André 3000 Reflects on His Chemistry With Big Boi and Possibility of New OutKast Album
“We’re totally different people,” he told Hanif Abdurraqib in a new interview.
André 3000 recently opened up about the possibility of a new OutKast album, touching on his evolving chemistry with Big Boi and how that affects their process of creating music.
Speaking to Hanif Abdurraqib for Bitter Southerner, the hip-hop legend explained that he and Big Boi will always have their personal relationship regardless of whether OutKast will ever reunite. “We cool, man. That’s my homie forever. We were friends before doing music,” 3 Stacks said, noting that “people always ask about me and Big Boi.”
“People ask, so will there be another OutKast album? I really can’t say, man,” he added. “I do realize that our chemistries have changed. We’re different people. We’re totally different people. Not to say that we won’t be able to make any kind of music, but I think, yeah, people have to realize, like even in relationships, man, husband and wife, chemistry should change after a while. And I think people think there’s this one thing that has to stay a way, but we are ever-changing, man.”
André also touched on his debut studio album New Blue Sun — an instrumental effort that took listeners by surprise with the lack of bars. He shared that although he knows “these ain’t bangers” and that it didn’t go No. 1 on the charts, acclaim wasn’t the point of releasing the record. “But I just want people to hear and to see and feel the movement, to see and feel the change, the journey of it. You know what I mean?” he stated. “To me, that’s the biggest story. If I’m on the outside looking in, how do you come from this to this? You know what I mean? I want people to see that part.”
