Outkast are a quintessentially Atlanta group, forming in Georgia’s capital city in 1992. Its 16-year-old members, boys who would later come to be known as Big Boi and André 3000, met in a shopping mall there.
Both Big Boi and Dré went to high school in Atlanta, but only one of them had actually spent their entire childhoods there. André was Atlanta through and through, born and raised there, but Big Boi had arrived late.
His early childhood had actually been spent in Savannah, another Georgia city near the South Carolina border…