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Andre 3000 reveals he auditioned for — but didn’t get — Ludacris’ role in the Fast and Furious series in a bonus interview from the rapper/flutist’s recent appearance on The Late Show. Taking the soul-bearing “Colbert Questionert” back in January, the late-night host asked the OutKast legend what his favorite …

I walked into Brooklyn’s Crown Hill Theatre wondering what kind of set to expect at the first stop of André 3000’s New Blue Sun tour. I had never been to the Crown Heights venue; I didn’t know whether he would be on a bare stage or have chairs arranged in …

André 3000 brought his latest studio album, New Blue Sun, to the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The performance was nearly as long as the song itself as the musician performed “That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That …

Andre 3000 sits down with Questlove for a wide-ranging chat about a variety of topics — including the rapper’s standout instrumental LP New Blue Sun — in the latest episode of the Roots drummer’s Questlove Supreme podcast. Over the hour-long interview — which Questlove called “two friends, two colleagues having …

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Game sniped at Jay-Z with the line: “You 38 and still rappin’? Ugh!” from his 2006 track “It’s Okay (One Blood).” Yet some of this era’s biggest rap heroes are nearing — and above — forty. A “Tale Of The Tape” scene in …

There have been hundreds upon hundreds of ambient music albums released this year, but there’s only one released by an elite-tier rapper with a 13-times-Platinum record under his overalls. In the 16 years since the tectonic-shifting Outkast went on hiatus, fans of the duo’s André 3000 have been clamoring for …

Last week, the news that André 3000 would be releasing an album of instrumental flute jams was greeted with enough head-scratching to draw blood. But don’t tell that to Jake Fridkis, who plays principal flute with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. If you’ve heard DJ Khaled and Drake’s “No Secret” …

L.A.-based musician Matthew “Matthewdavid” McQueen is credited on Andre 3000’s debut solo album, New Blue Sun, as providing “mycelial electronics.” The 39-year-old founder of the record label and music collective Leaving released Mycelium Music in April, an album inspired by the interconnected networks of fungi and produced in large part …

I’m sorry, Ms. Jackson, but André 3000 still really doesn’t feel like rapping. After announcing an album of instrumental flute music — which is notably not the rap album people might have expected from him — the musician opened up about his decision to switch up his style. In a …

Calls for André 3000 to release a solo record, or another recording with Outkast, have followed the musician for nearly two decades. It’s been 17 years since the last Outkast album, and the expectations around his musical output have only grown in that time — meanwhile, he has been roaming …