Big Boi: daddy first, rap mogul second

Unlike Andre 3000, who recently declared himself "all over the place," said he "never went on dates" and didn't want to "meet anybody's parents," Big Boi has a foundation. He had a serious girlfriend and a kid at 19, just as OutKast, his Atlanta hip-hop duo, was taking off in the mid-'90s. "It caused me to grow up and mature. I had to think about more than just myself," says the rapper born Antwan Patton. "Having a family has kept me from just being super-wild.