André 3000 has hit back at his rap peers who have criticized his comments about rapping over the age of 40.
In a cover story interview for Crack Magazine, the OutKast legend said: “I’ve heard some rappers reply to what I’ve said about age, and I have to ask, ‘What are you rapping about?’
“Some are the best braggadocious rappers in the world, and we love them for that — but it’s so much easier to do that for the rest of your life. I don’t necessarily rap like that. Our formulas are different.”
3 Stacks continued to defend his stance while responding to an unnamed critic: “He doesn’t know what it takes for me to do what I do. I don’t know what it takes for him to say the same thing over and over again and still keep it creative. But I love him for doing it.”
André 3000 had previously implied that rap is a young man’s game, telling GQ: “I’m 48 years old. And not to say that age is a thing that dictates what you rap about, but in a way it does. And things that happen in my life, like, what are you talking about? ‘I got to go get a colonoscopy.’ What are you rapping about? ‘My eyesight is going bad.’”
His comments were met with both disappointment and disagreement from fans and fellow rappers alike, with Lil Wayne calling them “depressing.”
“I read a depressing quote or two from someone I respect a lot in music,” Weezy said on his Apple Music show Young Money Radio last year. “And they were asked, ‘Why you ain’t been doing music?’ or whatever. And they was like, ‘Man, what I’ma talk about? I’m in my 40s. What am I supposed to talk about?’
“I was like wow, that was so depressing. I’m like, I have everything to talk about!”
The LOX also urged the Love Below lyricist to pick up his notepad and head back into the booth.
Speaking on The Breakfast Club, Sheek Louch said: “Nah, so much to talk about, Dre. It’s a lot, man. Just how you word it and put it. Of course, we not talking about being in the hallways or trapping and all that, but it’s a lot. Let us know what you been going through.”
Styles P then chimed in and said: “Rap about his travels. He’s one of the greatest to ever do it. He could’ve rapped over the flute beats, straight up. I think rapping about what is he gonna rap about is a good point-of-view. It gives different people different perspectives.”
Okay, we got it. He doesn’t want to rap, he better play the flute, he’s not interested. Cool. Now get the fuck out of the culture and stop telling shit on every corner, you artsy fuckhead. Blow your flute, bitch and leave rap alone.
Boy which yo mouth when you talk about the Dre put some respect on this legend
Stop being such a hater, lol))
He doesn’t offend the culture even, you are plain wrong.
He just says what he feels is true. I do agree that there’s no problem at all with rapping at an older age, and it all depends on the perspective chosen. I believe, Andre may be a bit stuck with his.
wishing him to broaden his worldview and get back into the pen game.
I dont think Andre understands the value of experience. Nas just dropped 6(!) Albums with Hit Boy and there was so many good stories on there we never would have heard or learned from if he didnt make it. I dont understand why Andre dont understand that. Its like he thinks rap is only about bars and being fly when he has literally spent his entire career proving its not. Of youre scared, say youre scared Dre.
Nas and Andre 3000 are two very different artists. Nas has always been introspective on his songs, and now, he’s rapping mostly on nostalgia, which is dope,, but that’s just not Andre’s lane. Outkast’s songs were rapping about them in the moment.
Outkast has a bunch of songs about their past. Get outta here.
the f aggot blog posts a f aggot story acting like a black man should just pop himself in the head at 40. Nah just gone pop bendrick melon cocksuckers. all y’all worthless homos. Never have a WH0RE for a momma you turn out like fruity 3000 pretending to play the autofluter
Who hurt you?
Music is timeless without an age limit. 3000 is ridiculous with his age comment about rap. Why single out rap when no other music genre has an age limit???
Music is but hip hop is not. It’s always been a young man’s game. Most of hip hop’s biggest hits the last 25 years are for the club or the streets, and that’s just not aligning with the vision of some 50-year-old man.
You sound dumb. Everything evolves. Plenty of legends doing it better than the young guys.
I dont agree with this stupid age shit. When I was in my teens in the 90s rap music was very new and nobody expected it to last or get commercial. So if someone grew up knowing nothing but rap, WTF do you expect them to listen to in their 40s or 50s ? Rap is all thry know. Nobody told Frank Sinatra or Barry White to stop singing at age 60. Go find you a young rapper if ya sont like it. Back in the day nobody liked kriss kross or lil bow wow so fuck all that cap.
He’s just telling the truth. Don’t nobody want to hear old dudes rapping about the same shit they were 20 years ago. About the only person who has pulled that off was $short. But it’s like you lose that edge the older you get, and it becomes like a point of being a legacy act, which is fine, but if he doesn’t want to be that, more power to him. The energy is with the youth. All I’d say to them is to step their game up because their top rappers are wack.
I think Andre is scared to rap. Because to say there’s nothing to rap about as wide as this world is, is absolute BS. Rap ain’t just for kids, anymore than Rock, Jazz or Country is. He’s 49 not 89, ffs.
I disagree with him overall, but I agree about being able to rap nonsense is easier to do for longer. When someone can rap about real life with the same level of skill, that’s the separation.
i want to like Andre 3k but i can see why outcast hasn’t but out an album so smug an arrogant
i want to like Andre 3k but i can see why Outkast hasn’t but out an new album..he is so smug an arrogant.
If he ain’t feeling it he ain’t feeling it. You want him to half azz it?
That Erykah Badu Pussy still got him thinking he can play the flute. That Badu Pussy must be something else. Got Andre 3000 thinking he can play the flute, got Jay Electronica thinking he’s a spiritual mystic and the greatest rapper of all time even though he has just one album that nobody listened to. Hell even Common gotta little out there when he was with Badu, luckily he went back to the normal Common.
Andre 3000 didnt really pair himself up with rappers that could challenge his pen or spark his brain creatively. Never did a song with Nas, Kendrick, Common, Ice Cube, Talib Kweli, Lupe Fiasco, Little Brother, etc. this is why he lost his motivation to rap.