CLEVELAND, Ohio — When Outkast burst out of Atlanta in the mid-’90s, they didn’t just rewrite Southern hip-hop — they redrew the boundaries of the entire genre.

This wasn’t East Coast vs. West Coast anymore.

It was something freer, stranger, and infinitely more imaginative — hip-hop as cosmic philosophy, as social mirror, as pure possibility.

André “3000” Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton were a two-headed force of nature: one a visionary futurist, the other a smooth-talking street poet.

Together, they proved that art could argue and harmonize all at once — that contradiction could be its own kind of truth. Tonight, they joined the musicians they grew up listening to.

Donald “Childish Gambino” Glover inducted the duo into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, calling their sound “something

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