Big Boi is taking laundry day to the next level with a special collab. The Outkast legend has unveiled a limited-edition Whirlpool washing machine that blasts the group’s classic hit “So Fresh, So Clean” at the end of every cycle.
The rapper partnered with Whirlpool to create just five of these exclusive Front Load Washers, each marked with a “Certified Fresh and Clean” badge featuring his signature.
Fans eager to snag one can enter the sweepstakes between Aug. 19 and Sept. 23. All you have to do is follow @WhirlpoolUSA on Instagram, track down the sweepstakes post, like it, and comment #whirlpoolsofresh. Tagging a friend in the comments scores you an extra entry. Winners will be notified through DM.
In a chat with The Blast, Big Boi broke down how the Whirlpool partnership came together. “They called up and was like, you know, the kings of ‘so fresh, so clean’ and the washing machine kings need to get together,” he said.
“We are on theme, we are on code, we got the same mission — to be the cleanest that we can be and the freshest we can be, and they was like, we want to put your song on the new Whirlpool washing machine,” he continued. “I thought it was just a chime, but they have the original track playing at the end of the wash cycle, so I was like, oh man, that’s dope, I gotta do it.”
Big Boi was so into the collab he even dropped a laundry gem: “Don’t wash white socks with black t-shirts. I just learned this lesson,” he admitted. “Maybe a couple weeks ago, a couple months ago, I started doing laundry, it’s kind of therapeutic when I’m at home, and my mom showed me how to put bleach in and to make my socks back white. I was always terrified of bleach when I was young because I just always thought it would tear your clothes up.”
Outkast originally released “So Fresh, So Clean” in 2001, and while it debuted at No. 71 on the Billboard Hot 100, it went on to become a platinum-certified hit by 2020.
Producer Sleepy Brown once revealed that the track almost ended up as a Big Boi solo cut because André 3000 wasn’t a fan of its early version. “The funny thing is André didn’t like it at first. André didn’t like that record,” Brown told SPIN. “It wasn’t like he didn’t think it was good — it just wasn’t matching where he was. We really just did it for Big.
“We knew André was moving to something else, but we knew on that album it needed that hood theme. When Big heard it, he loved it,” Brown added. Things shifted once bass player Preston Crump laid his part down.
“When Dre heard that, he got excited and came up with ‘the coolest motherfunkers on the planet’ part,” Brown recalled. “He was following that line he heard. Thanks to Preston, that’s the reason why Dre even got on that record.”
