Author and critic Nelson George met Andre 3000 of Outkast and had asked him about new music, but Andre expressed no interest in putting out a collection of new songs. His reason is very simple: “You write about what happens to you. Last week I got glasses. That was the big that happened to me. I don’t think people want records about my new glasses”. George believes middle-aged rapper is an oxymoron: "The youthful concerns of hip hop in the ‘90s, like the youthful concerns of trap music now, are very much tied into hot cars, fly girls and guys, the drugs of the moment, and the most current slang. Hip Hop freezes the MC, and the audience, in time because it’s composed of very specific references tied to its moment of creation. Its contemporary nature is a great strength, but a weakness too".

OutKast's André 3000 is coming to the TV-screen again - he is one of the four main characters from 'Dispatches From Elsewhere', a new TV show for AMC co-created by Jason Segal. The show follows four individuals who play a game that promises to expose new realities behind everyday life. The show received a boost of publicity when André 3000 was filmed playing the flute at an airport in Philadelphia, where the show was filmed.

"I maybe had smoked a joint and then went in the booth and I was kinda out of it, and I just started rapping with my normal voice, like my speaking voice, and Ric said 'That's it!' And that was it" - Andre 3000 tells Rick Rubin in a Broken Records podcast about how he struggled […]

Outkast's André 3000 will star in a new 10-part series 'Dispatches From Elsewhere', with the drama series following “a group of people who stumble onto a puzzle hiding behind everyday life and discover an ever-deepening mystery”, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. In other music/TV related news, All Hip Hop reports Alicia Keys has partnered with the production […]

Outkast's Andre 3000 and Lizzo made the flute a star of the year. "They might be one of the world’s oldest-known pieces of kit for bashing out a tune on but their time is now", Guardian says in their humorous article about flute in pop music. They aren't the first - Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson […]

The follow-up to last year’s 'Oxnard', 'Ventura' is due out April 12, and it features appearances from André 3000, Smokey Robinson, Brandy, the Late Nate Dogg, and more. Pitchfork...

Andre 3000 has dropped a pair of songs in honor of mothers all over. The Mother's Day Anthems are called 'Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)' and 'Look Ma No Hands'. 'Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)' has a very Elton John-esque vibe, with the former OutKast rhymester singing a somber tune. 'Look Ma No Hands' is […]