Big Boi has announced a limited-edition washing machine that plays the classic Outkast song “So Fresh, So Clean” after each of its cycles.
The legendary rapper teamed up with home appliance brand Whirlpool to give away five limited-edition Whirlpool Front Load Washers that feature the song and a “Certified Fresh and Clean” badge with his signature.
If you’re interested in winning one, you’ll have to hurry. Fans have from Aug. 19 to Sept. 23 to enter the sweepstakes. To enter, you’ll have to follow WhirlpoolUSA on Instagram, find the post announcing the sweepstakes, like it and comment #whirlpoolsofresh. By tagging a friend in the comments, you’ll get an additional sweepstakes entry. If you win, you’ll find out via DM.
In an interview with The Blast, Big Boi explained how the partnership came to be. “They called up and was like, you know, the kings of ‘so fresh, so clean’ and the washing machine kings need to get together,” said Big Boi.
“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,” Big Boi added. “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’s so for the partnership that he even gave a laundry tip that everyone should know. “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,” Big Boi continued. “I was always terrified of bleach when I was young because I just always thought it would tear your clothes up.”
Big Boi and André 3000 (as Outkast) released “So Fresh and Clean” as a single in 2001. It debuted at No. 71 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and would eventually be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2020.
Earlier this year, producer Sleepy Brown revealed that “So Fresh, So Clean” was almost exclusively a Big Boi track because André 3000 didn’t like its original version.
“The funny thing is André didn’t like it at first. André didn’t like that record,” Brown explained to 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. “We thought Dre was going to be happy with it at first, but he really wasn’t.”
Brown added that when bass player Preston Crump added his part to the track, André’s thoughts about it changed for the better.
“When Dre heard that, he got excited and came up with ‘the coolest motherfunkers on the planet’ part,” Brown said. “He was following that line he heard. Thanks to Preston, that’s the reason why Dre even got on that record."