While legions of children will be donning their best costumes on October 31 for Halloween next month, OutKast will be delivering another kind of treat: A 25th anniversary deluxe reissue of their fourth album, Stankonia .

The highly celebrated LP cemented members Big Boi and André 3000 as hip-hop's official mad scientists, as they combined a hodgepodge of sounds and influences, like blues, gospel, rave, and funk .

Stankonia was also the follow-up to 1998's Aquemini , the album that showed the Atlanta duo leaning into their respective group roles — Big Boi being the wise, space-aged, street prophet, and Andre the eclectic poet, who seemed to travel to other dimensions in between albums and head straight to the studio upon his return.

Bonus Tracks And Artwork

So, to celebrate

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