André 3000 has promised that he will be releasing more new music in 2025.
3 Stacks released his debut solo album New Blue Sun last November following an almost 20-year wait for a project from the OutKast legend.
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But in an interview with Amazon Music at Tyler, The Creator‘s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival this past weekend, André hinted that fans won’t have to endure the same lengthy wait for a follow-up album.
When asked about his plans for next year, he said: “New music, for sure. New ways to distribute and express. I don’t wanna pinpoint what it is but I just wanna express more.”
The 49-year-old did not divulge whether he would continue to play the flute or return to rap, but given that he has frequently admitted that he is not inspired to write lyrics, partly due to his age, the latter seems unlikely.
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André 3000 previously confirmed that he was roughly halfway through finishing his next album.
“Oh, for sure,” he said in an interview with Touré when asked if a new project is in the works. “At this point, I’m just trying to keep the momentum. There’s such a thing as creative momentum. The next stuff is very interesting, too. We’re almost a third — or halfway — into it.”
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As for a potential release date, he said: “I don’t know when it will be ready. Who knows.”
3 Stacks also revealed during that interview that New Blue Sun doesn’t actually count towards his contract with Epic Records, despite it being nominated for Album of the Year at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
“They congratulated me on the process, they congratulated me on what the work was, but contractually, it’s very interesting. My label will not count this album against my contract — this is as a solo artist,” he said.
“I didn’t understand it at first and we tried to find ways around it, but I understand it in a way, too,” he continued. “My attorney explained it in this way: it was invented in the ’70s maybe, when artists were trying to get out of their deals so they were just pretty much turning in anything.”
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He continued: “And so you have to have some type of legal stipulation that stops you from doing that. It’s something where it says, ‘The next recording has to be 90 percent like the recording before it.’ You see what I’m saying?! It’s in everybody’s deal, they don’t know it ’cause most people are not doing this kind of thing.
“It stops you from turning in 10 tracks of handclaps and saying, ‘This is my album.’ And I get it! But Sylvia and the team, they’ve been so supportive. They know I’m not turning in an a handclap back — they get it. But as a business, this is the stance that they took.”
