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André 3000 is aware of everybody was ready on him to make his long-awaited solo rap album however tells GQ it felt “inauthentic”.
Sometimes issues don’t go as deliberate and that appears to be the premise for André 3000 and his new challenge New Blue Sun. Fans have been begging for brand spanking new verses from the Southern legend for years. When Drake leaked his verse on Kanye West’s “Life of The Party” it heightened the requires a correct solo album. Yet, right here we’re in 2023 and all André has for anybody is an instrumental album.
However, he guarantees he tried to do this factor folks love him for however adopted his coronary heart.
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According to GQ, André 3000 is being as uncooked as doable about making raps and the way inauthentic it feels to him.
“Sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap”- stated the ATLien. “I’ve labored with a few of the latest, freshest, youngest, and old-school producers. I get beats on a regular basis. I attempt to write on a regular basis.” But rap shouldn’t be what comes, he says. “Even now folks assume, Oh, man, he’s simply sitting on raps, or he’s simply holding these raps hostage. I ain’t received no raps like that. It really feels…typically it feels inauthentic for me to rap as a result of I don’t have something to speak about in that means. I’m 48 years previous. And to not say that age is a factor that dictates what you rap about, however in a means it does. And issues that occur in my life, like, what are you speaking about? ‘I received to go get a colonoscopy.’ What are you rapping about? ‘My eyesight goes dangerous.’ You can discover cool methods to say it, however….”
Rap is a younger man’s sport, everyone knows this however there’s area for older legends within the recreation. Everyone has a imaginative and prescient for getting on however not often one for the aftermath following excessive success and creative creation. Also within the GQ Men of the Year video cowl André breaks down the dangers of giving up the normalcy he regained after Outkast by releasing new music.
“I keep in mind a pair weeks in the past speaking to my supervisor and publicist,” he stated. “I used to be like, I actually need to ask myself, do I wanna be simply on the market once more? To do the run, to do the PR? I actually needed to ask myself. And I truthfully don’t. I actually get pleasure from my life. I like having the ability to do what I would like as a civilian. But on the identical time, I wanna promote the music. So I’m truthfully doing it to advertise the music. This ain’t no flex.”
For context, his GQ video cowl was recorded whereas the famous person was on the laundromat doing his laundry. Something he does on the common with out points or fanfare. Surprisingly 3stacks compares changing into well-known to experiencing trauma which can be one of the best examples we’ve heard.
“I believe that will have been a traumatic type of factor,” he instructed Baron. “Because it’s actually unnatural to have that a lot consideration as a human or to have that a lot expectation as a human. I needed to modify to folks filming you on a regular basis or coming as much as you.”
Let’s pray no matter itch positioned this instrumental wind-filled album on his coronary heart is scratched come midnight. Regardless of what folks needed from him, André 3000 is delivering a breath of contemporary air. Honestly, this shock instrumental album appears extra on-brand than any rap album.
You can watch GQ’s full 33-minute dialog with André Benjamin beneath.
First seem at André 3000 Reveals Why He Didn’t Make A Rap Album — ‘Sometimes It Feels Inauthentic For Me To Rap’
