Andre 3000 evaluates Kid Cudi’s Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven and discusses his Erykah Badu duet “Hello” during an interview with Billboard.
The OutKast artist says that the song came about when he and Seven, his son with Badu, were trying to find songs about phones and happened across The Isley Brothers’ 1974 cover of Todd Rundgren’s “Hello, It’s Me.”
“Ron Isley repeats the phrase, ‘Hello, hello’ as if he was answering the phone,’” Andre 3000 says during the Billboard interview. “I told Erykah, ‘You should make this into a new song and get somebody to rap on it.’ She was like, ‘Well, you should rap on it.’ I’m happy it happened. It was a great reunion, because I don’t think people have heard a song from us in ages.”
Andre 3000 also says that he’s making new music while acting.
“It kind of puts you in the place where you’re fiending to do music,” says Andre 3000 of working on working on television and film projects. He appears on the second season of American Crime, which is set to premiere today (January 6). “I’ve been holding [back] for a long time,” Andre 3000 continues, “so now I’m really interested in figuring out some type of music to do. I’m always recording.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Andre 3000 says he’s listening to a wide range of music.
“I always listen to a lot of jazz, a lot of Thelonious Monk,” Andre 3000 says. “The new Kid Cudi album [Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven] is awesome to me. That’s kind of like the most recent thing that I think is really great. But other than that I’ve kind of just been working in the studio and listening to what I’m doing.”
Kid Cudi’s Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven got two out of five Xs in its HipHopDX review.
For additional coverage of Andre 3000, who evaluates Kid Cudi’s Speedin’ Bullet 2 Heaven and discusses his Erykah Badu duet “Hello,” watch the following DX Daily:
Cudi has always been the worst.
I’ll listen to the new Cudi joint against just outta respect for 3 stacks but man that shit sounded like filth the first time I played it thru
andre stays ready on the “im not doing music” to “im making music all the time” shit…i love outkast and all but im all for big boi..his 2 solo records and the big grams project are dope..i guarantee if 3000 drops an album it wont be rap i can tell u that.
I thought I was the only person fuccin wit sbth
Andre! We need some new sht from you.
Outa this world……
The new Kid Cudi is the definition of trash
Andre’s cosign nullifies all of your opinions on Speedin’ Bullet to Heaven
– no one
Andre lately to have a bad taste of new music later
it’s still a shitty album
kid cudi confused! is the best song i ve heard in ages.
I wouldn’t check out any fuckin kid cudi’s album even though 3000 Andres cosigned it..cuz I know it’s gonna always be some abstract experimental wack shit.