampshade
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
The timing of this video is crazy I’ve always liked OutKast but this album finally hit for me I haven’t been able to turn it off
@HolePuncherStudios
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Besides ATLiens, Aquimeni is my favorite.
@AsceBlayze
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Great with the sync! I almost didn’t do it. Hopefully YouTube makes this easier to do, it definitely enhanced the entire experience
@rb2814
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
fun fact about the Rosa Parks lawsuit… Rosa Parks herself had very little to do with the lawsuit. Her lawyer was just trying to cash in on the controversy. Parks' family said that she didn't know who Outkast was and if she did she would most likely be flattered.
@bingbingproductions
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
This has to be one of the greatest video concepts I've ever seen someone come up with! This was so fun. You've got to do this again!
@whatsgoingon71
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
I recommend everybody to watch the Key and Peele documentary about their relationship.
@1948generaljeet
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Get the story right. 3000 was told what to do, wear and how to act by his handler. No one becomes "famous" without one. Stop with the mental gymnastics ! They souled out.
@PassDatShtt
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
1:28 wtfffffff insane … the good kind lol
@brandonminnis7070
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
this phone companion thing is sick AF! DtG and Camp Digs is back in full effect!
@aydennso
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
8:20, you even got the timing perfect
@slimshaky704
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
This album helped shaped my life! The homies and I were outkast junkies from atliens thru aquemini and stayed that way til that massive marshall mathhees bomb dropped later in 99! Still would credit outkast with keeping me a hip hop head after the passing of pac and big…I graduated class of 2000 so u can see how this album would be important to me!
@CamWuzHere
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Always a treat to listen or read breakdowns about my favorite album of all time. Just a straight up classic.
@dre3k78
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
All their albums were classics but the first 3 imo were masterpieces. I also feel ATLiens was their greatest work simply because it was their pivotal sophomore album. Following up a successful debut album is probably the hardest thing to do for any music artist. Do you try and recreate the first album's magic to retain fans and sales only to look like a one trick pony or dare to do something new and unique putting your career in jeopardy? Outkast went with the latter and showed the world they had no creative limitations in a genre that often shunned thinking outside the box for the most part. And they were doing all this during the whole "East vs West" crap of the mid/late 90s that got most of the attention…even though real hip hop heads were listing to Kast at the time.
@JerrellXotiikClemmons
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🔥🔥
@samuelmoyerman1423
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
this is the greatest album ever made.
@nubbles9431
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
The horns on aquemeni give me chills every time the come on
@ShmupShmuck
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Mamacita is a good song, haters just dont get it
@d0rifto1
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
i like the work around for youtube restrictions
@lawr8th
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Although Aquemini is a good album, it seems like people like to crown it a classic because of the consistency rather than the actual music. Because to me, Southern Player and ATLIENS are better albums
@MegaVern1
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Another dope episode
@MegaVern1
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Southernplayalistic is the cake. ATLiens is the icing on the cake. And Aquemini is the cherry on top! OutKast made their mark and represented the South so wonderfully.
@KenMorrow-scotchpillgram
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
10:54 HAD TO MAKE UP FOR ATLIENS. ANOTHER CLASSIC.
@Spacecowboy2071-v3i
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Aquemini is my favorite Outkast album
@kondodurham2599
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
…GOAT ALBUM
@ehlohimwhil5762
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
ATLiens was a better album (THE ORIGINAL RELEASE, not the re-recorded versions that’s on Apple Music)
@1976-kp
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Brotha, you're still metamucil!!! Thank you sir!
@Vertigo11
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
One of the best albums ever!
@BullGTI
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Loving the sync'd up content and the Deluxe Edition!
@productpusher1
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
This was an amazing experience with the sync content.
@diegoblanco5199
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Is Seven the guy that played the sax on Erykah’s tiny desk?
@BillSteiny
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
ATLiens is their best. Absolutely zero skips start to finish. Consistent production that's beautiful and atmospheric stringing the tracks together feeling much more like one body of work compared to individual songs, and keeping everything feeling on "theme" for the album. Aquemini has some fantastic tracks, but it's not a no skip masterpiece like the album before it.
@retro2161
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
I love digging the greats it's one of the best music channels ever and I understand the problem with YouTube and why you're trying out this new format of which I support, I'd rather see my favorite YouTubers experiment and try new things to get past the corruptions of the platform, but having said that I gotta say I'm not enjoying the new format all that much even though I follow the steps it never syncs correctly, I don't like having to constantly look over at the tv and down at my phone the whole time, the sound quality isn't that good because it's coming from the phones speakers I also don't like that the audio on you phone plays while your talking on the video and i personally watch these videos to relax but with this new format I don't feel that anymore. I hope to be in the minority and I truly hope for the best for this channel.
@Ichabodbrain
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Welp now I'm gonna wait to watch this on my TV then lol
@bryantbrown1882
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
THIS TECH IS GAME CHANGING!
@21MWTF
July 25, 2026 at 5:59 am
Well done sir….well done.