Last week, Big Boi was honored at Prriya and Chintans Couture, a swanky boutique in Atlanta. But instead of being presented an award for his multi-platinum, revolutionary work with OutKast, Big Boi was presented a $50,000 Nike So Cal 1 sneaker dripping in chocolate champagne diamonds from India. Proceeds from the night went to Big Boi's Big Kidz Foundation, a non-profit organization geared towards the intellectual development of kids.

VIBE was onhand to chat with rap's busiest emcee about new projects and a potential Outkast reunion.

Speakerboxx was my first solo album, so just imagine what this is going to sound like.

VIBE: What's the status of the Big Boi solo album, Sir Luscious Left Foot?

BIG BOI: It's coming along great, man. I'm going to put 12 songs on there, I'm finished with like nine right now. Production is by Organized Noize. Speakerboxx was my first solo album, so just imagine what this is going to sound like. I'm very excited about it, and we just putting it together right now. I plan on releasing a single on December 31 at midnight going into the New Year, cause I want all the stuff to be '08, everything to be brand new. It's going to be a lot of surprises. We just really trying to bring that [good] music back.

Will you and Andre 3000 package your solo albums together this time?

No, not this time. This time we're going to go for what we know. We're going to give it to [fans] separate. I'm going to do mine, Dre's going to do his, then we're going to put the Outkast record out after that.

Are you working on any more films?

Yeah, matter of fact Who's Your Caddy? just came out on DVD. It's doing real real good for us. I got a couple of other movies in the works right now, but you know with the writer's strike out there in L.A., things are kind of on hold right now, so we just doing the music right now... shaping up for 2008.