{"id":974095,"date":"2019-12-17T15:11:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=928207"},"modified":"2019-12-17T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:11:39","slug":"stop-asking-andre-3000-about-releasing-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/stop-asking-andre-3000-about-releasing-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Asking Andr\u00e9 3000 About Releasing New Music!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andr\u00e9 3000<\/a> isn\u2019t dropping a solo album. In fact, Andr\u00e9 3000 might never release another body of music. That\u2019s fine. He shouldn\u2019t. Because expecting a 44-year-old man that\u2019s given the world six Outkast<\/a> albums, a Dungeon Family compilation, a Cartoon Network TV show, the second best part of the 2008 Will Ferrell comedy Semi-Pro<\/em>, not to mention the \u201cWalk It Out\u201d freestyle to do even more is selfish. What more do y\u2019all expect of this man?<\/p>\n

In an interview on the Broken Record podcast<\/a>, Rick Rubin asks Andr\u00e9 what seemingly everyone asks Andr\u00e9: for any new information regarding the recording process of new Andr\u00e9 3000 music. That\u2019s when the podcast interview swerves into a grim story of the crippling anxiety we\u2019ve all forced one of the greatest rappers alive to face, thanks to our incessant prodding for him to release a solo album.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t been making much music, man. My focus is not there. My confidence is not there,\u201d he said. \u201cI tinker a lot. I\u2019ll just go to a piano and sit my iPhone down and just record what I\u2019m doing. Move my fingers around and whatever happens, but I haven\u2019t been motivated to do a serious project. I\u2019d like to, but it\u2019s just not coming. In my own self I\u2019m trying to figure out where do I sit? I don\u2019t even know what I am and maybe I\u2019m nothing. Maybe I\u2019m not supposed to be anything. Maybe my history is kind of handicapping in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, Andr\u00e9 shared that the constant dissection of his music and hyperbolic critical analysis of his every move is one of the reasons he\u2019s abstained from releasing a larger body of work outside of his occasional features. \u201cAny little thing I put out, it\u2019s instantly attacked, not in a good or bad way,\u201d he continued. \u201cPeople nitpick it with a fine-tooth comb. \u2018Oh, he said that word!\u2019 And that\u2019s not a great place to create from and it makes you draw back. Maybe I don\u2019t have the confidence that I want, or the space to experiment like I used too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In conclusion, Andr\u00e9 3000 is a kind, gentle, creative soul that\u2019s been marred by our collective capitalist greed. Let this man play his bass clarinet across America in peace.<\/p>\n

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Andr\u00e9 3000 isn\u2019t dropping a solo album. In fact, Andr\u00e9 3000 might never release another body of music. That\u2019s fine. He shouldn\u2019t. Because expecting a 44-year-old man that\u2019s given the world six Outkast albums, a Dungeon Family compilation, a Cartoon Network TV show, the second best part of the 2008 Will Ferrell comedy Semi-Pro, not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 21:42:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}