Big Boi stopped by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Wednesday (August 8) and talked about his Boomiverse album, his hometown of Atlanta and his recent interest in owls.
“My new fetish now is owls,” he explained. “So my assistant, Shay, she’s into birds and the guy who trains her birds brought this owl to the studio one time and I fell in love with him. I bought two owls, Hooti and Houdini … Mike Tyson had tigers. I got birds.”
The legendary rapper also talked about his 2017 album Boomiverse, as well as his accomplishments outside of OutKast.
“Two of my greatest accomplishments outside of being in OutKast is signing Janelle Monae and Killer Mike,” he said. “Finding those artists and seeing that there are artists that can take the baton and run with it. They both kind of knew what they wanted and I didn’t have to really babysit while they were doing it. To see where they are right now, I’m like a proud big brother.”
Big Boi also discussed Atlanta’s recent growth since the movie industry has moved in and how he discovered Atlanta had made it.
“The movie industry came in, so along with that came the traffic,” he noted. “I guess in the past five or six years, Atlanta traffic has become like New York or L.A. traffic. That’s how I discovered [that Atlanta made it].”
Watch the entire interview above.
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Good because his old obsession, being the only one to hold onto Outkast, was depressing. Here’s hoping he makes better solo albums; catalog has been shaky after that first one he dropped
Boomiverse was incredible. WTF are you talking about? The lyricism was great and poetic, the production was banging, and there was great variety of styles. All Night, Kill Jill, In the South, Etc. Did you even listen to the album?
No ones going to ever give BigBoi the respect he deserves. Honestly, if it wasnt for ThreeStax storytelling abilities, BigBoi would be considered the better rapper.
Dre will always be the fav but true Ourkast know Big Boi the better MC 3k said that himself.
All Night, Kill Jill, In the South and Mic Jack was the only dope songs on Boomiverse. Doesn’t matter though. OutKast catalog is classic, except for the Idlewild soundtrack. And Big Bois two first albums are crazy good. I’m sure Big Boi will bounce back on the next one. I honestly don’t think there’s one rapper who’s been in the game 15+ years who doesn’t have at least one album that was sub-par. Boomiverse is Big Bois. With that being said, his lyrics are still dope. Boomiverse problem is production and guests on the songs I didn’t already mention. Either way, his legacy is well renowned. And yeah, Big Boi is a better MC than 3K. 3K score major points for storytelling, metaphors and style. Big Boi got storytelling and bars. “I twist my AK to the side, just for style.”
Boy u sound stupid as Hell , Big Boi been Killing shit since Outkast went on Hiatus , Google Him , Fuck Boy
My biggest obsessions are Drizzy Drake and Pusha T. I love Drake a lot. I hate how Pusha T made a diss track to Drake, but I can’t stop talking about that either, even though it did absolutely nothing. The fake drug dealer had to cut his own tour in half and as soon as Drake gets his bus back, he’ll be selling out every city on the map. I’ll be in the front row screaming for Drake to slap my hand. It’ll be a night I’ll never forget.
Wow what a POS. Owls are badass predators. Don’t domesticate them you southern inbred smfh
I recall there was an owl in the Ms. Jackson video, universe was planning this all along.
I love them so much that I’m gonna take them out of their habitat, prevent them from flying, hunting, and their natural life, and enslave them in this cage where they will be my prisoners for me to glance at twice a day for three seconds. Black people don’t respect nature. I hate to say that but it’s true.