André 3000 has responded to LL Cool J‘s not-so-flattering feedback about his debut solo album New Blue Solar.
The ambient instrumental undertaking, partly constructed across the OutKast legend’s flute enjoying, divided followers following its launch final November because of its lack of rapping.
LL was amongst these dissatisfied by the undertaking and shared his brutally sincere ideas on LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s The Store earlier this 12 months.
“Hear, he’s superb. His bars are all the best way up. Not the flute, B. Not the flute,” he stated. “Let’s not misinform ourselves. I don’t wanna hear him do the flute. You wanna hear me do a violin album?”
The 56-year-old additionally urged 3 Stacks to return to rap, saying: “I wanna hear him get with Massive Boi, I would like them to make an OutKast [album] or [for him] to do a solo album. Everytime he does a verse, it’s sufficient materials for an album! He’s so gifted. So it’s like, ‘Come on, B. Not the flute.’ That man must know the reality.”
Throughout his personal look on the YouTube sequence, André 3000 was requested about LL Cool J’s criticism and issued a usually measured and well-mannered response.
“To me, I really feel like if it’s in you — ’trigger I acquired homies my age and older than me that also rap — so if it’s in you, you need to rap till you die. You need to carry out till you die,” he stated.
“However what I’m saying is, what it takes for me to do it, I’m all the time searching for the subsequent. I’m not attempting to uphold a factor that I’ve performed earlier than.”
He added: “In fact, I’ve issues to say now, but when I can’t say them in a recent, modern means, if I really feel like I’m simply hanging onto the identical move that I used to do, it’s not sufficient for me.
“So I can’t speak for one more rapper about what they doing. I simply say, ‘Man, go for it. If it’s in you.’”
André 3000 has been vocal in latest months about his hesistancy to rap. In an interview with GQ late final 12 months, he admitted he doesn’t really feel like he has something attention-grabbing to rap about now that he’s approaching 50 years previous.
“Folks assume, ‘Oh, man, he’s simply sitting on raps or holding these raps hostage.’ I’m like, ‘I ain’t acquired no raps like that,’” he clarified. “It truly typically feels inauthentic for me to rap as a result of I don’t have something to speak about in that means.
André 3000 Comes Clear About Flute Pivot: ‘I Really Don’t Know What I’m Doing’
“I’m 48 years previous, and to not say that age is a factor that dictates what you rap about, however in a means it does. Like, what am I gonna rap about? I gotta get a colonoscopy? My eyesight goes unhealthy?”
On the flip facet, the ATLien has described the flute as an important outlet of inventive expression.
“That is the realest factor that’s coming proper now. To not say that I might by no means [rap] once more, however the [song] title, you already know, ‘I Actually Needed To Make A Rap Album, However This Is Actually The Means The Wind Blew Me This Time’ as a result of this album is about wind and respiration,” he instructed NPR.
“In that means, it’s true. It’s actually blowing me this fashion and I’m blowing flutes and I’m blowing digital devices.”
