Do kids even know why you had to shake it?

December 13, 2003
Shake it like a polaroid!

Outkast’s single Hey Ya! hit #1 on the Billboard charts on this date.

Andre 3000 wrote the first version of the song around 1999, and it almost made it onto their 2000 album Stankonia. At the time the song was called Thank God For Mom And Dad. He started working on it again in 2002, doing lots of experimentation along the way. A lot of lyrics he wrote for the song didn’t make the cut.

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