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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

[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 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.

[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`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.