Why Outkast made André 3000 really feel like he was “selling out”

Outkast’s André 3000 has at all times had creative integrity and has at all times proven himself to be nothing however a musician within the purest type of the phrase. Nevertheless, on one event, the Atlanta rapper (actual identify André Benjamin) felt like he was promoting himself out.

André 3000 and Big Boi (actual identify Antwan Patton) as Outkast had been an enormous hit within the late Nineteen Nineties and 2000s. With a list of eclectic authentic music that seemed like nothing else within the mainstream, their artistic genius set them other than everybody else.

Nevertheless, within the eyes of Benjamin, the music they made throughout their heyday was consultant of how they had been creatively minded throughout that particular interval of their lives. As such, when the duo disbanded in 2006, Benjamin and Patton left their music as a time capsule for music lovers.

However, in 2014, the duo went on a reunion tour that André 3000 felt was extremely inauthentic. To him, it was a determined try and revive one thing from the previous and recreate what that they had artistically preserved.

After eight years of inactivity, the duo rejoined forces and carried out a string of exhibits, together with a headline slot at Bestival. Nevertheless, to make an announcement, André wore a price ticket studying ‘sold’ at every occasion.

Talking to trend and music journal The Fader, Benjamin disclosed, “I felt weird about going out onstage and doing it again. I felt people would be like, ‘Y’all are doing all these festivals, y’all are just doing it for money. I felt like a sell-out, honestly.”

He continued, “I was like, if I’m in on the joke I’ll feel cool about it. I’m 39, I got a 17-year-old kid, and I gotta support certain things. So I felt like there was a certain sell-out in a way because I didn’t wanna do it – I knew I was doing it for a reason. So maybe if I’m telling people, ‘I am selling out’ then it’s not as bad as pretending.”

Actually, Benjamin admitted that he felt he needed to ship a message along with his clothes as a result of he couldn’t along with his previous music, stating, “I didn’t wanna do the tour. We hadn’t performed in ten years. It was old songs. I’m like, how am I gonna present these songs? I don’t have nothing new to say. So I was like, maybe I can start saying new stuff while doing these old songs.”

You possibly can watch Outkast acting at Bestival in 2014 under.