3:01 Pick Me Up: Outkast

Unless you have the good fortune to be unemployed or working as a ditch-digger, 3 p.m. is the cruelest time of the workday. The morning latte has worn off, and the post-lunch crash has you desperately reaching for the J. Peterman Urban Sombrero. To get you through the rest of the afternoon, you have a choice. You can raid the vending machine for an old-fashioned (not to mention life-shortening) white-sugar injection. Or you can kick-start your heart by cueing up one of the over-adrenalized videos we carefully hand-select each weekday at 3:01 p.m. If the following clip doesn’t bring you temporarily back to life, chances are you’re dead inside. Now plug in those earphones and fucking crank it.

Today's offering: Outkast's "B.O.B." (aka "Bombs Over Baghdad") is most definitely not a political song, even if the title suggests otherwise. Only Andre 3000 and Big Boi really know what the hell it's supposed to be about, but it's got a good beat and you can get crunk to it.

And remember, kids: don't pull the thang out unless you plan to bang.

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