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Last year Atlanta's Organized Noize cartel completed its campaign of
hip hop conquest with OutKast's acclaimed and best-selling
Aquemini. But in a world where new albums often gestate for
years, the Dirty Southerners worried the world might forget
them. Hence the undeniable Big Boi & Dre Present
. . . OutKast greatest-hits collection (Arista). And hence
. . . Even in Darkness (Arista), in which OutKast,
Goodie Mob, and such allies and satellites as Backbone, Witchdoctor,
and Bubba Sparxx coalesce into the newly dubbed Dungeon
Family. Between its infectious spirit and its singular sonics, this
impressive stopgap cements Organized Noize's claim to reincarnate
Parliament-Funkadelic. Amid a profusion of excellent rappers, the
vocal standout is Goodie Mob's high-voiced Cee-Lo. But as with P-Funk,
the real star is an instantly identifiable groove as welcoming and
complicated as any verbal interaction.
On her second album, Missundazstood (Arista), Philadelphia's Pink proves herself a woman among girls. An MTV staple whose commercial turf is teenpop, Pink collaborated for many of these songs with Linda Perry of the long-gone 4 Non Blondes. It's her strength and our luck that she dominates a rock move clearly initiated so she could write midtempo personal meditations, an approach she brings off with gratifying candor and pungency.
Playboy, Dec. 2001
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