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It's not like every song is about the movie. The movie is based on relationships: with your family, the most high, your business relationships. The album is about everything, not just relationships.

(It influenced the music) in our own little way, just with the Ragtime feel. It's Hip-Hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years. Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD. It was like, where do we go from here?,

It took me weeks to finish my part on the song. The track has been around for a minute. It used to be, like, a rock track '” Dre flipped the track to make it more Dirty South.

(Referring to his successful Atlanta-based dog breeding business, Big Boi explained the name of the label:) My 'Purple Ribbon' dogs have a strong blood line that goes back three generations. I want to put out potent funk music. Purple Ribbon is gonna be so strong you can smell it. ... This is a Big Boi thang, not an OutKast thang. I'm doing films, but music is my first love.

It's not like every song is about the movie, ... The movie is based on relationships: with your family, the most high, your business relationships. The album is about everything, not just relationships.

It's cool to have somebody that you know sitting in a power position. ... He can make things happen in a timely fashion just by pushing buttons and that's what I've been waiting for.

I want to call Virgin home, and Purple Ribbon is the means for me to do that

I called Jermaine (Dupri, artist/producer and head of black music at Virgin), and it was on.

People been saying 'musical,' ... It's not like (in the movie) I'm talking and then start singing; it's a film with musical parts in it. It has brand-new Outkast songs, and it also has music from the Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below album incorporated into it as well. (The film) comes out anywhere between November and January.

Just with the Ragtime feel. It's hip-hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years. Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD. It was like, where do we go from here?