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Big Boi socks it to 'em

Outkast
Jul 6, 2012 Updated Jul 9, 2012

If you're part of a duo, and your partner makes a move into movies, what do you do?

The answer in Big Boi's case - now that OutKast's other half Andre 3000 is lined up to play Jimi Hendrix in an upcoming biopic - is to sell socks.

In an interview with GQ magazine, the rapper declared "I'm the sock king! They've got a cape on the back - that's how I flew here. I got my own socks line coming out".

Source: NME external link

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Outkast (stylized as OutKast) is an American hip hop duo based in East Point, Georgia, consisting of Atlanta native André "André 3000" Benjamin (formerly known as Dré) and Savannah, Georgia-born Antwan "Big Boi" Patton. They were originally known as Two Shades Deep but later changed the group's name to OutKast. The group's original musical style was a mixture of Dirty South and G-funk. Since...

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