Andre 3000, one half of OutKast, spoke about the Atlanta duo’s twentieth anniversary tour at the opening of his art show at Art Basel in Miami.
“Honestly, just, you know—I didn’t wanna do the tour.” Andre 3000 says in an article posted by FADER yesterday (December 3). “ We hadn’t performed in 10 years. It was old songs. I’m like, ‘How am I gonna present these songs? I don’t have nothing new to say.’ So I was like, ‘Maybe I can start saying new stuff while doing these old songs.’ It became a theme where I was more excited about this than the actual show. This is fun, running out in these.”
The Art Basel show, “I feel ya: SCAD + Andre 3000 Benjamin,” features 47 jumpsuits that Andre 3000 made for the recent OutKast tour, in conjunction with the Savannah College of Art and Design.
In the FADER article, Andre 3000 explains to musician Nicolas Jaar that he decided to don the jumpsuits after feeling like he bombed at the first reunion date at Coachella.
“My first Coachella show, which was a horrible show, I wore something like [my outfit right now],” Andre 3000 says. “I didn’t know what to wear on stage, so it was my overalls.”
Andre 3000 started wearing the jumpsuits, which featured messages that ranged from socially conscious to humorous.
“Across cultures darker people suffer most. Why?” one suit says.
He says that the stage was a better venue for his ideas than social media.
“I live my life out on stage and everywhere else,” he says. “I don’t necessarily have to tweet it out. But I felt like it was cool that I could say crazy thoughts or fun stuff. And I think it actually gets more attention because it is what it is instead of tweeting it.”
He says he thought the tour might be perceived as a cash grab.
“I felt weird about going out on stage and doing it again,” Andre 3000 says. “I felt like people would be like, ‘Y’all are doing all these festivals, y’all are just doing it for money.’ And I felt like a sell-out, honestly. So I was like, if I’m in on the joke, I’ll feel cool about it.”
Andre 3000 has stated there are no plans for an OutKast album. In August, he said he did the tour to support Big Boi and the young fans.
“Honestly, I never planned to go onstage again in that way,” he said at the time. “If I feel like I’m getting to a place where it’s mimicking or a caricature, I just want to move on. But I felt like: Let me do it now ’cause these kids [in the audience], it feels good to know that they’re happy. I really don’t actually get anything from performing. I feel good in being able to look at Big Boi and say, ‘Hey, man, we did it.’ Big Boi’s got these great records on his own, but this means something else for him..”
Stupid hipster
that’s right skinny jean faggots
Lost interest in anything Andre has to say. I think his ego has gotten too out of control and he thinks he’s more important than everyone and everything else.
Sadly I agree.
Can’t a man just grow up…see this is what happens when a rapper simply grows up and dosen’t mind moving forward into just being a person instead of continuing to remain a star…(ie. L.Hill)
@ AIC Yes you can grow up and do other things but dont string your fans and your partner along year after year. Dont’ come out later and say you didnt want to do a tour. If he didnt want to do it he shouldn’t have done it.
Also, how about preparing yourself to performe so you don’t short change the people who paid good money to come see you. I used to be a big fan or dre but i’m about done with his nonsense. It’s the truth when the say “never meet your heroes”
fuck me up the ass andre
C’mon 3000…..I too used to be a 3000 fan but this is bs. I
Anybody remember “git up, git out” or “Player’s Ball”?? Man, what the fuck happened to these clowns??
lmao this nigga is a cornball. just retire already.
atliens is my shit tho
evolution is a great thing for any artist or person. but to reach a point where you’re looking down on your fans and supporters is pretty sad. I get it when artists say they don’t wanna be jukeboxes–playing the same handfulla songs over and over, but then if that’s the case, don’t comeback at all. if you hate this thing so much then leave it be.
I’d rather be sitting here now going “whatever happened to Dre” than going “mang when did Dre turn into such dick?!”
Funny thing is I think it’s this Hendrix thing going to his head. Hendrix once said he was sick and tired of playing Purple Rain and Foxy Lady over and over… and the songs weren’t even that old by that point. He just wanted to always be playing new stuff whether people dug it or not.
Andre is on that “i’m an artist” tip now…
like i said earlier, if it’s that serious, I’ll bump my kast catalog and leave you the hell along, but you got to get up and get out with that BS, Benjamin.
Fall back bro, he not looking down on the fans he just staying true to himself.. dude been enlightened for the longest.. go and bump that ‘Kast catalog of yours and brush up on your 3Stacks.. dude has always neen an “artist”
FOH with the sob story
LOL Hendrix made Purple Haze, not Purple Rain doggy
This is a straight up bitch move, both for the fans that paid to see them and for poor Big Boi who wants to rock arenas and make $$$ of a catalog that’s half his. If he wants to say “my shirt was the show you sheeple” after the tour is over straight up he has 0 artistic integrity left. If he actually believed that he should’ve never done the shows. He lost a few fans with this shit.
He doesn’t owe fans shit. Would you be quick to jump on stage right after your parents both died? stfu
This dude just cannot stop killing his fans dreams. damn. Fuck it, Big Boi hard at work.
man, something really must have happened between those two, i guess we’ll never know.
so corny. he only did it to get paid and the only joy he got out of it was wearing those lame jumpsuits
Fuck Andre for thinking hes so much better than his fans for having never being on facebook, twitter or instagram. The real reason he ain’t be on social media is he can’t face the constructive criticism and truth.
If you felt like a sell out its because you are one! No one forced you to do it.
I was gonna say how he’s lame, but let’s be real. If enough idiots will buy tickets and you get money to perform on stage, any smart nigga would do the same lol. Bitches get rich because we put money in their pocket.
he cant have it both ways. he took the money so hes a sell out!
Exactly. As a fan i’m getting tired of this old act….either stop doing music or come back full force, DAMN.