You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
Big Boi is a rapper from Atlanta.
When he was a teenager,
he and Andre 3000 formed Outkast and went on to sell over 25 million records and win six Grammys.
He's released three solo albums, including Boomiverse, which came out in 2017.
In this episode, Big Boy breaks down a song from that album called Order of Operations.
Go hard, go home, wake up, repeat.
Order of Operations.
My name is Big Boy, a.k.a.
Daddy Fat Sacks, a.k.a.
Sir Lucius L. Left Foot.
The L stands for lavender because the ladies like to put lip gloss on my lapel.
That's my name.
During the course of me recording Boomerverse,
I would kind of break up my recording sessions between Stankonia,
my studio, and I would record at a studio in L.A. as well.
So this happened to be on one of my trips to L.A. I would have, you know,