Outkast - The Way You Move ft. Sleepy Brown

What this video is

Released August 25, 2003, as Big Boi's lead single from Speakerboxxx — the Big Boi half of Outkast's landmark double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below — 'The Way You Move' represents the commercial pinnacle of Atlanta Southern hip-hop's crossover moment. The song blends bass music, Atlanta-style hip-hop, and 1970s soul, with Sleepy Brown's vocals channeling Marvin Gaye and the horn section evoking Earth, Wind &…

Why it matters

A definitive artifact of early-2000s Southern hip-hop's mainstream breakthrough, 'The Way You Move' fuses Atlanta street culture, neo-soul, and funk production in a way that widened hip-hop's pop crossover bandwidth. Its video, paired with 'Hey Ya!', established a new model of dual-single…

The director

Bryan Barber (born December 20, 1970) is an American music video and motion picture director. Raised in East Palo Alto and Sacramento, CA, he graduated from Clark Atlanta University in 1996. He directed his first Outkast video in 1998 and became known for…