Rap-Up.com || André 3000 Talks Support for Chris Brown and Drake, OutKast’s Future

André 3000 doesn’t do many interviews, but when he does, everyone takes notice. The OutKast recluse, who is readying a solo project, had a lot to say when he phoned into The FADER. Fresh off his collaboration with Gorillaz on the Converse-commissioned “DoYaThing,” Three Stacks spoke at length about how he chooses his collaborations, his support for Chris Brown, being inspired by Drake and Kanye West, why we haven’t seen him in a music video lately, and the uncertainty of a new OutKast album. Read some of the highlights below.

On why he wanted to appear on Chris Brown’s remix to “Deuces”: “Of course I love the beat, but at that time a lot of people were on Chris Brown as a human being. And I know he’d gone through his troubles or whatever and I just was like—I just wanted to stand by him and be like, Hey, you know, you can’t really charge a man forever and condemn a man forever. So it’s really just like a support thing. I thought it was a cool thing to do.”

On being inspired by newcomers like Drake: “Now I talk to Drake, and I know he had to be like 10 when he was listening to what we were doing. You just never know who’s listening until you hear a connection. I didn’t even know Drake dug my music, I just liked him as a rapper because I felt he had a balance. I didn’t even know that he grew up listening to me. But it’s cool to know that it’s a real lineage thing. I’m happy to see Kanye and Wayne and Drake and all these new artists. They inspire me in a way because they reach back and they say, ‘Hey, we want to get you on these songs.’”

On hip-hop’s new generation: “None of us old guys have new flows. None of us. The young guys have the new flows. The only thing that we have is years of experience. That’s all we have.”

On why he hasn’t appeared in music videos for his collaborations: “When I would talk to these artists and we’d agree that we’d do these songs, we would all be in agreement that it was just vocals. There was no visual or anything. Every artist I work with from Beyoncé, from Young Jeezy and Jay-Z, from B.o.B, it was all understood before my first rhyme was written that there was going to be no videos. And I always felt like—you know, I haven’t been in even in a video with Big Boi—it’s kind of disrespectful of me if I can just jump in a video with a new artist and I haven’t even jumped in the video with my own partner.”

On a new OutKast album: “There’s no plans for an OutKast album right now. … If we do another OutKast album one day, I would be super happy. Because I’ll know that the vibe is right, and we’ll put our all into it. But if we never do another OutKast album, you know, I won’t be sad because we’ve been blessed.”

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16 Comments

Fresh Tone
March 5th, 2012 at 11:50 am
can’t wait for the solo project

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reasonable doubt Reply:
March 6th, 2012 at 5:36 am
@Fresh Tone, Class Act

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DRB
March 5th, 2012 at 11:56 am
Solo project or OutKast album. I’ve been waiting since 2006.

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Audrey Hepburn
March 5th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
That’s odd. Why would those artists tell him there weren’t going to be any music videos for the songs and then proceed to make them anyway? Sound strange.

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CarlosBonegro Reply:
March 5th, 2012 at 12:48 pm
@Audrey Hepburn, because he probably meant they agreed that he wouldnt appear in the video thats all its not his songs he cant decide if they do a video or not

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Blaze
March 5th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
Its solo album is gon be the shit I still play the love below

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ms_ta_ta Reply:
March 5th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
@Blaze, me too!!! One of my favorite albums period.

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Lauryn
March 5th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
He Held The Deuces Remix Down.

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CarlosBonegro
March 5th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
LEGENDS

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J
March 5th, 2012 at 1:53 pm
I don’t understand needed so much time off. Get back in the studio or make an entire album or ep with the gorillaz. A legend but at the same time lame for the hiatus. I have lost all hope for an outlast album its just not happening and if it did I don’t know that it would have the impact that an album in the last 3 years would have. Same with dr dre, a legend and his music still all over my iTunes but nobody should seriously be holding out for detox. Having to wait I think killed my interest in both these projects. Reading this it doesn’t sound like much to get excited about. Sad I love doyathing so much, especially 3 stacks though everyone killed deuses remix. Kanye most to me, that drake diss was classic

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J
March 5th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I would hope a release window for the solo album was at least hinted. That is a lot of why I’m doubtful. Phone errors above

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Guccesha Ivy
March 5th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
sound strange Hope he relase an album

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Yeah
March 5th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
respect for supporting breezy

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Lisa
March 6th, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Love this guy and can’t wait for his music. Not too happy about his attitude towards Breezy but I guess that’s his personal choice.

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Anthony C
March 7th, 2012 at 8:34 am
“The Love Below” is one of the best album til today. It lines up with “Thriller” and I’m a huge Michael Jackson fan.

Andre just has this appeal and eccentricity to him that other others artists appreciate. I certainly do.

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Nguyen-Luan Reply:
March 9th, 2012 at 2:48 am
@Anthony C,

Yeah that Speakerboxxx/The Love Below went diamond.

Along with their other albums’s success, you can understand Andre 3000′s view on making another album.
Its fitting people call him a poet.

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