Ghetto Musick / Prototype

"Ghetto Musick" / "Prototype"
Single by OutKast
from the album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Released 2004
Format CD
Recorded 2003
Genre Southern hip hop, R&B
Length 3:56 ("Ghetto Musick")
5:26 ("Prototype")
Label LaFace Records/Arista Records
Writer(s) OutKast
Producer André 3000
OutKast singles chronology
"Roses"
(2004)		 "Ghetto Musick" / "Prototype"
(2004)		 "Mighty O"
(2006)
Alternative cover
"Ghetto Musick" single, B-sided with "She Lives in My Lap"

"GhettoMusick" / "Prototype" is the fourth and final single to be released from hip-hop duo OutKast's fifth studio album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. "Ghetto Musick" (also written as one word, "Ghettomusick") can be found on Disc 1 (Speakerboxxx) and "Prototype" can be found on Disc 2 (The Love Below.) GhettoMusick was featured on the soundtrack for the video game NBA Live 2004.

Contents

Song information

"Ghetto Musick" is found on Big Boi's disc Speakerboxxx. The song was released in the UK as the first single from the album. It peaked at #55 on the UK Singles Chart. It was later released elsewhere as a double A-side single with "Prototype". The song samples vocals from Patti LaBelle's "Love, Need and Want You". LaBelle also appears in the video lip syncing to her vocals. "Prototype" is found on André 3000's disc The Love Below, and was released as a double A-side single with "Ghetto Musick". It did not receive as much promotion as "Ghetto Musick," only being promoted with its double A-side single release and its music video.

Music videos

The music video for "Ghetto Musick" featured Big Boi during his daily routine as a "Delivery Boi" for Fed Up, a deliberate reference to FedEx. He eats lunch at Patti LaBelle's house, delivers packages to a sorority house-- a group of gang members he evades a fight with and an attractive female who tries to sleep with him before her husband arrives with a bat. It's mostly comedic and meant to reflect a Southern environment, including fictional exaggerations of Southern culture such as a "Fish and Grits" restaurant. The video for "Prototype" has a white-haired Andre 3000, who, after landing on Earth with other interstellar travelers, falls in love with a woman in an idyllic rural area.[1]

Track listings

UK CD1
  1. "Prototype" (UK radio edit) – 3:53
  2. "Ghetto Musick" (radio edit) – 3:56
UK CD2
  1. "Prototype" (album version) – 5:26
  2. "Ghetto Musick" (Benny Benassi Club Mix) – 6:00
  3. "Spread" – 3:51
  4. "Unhappy" – 3:56
UK CD single
  1. "Ghetto Musick" (radio edit) – 3:56
  2. "Ghetto Musick" (Benny Benassi Club Mix) – 6:00
UK 7" vinyl single
  1. "Prototype" (UK radio edit) – 3:53
  2. "Prototype" (instrumental) – 5:26
UK 12" vinyl single
  1. "Prototype" – 5:26
  2. "Ghetto Musick" – 3:56
  3. "Unhappy" – 3:56
  4. "Prototype" (instrumental) – 5:26
USA 12" vinyl single
  1. "Ghetto Musick" (radio edit) – 3:56
  2. "Ghetto Musick" (Benny Benassi Club Mix) – 6:00
  3. "Ghetto Musick" (instrumental) – 3:56
  4. "She Lives in My Lap" (radio edit) – 4:11
  5. "She Lives in My Lap" (Club Mix) – 11:12
  6. "She Lives in My Lap" (Instrumental) – 4:11

Chart positions

Chart Peak
position
Australian ARIA Charts 43
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[2] 152
UK Singles Chart 21
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 931
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs 632

1 "Ghetto Musick"
2 "Prototype"

External links

References

  1. ^ Vineyard, Jennifer. Outkast Tell Otherworldly Love Story In 'Prototype' Clip. MTV. Retrieved on 2010-05-24.
  2. ^ "Finnishcharts.com – OUTKAST – PROTOTYPE". Suomen virallinen lista. Hung Medien.
OutKast
Studio albums
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994) · ATLiens (1996) · Aquemini (1998) · Stankonia (2000) · Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003) · Idlewild (2006)
Other albums
Big Boi and Dre Present...OutKast (2001) · Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010) · Whatubeenwaitin4 (2010)  · Daddy Fat Saxxx: Soul Funk Crusader (2012)
Singles
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