André 3000 says his deviation from hip-hop wasn’t deliberate

Final yr, former Outkast member André 3000 launched his first solo album of all time however shocked followers by dropping an eight-track instrumental venture comprised of unique flute compositions.  

The album, entitled New Blue Sun, shocked and barely disenchanted followers who have been wanting ahead to a return of the rapping André 3000 of the 2000s. Nevertheless, throughout a latest efficiency of the LP, he let the gang know that his deviation from hip-hop wasn’t a deliberate transfer. 

André 3000 (actual identify André Benjamin) just lately delivered a recital of the venture on the Luna Luna artwork exhibition in Los Angeles. Following the occasion, a fan-captured video of the efficiency circulated on social media, and the lyricist defined why New Blue Solar got here to fruition. 

Talking to the gang, Benjamin addressed the response to the venture, stating, “‘How you just gon’ be rapping and then just get on stage playing fucking flutes? Like, I didn’t plan to be the flute n*gga,”

He continued, “I didn’t plan to be that. It just kinda, like, it happened. When I started rapping, I didn’t know what it would be. It was just me and Big Boi at the crib watching rap videos. Then we was like, ‘Let’s try it.’ I know we have plans. I know we go to school. We have intentions, we plan for things – but we all freestyling. We all making this shit up as we go along. We have intentions, but we don’t really know.”

He defined that all the music he made was accidentally and that he had at all times simply gone with the movement. Earlier this yr, in an interview with Excessive Snobiety, André 3000 recalled Large Boi’s response to New Blue Solar.

Explaining how there have been no qualms from his longtime good friend and collaborator, Benjamin detailed, “He was smiling. He was like, ‘Man!’” Benjamin additionally defined why he chose not to rap on his newest venture, stating, “I swear, I really wanted to make a rap album, but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time.”

You may see the fan-captured video under.

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