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Prototype
Outkast
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- Album
- Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
- Released
- 2003
- Genres
- southern hip hop, hip hop
- Length
- 5:26
- Tempo
- 76 BPM
- Label
- Arista
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About this song
"Prototype" was released as a single by André 3000 alongside Big Boi's "GhettoMuzick", serving as the final singles from OutKast's double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. The funk guitar ballad has since been covered by several artists, including DRAM and Tame Impala. André directed the music video himself.
What it's about
In the music video, André plays an alien, or ATLien, who lands on Earth, falls in love with a woman and changes his life for her by the end. André described the video as a magic realist love story rather than an ordinary one.
Fun facts
- Sampled in 8 other songs, like “The Remedy by ZAVAGE”.
- Covered 5 times, including “Prototype - triple j Like A Version by Tame Impala”.
- Written and produced by André 3000.
- Recorded at Stankonia Recording (Atlanta.