André 3000 responds to LL Cool J’s desire for him to do another rap album: “I’m not trying to uphold a thing that I’ve done before”

On the finish of final yr, André 3000 launched his debut solo album, which was instrumental, and featured André closely on his instrument of selection – the flute. LL Cool J revealed that he would’ve most well-liked to listen to André get again to his roots: “I wanna hear him get with Massive Boi, I would like them to make an OutKast [album] or to do a solo album. Each time 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.”

Chatting with NPR, André revealed that the album was a very long time coming, just because he’s unwilling to launch a mission until he actually believes in it – that, and he is not the quickest in the case of crafting songs. LL Cool J disagreed that André has nothing to say. “Once you had been 14, you weren’t rapping about pubescent progress spurts. So, why you must become old and discuss prostate?” Referencing the notion you can run out of issues to say, he addeed: “With all due respect, I disagree with that as a result of he has it in him.”

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In response to LL Cool J’s feedback, André stated: “To me, I really feel like if it’s in you – trigger I received homies my age and older than me that also rap – if it’s in you, you must rap till you die. It is best to carry out till you die. However what I’m saying is, what it takes for me to do it, I’m at all times on the lookout for the subsequent. I’m not attempting to uphold a factor that I’ve performed earlier than.”

He provides that this does not rule out the longer term prospect of a rap album, however he simply is not at a degree the place he needs to degree up his sport: “After all, I’ve issues to say now, but when I can’t say them in a contemporary, progressive approach, if I really feel like I’m simply hanging onto the identical stream that I used to do, it’s not sufficient for me. So I can’t speak for an additional rapper about what they doing. I simply say, ‘Man, go for it. If it’s in you.’”