André 3000 Says Rapping At 48 Feels “Inauthentic”: “I Don’t Have Anything To Talk About”
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André 3000 is back, and his new sound has fans slightly confused.
Announcing the first solo project of his career, the 48-year-old revealed that new album New Blue Sun did not contain any lyrics. Known for being one half of the rhyming duo OutKast, the Georgia native detailed why he opted to release a flute album.
“I’ve worked with some of the newest, freshest, youngest, and old-school producers. I get beats all the time. I try to write all the time,” explained the musician to GQ.
“Even now people think, Oh, man, he’s just sitting on raps, or he’s just holding these raps hostage. I ain’t got no raps like that. It actually feels…sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don’t have anything to talk about in that way. I’m 48 years old. And not to say that age is a thing that dictates what you rap about, but in a way it does. And things that happen in my life, like, what are you talking about? I got to go get a colonoscopy? What are you rapping about? My eyesight is going bad?”
New Blue Sun was officially released on Friday (Nov. 17). Described as “a stunning 87-minute mind-bender, minimalist and experimental, tribal and transcendent” the flute album contains eight separate tracks.
Each song has a sentence-length title, such as “I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” and “That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control … Sh¥t Was Wild.”
Listen to New Blue Sun below.
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