André 3000 Reveals The One Reason Why He Has An Instagram Account

André 3000 has opened up about shying away from social media on the topic of Instagram and Facebook.

The OutKast legend appeared at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France last week and sat down for a conversation with Meta’s Alvin Bowles.

During their conversation, 3 Stacks revealed he doesn’t personally use his Instagram account and detailed why he has one in the first place.

“I’ve never had a Facebook account,” he said on stage, according to The Drum. “I only have Instagram to prevent people from stealing my name, but I’ve never posted anything.”

André 3000’s Instagram account has over 938,000 followers and has mostly been used to promote his debut album New Blue Sun, which was released in November.

Speaking to GQ at the end of last year, he opened up about having social anxiety.

“And it never goes away,” he said. “It’s not like a cure-all kind of thing. It just becomes a part of life and you just have to take a deep breath, smile a little bit, and just get through it for tomorrow. That’s the best I can say.”

André 3000 added that he’s spoken to his therapist about it, who told him that his gift lives close to the thing that makes him unhappy.

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“He was like, ‘Well, son, the thing that makes your art what it is, is the thing that you don’t like either,’” he said. “So it’s like, ‘Fuck, what am I going to do?”

André 3000 talked about returning to the public eye and the dilemma he had between promoting New Blue Sun or staying out of the spotlight.

“That’s the problem. The balance, like, I do have an urge because I wanna create things. I’m happiest when I’m creating things,” he said.

“And I was talking to my manager and publicist, I had to really ask myself: ‘Do you wanna possibly be famous again?’ Like, ‘Do you wanna turn it up again?’ And I was like, ‘Uh, well, I’ll just put the record out and just don’t do any press for it or anything like that.’

“But then it’s kinda a disservice to the music because I want people to check it out, I want people to hear it. I had to find some balance.”