OutKast's Big Boi Sets Solo Album Release

The world knows him as Big Boi -Antwan Andr� Patton - one-half of multi-platinum, five-time Grammy Award-winning supergroup, whose albums and singles have sold over 25-times platinum in the U.S. alone. Now make way for SIR LUCIOUS LEFT FOOT: THE SON OF CHICO DUSTY, Big Boi's first stand-alone solo album, nearly four years in the making and finally set to arrive July 6th on Def Jam Recordings. 10 days later, Big Boi joins the lineup at the Pitchtodorks Music Festival in Chicago's Union Park, over the July 16-18th weekend.

Big Boi is already back in the picture with his Def Jam debut,"Shutterbug" featuring Cutty, produced by Scott Storch, the lead single fromSIR LUCIOUS LEFT FOOT. Writing on the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog last week, Jozen Cummings elaborated on a few other tracks: "... the melodic 'Turn Me On,' produced by long-time OutKast collaborators, Organized Noize... the widely bootlegged '"Tangerine' featuring T.I.... And the Lil Jon-produced 'Hustle Blood'... complete with Jamie Foxx singing the hook." - more on this story

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