Sad news for die hard Outkast fans today,  Big Boi is working on what he calls his "mega, top-top-secret solo record".  On the set of Fantasia's Hood Boy video, Big Boi aka Antwan Patton talks about the record he's working on.  "You're going to get something from every genre, every funk, beat, loop, horn, whistle. We got it all onthe record , I got maybe 35 beats already done for it now, so I'm just diving in and trying to carve out the pie with the vocals."

People who enjoyed Speakerboxxx should expect a lot of the same from Patton, who will still be working alongside his longtime collaborator Andre 3000 Benjamin and producers' of Organized Noize, saying "I'm going to try to keep it in-house".

He's trying to finish the album in 2007, but his budding acting career is distracting him a bit as he is working alongside Cedric the Entertainer, Faizon Love, Andy Milinokis and Finesse Mitchell in Who's Your Caddy,  "It's about a music mogul who tries to play golf in this exclusive golf community, I go inside this country club and buy this huge house, and the 17th hole just happens to be on my property, so they got to let me in. There's a lot of antics with them trying to get me kicked out and things like that. It's seriously funny."

Big Boi actually learned golf and polo for the role — some of the perks of his second career. "Acting is great, man," he said. "I've been getting offers for years, but music has always been the first love. But now that I got time to step back from everything and take a breather, I can pick and choose roles and take them as they come."

Meanwhile, Idlewild will be available on DVD December 5th.  Also, there's another new uncharted route for the duo "The thing that people don't know is that we were switched over to a new record label, going from Arista to Jive," (obviously most famously known now for doing the Clipse boys dirty) Big Boi said of the soundtrack, which doubled as Outkast's follow-up to Speakerboxxx/ The Love Below. "And Jive, they put their best foot forward, but I don't think they really understand our music and know how to work our music. We're still doing what we did 13 years ago. If you listen to the Idlewild album, the quality of music is there. Everything is there. It's just a new system and trying to get used to things. But hey, we got songs for days."  (Sound familiar?)

Not good for the ATLiens out there, hopefully Jive learned their lesson.