The double platinum, Grammy award winning, untouchable duo known as OutKast is experiencing some delays in releasing their highly anticipated album and movie titled, “Idlewild.”

Universal Pictures has pushed the release date back twice in four months, supposedly to allow the CD to be released around the same time as the movie. What’s the hold up?

“We don’t want to rush. Film is a new thing for us,” Andre “3000″ Benjamin told Entertainment Weekly.

Antwan “Big Boi” Patton said at the Vibe awards: “The album will appear some time in the first quarter of 2006.”

However, a label representative revealed there is no confirmed date as of yet. One thing is for sure: these aren’t your typical OutKast headlines.

Since their debut in the mid 1990s, OutKast has quickly become a “Southernplayalistic” hip-hop duo that makes unprecedented videos, singles and albums that have everyone “shakin’ like a Polaroid picture.” Therefore, at this stage of their careers they have the right to want to uphold that reputation and give the fans their best.

“[We] want to make sure the album is an OutKast album, not some stuff they throw out with the movie,” Andre 3000 added in his EW interview.

Big Boi clarified Andre 3000’s statement:

“This is an OutKast album. It isn’t a soundtrack where we go get this person or that person.”

So what exactly is “Idlewild?”

The movie follows the lives of two “Southern speakeasy performers” played by Andre 3000 and Big Boi.

Though originally made for HBO, Universal picked up the product late summer of 2005. But now what?

The movie was first scheduled to be released in March 2006, but now the new movie has been pushed back until Aug. 25. Big Boi assures fans they should not be worried about the delay.

He explained to Billboard Magazine that it takes him and his partner Andre 3000 a couple of years to get the music right. He told reporters that there was no music in the beginning of the project, and that most of the music came after the movie was finished.

A late August release date could signal a movie flop according to some experts. However, Big Boi attributed the later release because of the studio’s request for the film to be on the maximum number of screens.

OutKast collectively agreed and made the decision to wait and back their decision 100 percent. To sum, Big Boi stated in Billboard:

“Being that we waited, the music is incredible now. Me and Dre are both pleased with it. We’re 95 percent done with it. I think the world’s going to be shocked.”