André 3000 on his new flute music: “I actually don’t know what I’m doing”
nme.comAndré 3000 has admitted that, when it comes to his new musical direction, he’s making it up as he goes along.The OutKast rapper dropped a surprise project in November last year, marking his first solo album in 17 years.
But upon its release, fans were surprised to discover that rather than the rap album they had been anticipating, it was an 87-minute ambient flute record.Explaining the new creative direction of ‘New Blue Sun’, he admitted he felt he’d aged out of the genre that kick-started his career: “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?” he continued. “‘I got to go get a colonoscopy’.
What are you rapping about? ‘My eyesight is going bad’. You can find cool ways to say it, but….”Now, André 3000 has shared that his unexpected pivot to instrumental flute wasn’t as calculated as it may have seemed.
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