The year Outkast and Atlanta took over hip-hop

In 1995, Outkast's André 3000 and Big Boi walked onstage at the second Source Awards at New York City's Paramount Theater, where the Atlanta duo had just been awarded best new group of the year by the influential rap magazine. The crowd, composed mostly of New York and L.A. rap cognoscenti who had invented or dominated the genre, jeered, nearly heckling Outkast offstage — but not before André reeled off a prophesy.

"It's like this, though, I'm tired of them closed-minded folks," André said. "It's like we got a demo tape and don't nobody wanna hear it. But it's like this, the South got somethin' to say."

Eight years later, in 2003, the duo's hometown was inarguably the center of the world for