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==Legacy== {{Quote box|quoted=true|salign=right|width=25em|align=right|''Aquemini'' is a hip-hop classic that pushes the limits of what we normally consider hip-hop, yet is decidedly true to its roots.|source=— [[AllHipHop]], on the album's legacy<ref name="AllHipHop">{{cite web|url=http://allhiphop.com/2008/03/27/aquemini-outkast-takes-a-stand/|title=Aquemini: OutKast Takes A Stand!!|author=Odeisel and OutKast|publisher=[[AllHipHop]]|date=March 27, 2008 |access-date=September 13, 2013}}</ref>}} Critics hailed the recording as OutKast's most fully realized up to that time and one of the best of the 1990s.<ref>{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook, Volume 65|author=The University of Michigan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5osYAAAAIAAJ&q=Aquemini+t+as+a+virtuosic+masterpiece,+and+a|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=433|year=2004}}</ref> Steve Huey wrote: "''Aquemini'' fulfills all its ambitions, covering more than enough territory to qualify it as a virtuosic masterpiece, and a landmark hip-hop album of the late '90s".<ref name=Allmusic/> ''[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]'' observed that ''Aquemini'' is "perhaps OutKast's best effort" and "a huge commercial and artistic success".<ref>{{cite journal|title=Southern Fried Hip-Hop|journal=[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZNYDAAAAMBAJ&q=outkast+aquemini+best+album&pg=PA74|date=January 2004|access-date=September 13, 2013}}</ref> Matt Wink concluded that OutKast with this album "carved their place in the game and grabbed the world's attention. No two people with a similar background could be more different and no two artists could have made this masterpiece."<ref name="Popstache">{{cite web|url=http://popstache.com/features/old-stache/outkast-aquemini-album-review/|title=Out from the Dungeon: Aquemini Made OutKast the Pride of the South|first=Matt|last=Wink|website=Popstache|date=November 29, 2011|access-date=September 13, 2013}}</ref> ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' labeled the album "OutKast's third brilliant slice of hip-hop".<ref name="LA Times"/> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' wrote that "Atlanta's reputation as hip-hop's most avant-garde area code – the Long Island of the Nineties – was cemented" with this effort,<ref name="Rolling"/> while Troy L. Smith of ''[[Cleveland.com]]'' said it was "a true game-changer for [Southern hip hop] and Outkast".<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Troy L.|date=April 21, 2020|url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/04/100-greatest-hip-hop-albums-of-the-1990s.html|title=100 greatest hip hop albums of the 1990s|website=[[Cleveland.com]]|access-date=August 21, 2021}}</ref> In a column for ''[[Jazz Times]]'', Tony Green wrote that "OutKast's ''Aquemini'' dispels any notion that hip-hop is out of sonic ideas. If anything, it shows that the genre's appetite for new sounds is as ravenous as ever."<ref>{{cite web|last=Green|first=Tony|title=OutKast: Aquemini|url=http://jazztimes.com/articles/9001-aquemini-outkast|work=[[Jazz Times]]|date=March 1999|access-date=September 14, 2013}}</ref> According to Emma Warren from ''[[The Guardian]]'', this album is "a high point of 90s hip-hop" and proof that "the old push and pull between the east and west coast of American hip-hop was over".<ref name=Guardian>{{cite web|last=Warren|first=Emma|title=My favourite album: Aquemini by OutKast|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/oct/12/favourite-album-aquemini-outkast|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=October 12, 2011|access-date=September 14, 2013}}</ref> Tim Stelloh of [[PopMatters]] felt that "''Aquemini'' far surpassed OutKast's previous release ''A-tliens'' {{sic}}, and made the group one of those rare commercial anomalies—kind of like [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], [[Rage Against the Machine]], or [[Public Enemy]]".<ref name="Popmatters"/> Several reviewers of [[Kendrick Lamar]]'s ''[[Good Kid, M.A.A.D City]]'' (2012) perceived influence from ''Aquemini'' in the record's production and aesthetic.<ref>{{cite web|author=Marcus J. Moore|date=October 22, 2012|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/b4nv|title=Review of Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city|publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=November 25, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Dan Jackson|date=October 31, 2012|url=http://www.cmj.com/reviews/kendrick-lamar-good-kid-m-a-a-d-city/|title=Review: Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city (Interscope)|journal=[[CMJ]]|access-date=November 25, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108071116/http://www.cmj.com/reviews/kendrick-lamar-good-kid-m-a-a-d-city/|archive-date=November 8, 2012}}</ref>
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