The two members of the rap group Outkast conceived and produced the new film Idlewild.
The duo also throws in a handful of references engineered to make the informed listener feel smart: the sample of Masta Ace's minor hit "Born to Roll, " the interpolation of the hook to OutKast's "Elevators (Me and You), " numerous allusions to A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory.
"All of the defendants have the greatest respect for Rosa Parks, but their music, like poetry, is protected by the First Amendment, " says Joseph Beck, a lawyer representing the Atlanta-based OutKast.
But U.S. District Judge Barbara Hackett ruled Thursday that the group's right to use Parks' name is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution and that OutKast does not have to compensate her.
And urban artists have dominated the charts, with hip-hop duo OutKast recently spending two months at numbers one and two in the singles chart and on top of the albums chart.
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Parks, whose attorney characterizes the song as vulgar and profane, sued the duo in March, saying OutKast used her name without permission.
Andre Benjamin is best-known as half of the Grammy Award-winning duo OutKast.
Like this next OutKast album will be the soundtrack to a film that's starring myself and Big Boi, and it's a 1930s period piece, like a musical.
At night, new clubs offer first-listens of what could become the next big hip-hop track, Atlanta being the home turf of stars like Usher and Outkast.
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Since then, holding the top two spot has become almost common - Outkast did it, then Mariah Carey, then Akon, and now T.
Reid, who helped make international stars out of Usher, Pink, OutKast and Toni Braxton on LaFace Records and then helped resurrect the career of Mariah Carey and signed Justin Beiber to Island Def Jam, is currently the head of Epic Records.
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