He gave me my first job, actually, screen-printing shirts in his shop in Atlanta. André and I have met up a handful of times in recent weeks to work out the details of this GQ Style project, and it’s always an experience. He showed up for one conversation in the lobby of the Mercer Hotel moving slowly and holding a plastic CVS bag. I thought he’d hurt his knee, but it turned out he was moving cautiously because he was experiencing severe nausea. He had the bag on him in case he had to barf.
One of the greatest rappers of all time has returned with an album of instrumental improvised jazz straight out of the Philip Glass school of music. This, even though millions of hip-hop fans are still hungry to hear André rhyme. As you wrap your head around “New Blue Sun,” which drops Friday, you will surely find yourself saying, “Why isn’t he rapping?
He also featured in a guest verse on “Where’s the andre 3000 sober Catch” from James Blake’s album Assume Form. Kodak Black‘s behavior has concerned fans since he appeared on Kai Cenat‘s livestream early in November, but in a recent Instagram Live, he confirms it’s because he’s “never sober.” “For what? I’m too young to die sober.” This admission comes after podcaster Wallo and Gillie Da Kid attempted to spread words of encouragement his way. Financially, are you in a place where money doesn’t affect your decisions about releasing music?
I didn’t notice it until I became an entertainer. I don’t know if it’s the shock of all kind of people coming up to you, or the expectations, but I got to this place where it was hard for me to be in public without feeling watched or really nervous. Rappers who take years, even decades, between albums are often met with heightened anticipation despite their absence. Mos Def (who now goes by Yasiin Bey) and Talib Kweli formed their duo Black Star in 1996, when both men were in their early 20s, before launching successful solo careers. They reunited for the 2022 album “No Fear of Time,” promoting it with performances on “Saturday Night Live.” Rolling Stone’s Will Dukes, in a five-star review, called the album “searingly relevant” 24 years after the duo’s debut album. The photo quickly went viral and it didn’t take long for Green to be on the receiving end of backlash.
And how did that lead you to the bootleg tees? As you get older, the people you love pop back up. I was going through an Anita Baker phase, and I started trying to buy a T-shirt. So I go on the Internet and I find this site that had shirts with photos of Anita on them. Then when I got ’em in the mail, they were like—the part of Sober living house the shirt where the picture was printed on there was so hard. I’d just meet new people and I would freak out or have to leave.
Word has it that Ice Cold hasn’t touched a mind-altering substance for nearly two decades. Andre decided to make the change after partying too hard in his younger days. “I actually looked in the mirror and saw myself deteriorating,” Andre 3000 told “VIBE” in 2012. “I was like, ‘Man, we’re doing too much—way too much.” He is also a vegetarian.
If you have an excess of anything, it becomes strange. “I don’t do drugs. Period.” Joe Budden proclaimed in a 2013 interview with ThisIs50.com. “Some people can function with drugs, I’m just dysfunctional and self-destructive,” the Slaughterhouse rapper explained.
He penned lyrics about his upbringing and acknowledged the Confederate past and its impact on Black Americans. He also said he recognized why people were upset with his previous remarks. Later, on his track “To Whom It May Concern,” Yela wrestled with his love of the Southern flag and its violent history. Phantogram revealed in an interview with Variance Magazine in February 2014 that they plan to release an EP with Big Boi.82 The resulting album Big Grams was released in September 2015.
“I was infatuated with gang life.” Lecrae told Complex magazine. “I tried pretty much every drug there was to try, except for heroin and crack. I was out there.” Although he lives a sober lifestyle today, he doesn’t consider drinking as a sin. “I ain’t got nothing against you if you wanna throw one back,” as he told Sway on Sway In The Morning. Whether they’re mentioned on the radio, seen in music videos, or smuggled into concerts, drugs are pretty much unavoidable in the genre. Weed, lean, pills, coke, booze, shrooms, you name it, dope’s not to hard to find. Many rappers, like Juicy J or Lil Wayne, have made it clear in their music that they love getting fucked up.
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