Every bit the end credits appear on the screen. I become upwardly from my bed. Plough my Macbook on. Stare at this mosquito in my room plotting on the kill. I be damned if information technology bite me while I'g sleep. Smash that lil bitch with my manus. Click on my itunes. Become straight to my Outkast discography. The first rails I click on is "Peaches (Intro)." I just finished "The Art Of Noize" documentary on Netflix. A expect into the rise and fall of Organized Noize. It makes no sense to write this without taking a trip back downward memory lane to listen to the music that made this product trio legendary in music. Not just hip-hop. In music period.

Let's introduced the team.

Rico Wade - The Leader. The mouthpiece. The Deal Maker. The Salesman. Master of 808's.

Ray Murray - The Mad Scientist. The Tech Guy. The Brain.

Sleepy Brown - The Chords. The Vocals.

The musical journey began in Eastpoint on Headland and DeLowe. Rico Wade worked at a beauty shop and was introduced to Sleepy Brown through T-Boz from "TLC." Sleepy played some music for Rico and Rico liked what he heard and so they started booking studio time to create music. Sleepy was working in a studio space at a business firm and Ray stopped by the studio. Sleepy had no clue who he was but Ray came in and made a beat according to Sleepy in 2 minutes and and so Ray just got up and left the studio. Sleepy excited and impressed told Rico about his brief encounter with Ray and campaigned to Rico to bring Ray onto the squad. Ray was in a group with Big Gipp from Goodie Mob and they savage out with their manager so Ray went to go work with Rico and Sleepy. The setups were in Rico'south Mother's apartment and a space Rico rented out side by side to a neighborhood skating rink. Afterwards racket complaints (It'southward only right Noize made noise) because of the music in the apartments. Rico'due south mother had to movement to a business firm on Lakewood and Rico had to stop using the rental infinite to help his female parent with rent in the business firm they moved in. The Dungeon was born. They ate chicken at that place. Slept there. Fabricated music in that location. Over fifteen people in a small unfinished basement. Andre 3000 said "Fuck School" like Waka Flocka and basically moved there full time. They got their deals considering of Pebbles (L.A Reid's Ex-Wife) and the work they created in a space with dirt walls. Atlanta was basically born in The Dungeon.

This part of the documentary fascinated me a lot because as Rico is showing the Dungeon and artists are explaining how it looked and how it was. I was but thinking "Damn then many classics were made in this tiny unfinished basement." I never knew "Player's Ball" was a Christmas song and was shot at that firm. You seriously listen to their music differently after watching this documentary because you lot get to see the history of the crew's come. I had no idea P.Diddy directed the "Player's Ball" video. I thought that was crazy as fuck. Diddy definitely did a neat job. You find out Andre didn't want to wear the Atlanta Braves jersey initially and Rico had to persuade him to and Diddy made Dre have his shirt off for the pool hall scene. Definitely a moment of Nostalgia hearing these legends break the video shoot down. "YO MTV Raps" was filmed at that house with Fab 5 Freddy likewise. Rico'due south business firm definitely should exist a landmark.

The ascension was pretty cool. How "Waterfalls" and "Don't Permit Go" were created were awesome stories because information technology happened and then organically. Marquez Etheridge comes to the studio to pitch a vocal and Rico basically stops the session and they create "Waterfalls" on the fly and of course it goes on to be TLC'south biggest record and Organized Noize's too. En Vogue's "Don't Let Become" was made because Rico foreseen En Vogue singing on the melody. Ray didn't. Ray admitted he was having someone rap over information technology and Rico was persistent on giving the record to En Faddy and as nosotros all know the Rico'due south foresight paid off. Outkast was good. Goodie Mob was good. 2 nail hit records in R&B. Organized Noize arrived. I liked how they explained the procedure of their biggest records. It highlighted how organic creativity can be. Nothing was planned. They went with the feeling and built something beautiful from that feeling.

The fall was kind of weird. They felt that LaFace was a characterization they outgrew and then The trio signed a 20 meg dollar deal with Jimmy Iovine at Interscope and they finally got the payday they wanted. This led to a bunch of partying, drugs, strip clubs, house parties on Rap City and caused the trio to split in terms of working together. A woman had the almost marvelous titties in the footage of that Rap City party. She was in the black by the way. Rico was out on the business end. Ray was the merely person still easily on with artists and taking care of all the workload and Sleepy was focused on creating a album (Vinyl Room is a fucking classic. Check it out). The money came and kind of ruined shit. Information technology's always the case in stories like this. Money makes shit strange. Jimmy basically wanted every tape to exist "Waterfalls" and Organized Noize wanted to have the freedom to create and have someone trust their true southern sound. They concluded upward having their contract terminated and it was back to where they started.

What surprised me was Rico'south feelings towards The Speakerboxx/Honey Below Album. He was upset that Organized Noize wasn't involved. Information technology was Outkast most successful anthology. I idea they were involved because Sleepy Brown did vocals on the album just he was the just ane involved. Rico was pissed and he was definitely upset that no one ever said thank you. I definitely understood his anger. He gave these guys their publishing. That is unheard of in the music industry. What I was disappointed in was that they didn't inquire Outkast why they wanted to exercise the anthology without them. I wanted Big Boi or Andre to go into detail about the moment they fabricated a conclusion that they wasn't working with Rico or Ray. Organized Noize was there for everything up until that album then I feel there had to be something deeper to Outkast'southward decision.

Another matter I wished they covered more was the "Aquemini" anthology and Goodie Mob's "Soul Food" similar they covered "Southernplayalistic." I know a lot of people may feel that "Speakerboxx?Honey Below" was Outkast'due south master opus considering of the sales and hits merely I think "Aquemini" was that master opus and changed the game. It'due south definitely a classic album. It was a album that turned the tide for Outkast. They were nonetheless bankrupt later "ATLiens"(Another album I wished they spoke on) and I think "Aquemini" was that make or break album for their careers. Organized Noize were huge parts of those ii Outkast albums and Goodie Mob album. I wish they would've talked almost them more. They really meant a lot to hip-hop.

Overall, besides my stan-ish complaint above, this was a really cool documentary about some cool ass cats out of Atlanta who love to create. A musical trio that played a huge part in creating the Atlanta sound. I actually enjoyed this documentary and I believe every aspiring artist should watch this documentary to run across the work ethic, the vices, the sacrifices, the up's and down's in this business these guys endured. You volition learn a corking deal from this documentary. These are guys who really oasis't received a lot of credit for what they've done in the game. They're back in the underdog role again today and I have no incertitude they tin brand another run and do something special once more. Salute to the legends.

- BENNY

Benny