Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is two solo albums in one sleeve, and it has two covers to match. Big Boi was photographed by Jonathan Mannion, André 3000 by the fashion photographer Torkil Gudnason, in separate shoots. Jeff Schulz handled art direction and design, with creative direction by Joe Mama-Nitzberg. On the CD, Big Boi takes the front and André the back; digital and vinyl editions place the two images side by side.

Mannion listened to all of Speakerboxxx and sketched ideas from its lyrics. Big Boi sits in a fur coat and baggy jeans in a rattan chair trimmed with feather dusters, a pose drawn from the 1967 photograph of Huey P. Newton published in The Black Panther. The team avoided building the scene in post-production. They gathered about fifteen speaker boxes around Atlanta and borrowed record crates from DJ Cutmaster Swift, and a live rooster joined the set for the song "The Rooster". André's side is pink and theatrical: he poses with a gun as Cupid Valentino, the lover-gangster of his half, shot with a fashion editor's eye.

The split image told the story of the record before a note was heard. The two had been photographed apart amid creative differences, and the packaging made that distance part of the concept. Critic Brandon Soderberg credited André's flamboyant styling with encouraging later rappers to wear more feminine clothes. The album won the Grammy for Album of the Year. It was released on 23 September 2003.