Bohemianism

Or was the beard an outbreak of summer bohemianism that hits middle-aged men on their holidays?

Outkast met at Fulton County’s Tri-Cities High in the early ’90s, where André’s Prince-inspired bohemianism complemented Big Boi’s more formalist but ambitious rapping.

“Bohemianism is a useful way for a person to drop out of the class wars of America,” he told Ploughshares.

His biographer, Meryle Secrest, explains his drug and alcohol use as an attempt to alleviate or conceal the symptoms of his illness rather than a manifestation of unbridled Bohemianism.

Expect depictions of free-love style social encounters, Greek philosophy and bohemianism.