Andre 3000: portrait of an artist re-claiming his life
I can see why the one-time Outkast rapper’s latest move has his audience confounded, but his new album’s a game-changer.
In the video above, I get into Andre 3000’s new surprise instrumental flute album. I also defended it on Twitter:
For the full context, those are all responses to this #Dumbshit tweet. I have a ton of respect for DJ Vlad as a mogul who built a YouTube empire. Yes, I think he focuses way too much on salacious garbage. I still watch his interviews fairly often. I even link to one below. But he’s way off on that tweet.
I do understand why Andre’s fans would feel ruffled, though. “Friend of the show” James Brown is actually angry about Andre’s new album, but because we decided to be dumbasses, we didn’t record our conversation about it. Listen to Jame’s take, which is far more concise and to-the-point than mine:
This tweet is also interesting (from earlier this year, before the public new Andre’s album was on the way):
I would also recommend: