It’s been over a decade since OutKast’s closing headlining present, however the prospects of André 3000 reuniting with Large Boi for one more 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 believe the viewers generally believes that one thing has to final ceaselessly, and I don’t suppose 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 longer term, 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 problem with rapping in an genuine means. “We’ve to be eager to do it,” he mentioned. “It’s onerous for me to make a rap, interval, ? And generally I’m within the perception of ‘Let issues be’ … It’s not like we’re Coca-Cola, the place it’s this system that you may at all times 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 might have been their final hurrah. “I knew after I was, like, 25, that at a sure age I wouldn’t wish to be onstage doing these songs,” he mentioned. “They required a sure power. Truthfully, I’m not a giant fan of trying 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 have been there.”
To all of the OutKast followers who really feel disillusioned, André does have some sympathy, however doesn’t wish 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 probably be like, ‘Yet one more OutKast album.’ [But] I attempt to put myself within the footwear of different individuals, and I’m like, ‘Man, if we ain’t do an OutKast album in 20 years, do y’all actually suppose it’s going to occur now?’”
To that finish, he even sees his Grammy-nominated debut solo album, New Blue Solar, as a comparatively miraculous prevalence. “When New Blue Solar got here out, individuals have 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 suppose that was going to occur? I don’t know, perhaps I simply suppose in another way. 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 preserving himself busy together with his flute-driven work. Final month, he launched a New Blue Solar companion EP dubbed Transferring Day, and in addition contributed a brand new track to the compilation album, TRAИƧA.
In 2025, New Blue Solar will probably be up for Album of the 12 months 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 purpose 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 might.”