If it feels like it’s been eons since the last OutKast record, that’s because – well – it has. Six years, anyway, since the release of the all-conquering Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, and over three years since the group’s last official project, the soundtrack to their own Idlewild film.

Rumours of a new LP are flying after Big Boi, one half of the hip hop duo, mentioned the possibility of a new OutKast album following the release of his solo effort early in 2010, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. If nothing else, it has a ridiculously fantastic title. An Andre 3000 project will also, apparently, follow.

“This is all in the next year or so,” Big Boi told Billboard,  “starting with my album coming at the top of the year, Dre 3000 right after me…and when the solo albums come out, depending on how the fans support them, then we’re gonna give them the Outkast album.”

Well, let’s hope these two solo records sell well, then.