VICIOUS LIES AND DANGEROUS RUMORS is Big Boi's long-awaited follow-up to Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty, his first stand-alone solo album, released July 2010 since leaving Outkast behind him. The album spun off Big Boi's first Def Jam single, the Top 15 R&B hit "Shutterbug" featuring Cutty, produced by Scott Storch. Big Boi issued two street singles in early 2012: "She Said Okay" featuring Theophilus London (produced by Chris Carmouche and Big Boi) and "Gossip" featuring UGK and Big K.R.I.T. (produced by Organized Noize, Chris Carmouche and Big Boi). Spin described the music as "hard-charging and lyrically deft. Boi is as nimble as ever."

Big Boi (Antwan André Patton) made history with OutKast from their debut, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994, recorded when Big Boi was still a teenager) to their 2003 swan song, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. The landmark double-CD, their 5th studio album, containing solo albums by Big Boi and his partner André 3000, respectively. One of the biggest-selling hip-hop albums in history - 11-times platinum in the U.S., over 15 million worldwide - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below generated three Grammy Awards® (including Best Rap Album and Album Of the Year) and spun off two life-changing #1 hit singles, André 3000's "Hey Ya!"and Big Boi's "The Way You Move" (with Sleepy Brown).