It’s been over a decade since OutKast’s last headlining present, however the prospects of André 3000 reuniting with Large Boi for an additional reunion seem fairly dim. In a brand new interview, the rapper-turned-flutist has shot down the concept of OutKast making new music or touring any time quickly, saying, “I feel the viewers typically believes that one thing has to final without end, and I don’t assume that.”
André made these feedback throughout a current interview with Rolling Stone, when he was requested about his mindset relating to new OutKast music. “I’ll say perhaps 10, 15 years in the past, in my thoughts, I assumed an OutKast album would occur,” he defined. “I don’t know the long run, however I can say that we’re additional away from it than we’ve ever been.”
Persevering with, André asserted that “it’s a chemistry factor,” after which alluded to his current difficulty with rapping in an genuine manner. “We’ve got to be desirous to do it,” he mentioned. “It’s exhausting for me to make a rap, interval, you realize? And typically I’m within the perception of ‘Let issues be’ … It’s not like we’re Coca-Cola, the place it’s this components you can all the time press a button and it’ll occur.”
Talking about the opportunity of one other OutKast tour (err, lack thereof), André defined that the duo’s 2014 reunion tour could have been their final hurrah. “I knew once I was, like, 25, that at a sure age I wouldn’t need to be onstage doing these songs,” he mentioned. “They required a sure power. Truthfully, I’m not a giant fan of wanting again. I’m simply not. I’m grateful for the whole lot that’s occurred, nevertheless it was a time. To me, that’s what it’s. That was a good time, and I want y’all had been there.”
To all of the OutKast followers who really feel disenchanted, André does have some sympathy, however doesn’t need to get any hopes up. “I don’t blame the fan for wanting what they’ve identified,” he mentioned. “I do know, for the remainder of my life, individuals will likely be like, ‘Another OutKast album.’ [But] I attempt to put myself within the sneakers of different individuals, and I’m like, ‘Man, if we ain’t do an OutKast album in 20 years, do y’all actually assume it’s going to occur now?’”
To that finish, he even sees his Grammy-nominated debut solo album, New Blue Sun, as a comparatively miraculous incidence. “When New Blue Solar got here out, individuals had been like, ‘Man, that is his first solo album in 17 years,’” he mentioned. “If an individual hasn’t given you a solo album in 17 years, do you actually assume that was going to occur? I don’t know, perhaps I simply assume otherwise. I do know I wouldn’t be sitting round ready.”
However aside from reflecting again in interviews — like this one, and one other he did with Nardwuar earlier this week — André is conserving himself busy along with his flute-driven work. Final month, he launched a New Blue Solar companion EP dubbed Shifting Day, and in addition contributed a brand new track to the compilation album, TRAИƧA.
In 2025, New Blue Solar will likely be up for Album of the Yr on the 2025 Grammys. In André’s eyes, simply the nomination alone is a feat. “We’ve received already, in our head… as a result of individuals will now test it out. That was my aim after we recorded it and put it out,” he informed Rolling Stone, including “I do hope they allow us to carry out on the Grammys. That may be killer if we may.”
