André 3000 has new music within the pipeline, the singer-songwriter and rapper has revealed.
The previous OutKast star, actual title André Benjamin, launched his debut solo album ‘New Blue Solar’ in November final 12 months – if ‘The Love Under’ from OutKast’s 2003 double LP ‘Speakerboxxx/The Love Under’ is discounted – and it stunned some followers by consisting of instrumental flute tracks quite than the funk and jazz-influenced rap of his earlier output.
In an interview with Amazon Music, Benjamin was requested what an “André 3000 imaginative and prescient board” appears like as we enter 2025.
Not commenting on whether or not or not he’d be returning to rap, he replied: “New music for positive, new methods to distribute and categorical … I don’t wanna pinpoint what it’s, however I simply need to categorical extra … put it like that.”
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Over the weekend, Benjamin carried out ‘New Blue Solar’ in a set at Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw competition, and spent the autumn on a US tour, taking in cities together with San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Salt Lake Metropolis. Earlier within the 12 months, he performed just a few exhibits within the UK and Europe, together with at London’s Jazz Cafe, and supported Loyle Carner at his All Factors East present in August.
This month, ‘New Blue Solar’ was nominated for Album Of The Yr and Greatest Different Jazz Album on the Grammys, and its opening monitor, ‘I Swear, I Actually Wished To Make A Rap Album However This Is Actually The Method The Wind Blew Me This Time,’ picked up a Greatest Instrumental Composition nomination too.
Discussing the nominations with the New York Occasions, he admitted: “We have been making an attempt to be nominated in some kind of method for different jazz or ambient, probably. However I used to be completely stunned by this. So yeah, it was tremendous, tremendous, tremendous duper cool.”
Final 12 months, Benjamin mentioned that he thought he’d “aged out” of rap, telling GQ: “Typically it feels inauthentic for me to rap as a result of I don’t have something to speak about in that method. I’m 48 years outdated. And to not say that age is a factor that dictates what you rap about, however in a method 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 will discover cool methods to say it, however….”
He did say that he’d tried to create new rap materials as a soloist, nonetheless, explaining: “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. Even now folks suppose, oh, man, he’s simply sitting on raps, or he’s simply holding these raps hostage. I ain’t received no raps like that.”
