Big Boi

Big Boi, aka Antwan André Patton, was born on February 1, 1975 in Savannah, Georgia. He spent the first half of his childhood attending Herschel V. Jenkins High School before moving to Atlanta, where he met André Benjamin, a.k.a Andre 3000. The two eventually joined forces as OutKast and signed with LaFace Records.

After four increasingly successful albums as a duo, André 3000 decided to make a solo album as a side project. Big Boi also produced a solo effort, and the two albums were packaged together as "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" in 2003. Big Boi’s single from the album, "The Way You Move," featuring Sleepy Brown, was originally supported by urban radio then crossed over to pop charts. When “The Way You Move” supplanted Hey Ya! as the #1 song on the U.S. pop charts, OutKast achieved the rare honor of a group replacing itself at the top of the charts. The second single from Big Boi’s side of the album was "Ghetto Musick," which featured André 3000 and a sample from Patti LaBelle’s "Love, Need And Want You."

Big Boi released a mixtape/compilation album, “Got Purp? Vol 2,” in conjunction with the Purple Ribbon All-Stars in November 2005 on Purple Ribbon Records. The first single from the album was “Kryptonite,” which cracked the Billboard Hot 100 and was a hit on hip hop radio.

Big Boi is married to Sherlita Patton, with whom he has two children: a daughter, Jordan, and a son , Bamboo. His oldest son, Antwan Jr., is from a prior relationship. Numerous references to the Patton family are present in Big Boi’s rhymes.